Spring is our reward for enduring winter, bringing us a new season of baseball, fair weather and big bass to the shallow water of our favorite lakes. April showers are in the forecast, the Cleveland Guardians are undefeated (as I write this) and the largemouths are swimming to the warming ...

Anglers live for noteworthy catches and rarely fail to celebrate and commemorate their successes. For as long as people have gone to the water with intentions of catching fish, the most and the biggest were measures of anglers’ skill and cunning. The ancients rejoiced at outstanding ...

Consider the fact that you’re either an angler or you’re not. Even if you have only a foggy memory of a day long ago when someone took you to a pond and handed you a fishing rod, you are a fisher. So, the way I see it, everybody started somewhere or they simply never took the bait. ...

In the 78-year history of NASCAR, no driver has ever won the first three races of a season. That is, until basketball legend Michael Jordan hired Tyler Reddick and set the 2026 NASCAR season on fire. In 2020, Jordan teamed with Denny Hamlin to form 23XI Racing. The team has won at various ...

Slowly but surely, our Mahoning River is reverting to the time when it flowed freely through a hardwood valley unencumbered by modern times. Our valley’s lifeblood river hasn’t always had a happy existence. In the 19th century, as Youngstown and her sister cities grew along the banks of ...

Ice and snow may come and go, but spring is the promise nature never fails to fulfill. People who love to fish are biding their time in this “tweener” season as winter fights to maintain its frigid grip while the winds shift and the sun beams more energy across our region. The annual tug ...