While many of us trade rods for rifles this time of year, muskie angling diehards know that fall is the season to swing for the fences, as giants are just a cast away. As waters cool and days shorten, ...

The catch proved to be no accident. Since then I’ve taken many fall small­mouths from such places and also at isolated spots of cover near shore, places where old stumps thrust their gnarled roots ...

In the valley just before dawn the town lights glitter in indigo shadow while the sky begins to fire from the rising sun. I like to leave the house then, though I know the settled clouds of autumn ...