By no measure would I claim to be an expert on fishing for crappies, but I have been enjoying a pretty good catch rate this spring. The majority of my fishing excursions are for other species, including my favorite largemouth and smallmouth bass. But crappies are a reliable fall-back when ...

Sorry to hear about the passing of legendary Findlay College football coach Dick Strahm, who died Tuesday at age 92. Sadly, his wife died on the same day. Strahm led the Oilers to four NAIA national championships during a 24-year run. He’s enshrined in both the NAIA and National College ...

The words roll off the tongues of Lake Erie walleye anglers with disdain. “The mayflies are hatching.” They are words no walleye angler wants to hear. Every year from late May through June, just as the weather is getting reliably good and anglers are itching to get out on Erie, Mother ...

It’s that time of the decade again. The point where finances seep into America’s past time. Over the last couple days, the MLB Players Association and Major League Baseball submitted their initial proposals for the upcoming Collective Bargaining Agreement, with the current CBA set to ...

Fishing lures have been works of art for as long as people have applied their imagination to fashion bone, wood, feathers, metal and string into tools capable of convincing wild animals to attempt to eat them. Inanimate though they are, lures come alive in the hands of skilled anglers who ...

The fifth fish Ray hoisted over the gunwale of the Bass Cat was the proof I needed that I should accept his offer to share one of his lures. Sometimes I need the evidence to hit me in the head. Fishing buddy Ray Halter and I teamed up last week to explore one of our favorite lakes in ...