The big news at Shaver Lake is the 24.48-pound brown trout landed by Steve Jones of Clovis trolling a pink hoochie behind a 6-inch dodger while targeting kokanee. The fish succumbed after a 30-minute ...

Brian Klice of Cuba, N.Y., held on for the grand prize win in the Spring Lake Ontario Counties Trout and Salmon Derby.

Poteshman said they trolling a watermelon spoon down 31 feet on a downrigger in 42 feet by the Carter Harrison Crib. More on fishing lakefront fishing in the lakefront report. Caught this beauty ...

Avid angler Seth Green would devise a system to catch the often-deep lake trout, which would turn out to be the predecessor to today’s popular downrigger. Green invented a method where he would row a ...

DETROIT LAKES — Anthony Poatient Wehyee, 58, of Fergus Falls, formerly of Detroit Lakes, has been ordered to pay over $55,000 in restitution after being sentenced in Becker County District Court ...

Lead cores of 3, 5, and 7 colors were very effective as well as sliders off downrigger lines. Good colors were reported to have been greens, blues, red/white, and oranges. Smaller spoons ...

Attaching the line from a fishing rod to the downrigger allows the angler to more precisely control the depth they are fishing at and gets the line deeper more quickly. Salmon are typically ...

He won a fishing boat, trailer and other gear, including a downrigger, for the fish he caught Friday about 7 or 7:30 a.m., just north of Thompson’s Hole near Leith. He’d been ready to pack it in, ...

Yes, I am aware that there are pot pullers that could sit right on top of either downrigger mount I have, and use the exact same plug and the exact same electricity source. I could send pots ...

The only hitch was that none of them had caught a fish yet. “But just after lunch my spinning rod came to life off a downrigger, and line peeled off the reel,” a 68-year-old James tells Outdoor Life. ...

In the early days he experimented with techniques and gear, often hand-made. Trentadue said hs first downrigger weights were lead poured into 12-ounce beer cans. Clete Challe had a similar ...

and he put 12-year-old Brody Brewer of Patterson onto an 8¼-pound king salmon on a Pro-Troll Trout Killer at 87 feet on the downrigger. He said, “The trout are up high in the water column ...