Northern Trails

This spring, I’ll have been a steelhead angler for 50 years. My very first steelhead—a lake-run form of rainbow trout—was hooked and landed when I...

Walk through any tackle shop and you will find an impressive array of lures, hooks, and fish attractors. All can catch fish, and the most...

There was a time when hunting and fishing equaled survival. Having no dried meat or smoked fish over a winter would often mean starvation. So,...

Lake Superior has an expansive and healthy fishery with something for almost everyone. Yet the two species most available to anglers on the North Shore...

Anglers who began their ice fishing in the 1960s and ‘70s had a very limited array of tools to work with. The augers were basic—if...

Buying Christmas gifts for the person who seems to have everything can be a real challenge. Especially if that person isn’t one for expressing what...

The boat was moving slowly over the shallow water, as I guided the trolling motor via the foot control along the edge of a reed...

The month of August was a difficult one for this writer and his family. My dear mother Nora Marlo Ellis died early on August 14,...