For many bass fisheries across the country, the post-spawn is upon us. This means fish have made their beds, laid their eggs, and tiny little fry are beginning to hatch. The good news for anglers is ...

In Alabama, the pollen is thick on the truck, the buttercups are popping out of the ground, and the dogwoods are about to bloom—all indicators that bass should be heading onto beds soon. The same can ...

Fish are doubtlessly feeling about now whatever fish feel when the urge to spawn kicks in. In but a little while – if not today or yesterday – female and male will be heeding an ancient directive by ...

As the winter ice retreats and water temperatures climb into the 40s, one of Indiana’s most anticipated fishing windows is ...

Whether or not you should fish a stream when trout are spawning is one of the great debates constantly raging in the trout fishing world. Without a doubt, trout deserve space to spawn in peace. But ...

Every autumn as the leaves drop and the temperature falls, we start to notice the annual spawning behavior of brown trout. Browns spawn in fall, and rainbows in late winter to early spring. During ...

Late in the 1980s, my family moved from LaMoure to Valley City, N.D. I'd fished the Jim River and Lake LaMoure before the move and enjoyed an array of fish, from pike to perch and even the lowly carp.

In spawning, female fish lay eggs while the male fish fertilizes them with milt, or sperm. At the hatchery, staff members net the fish that are ready to spawn and place them into a tub of anesthetic, ...

The Chicago River was once a heavily polluted mess, a source of deadly diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. The waterway was so dirty that engineers famously reversed its direction in 1900 so it ...

Dr Peter Walker is a technical director and aquatic ecologist at RSK Biocensus The UK is home to important species of fish.