This Saturday, Sept. 21 will be the rescheduled 16th annual Lou Blaney Memorial one of the biggest races of the 95th season. Lou Blaney was fan favorite and a racing legend having won over 600 feature races and 7 championships. Inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, Eastern ...

Stand around a boat ramp or hang around a bait shop long enough and you’ll no doubt hear the most ubiquitous question in fishing: What are they biting? While it’s a common query, it’s actually the wrong question for those who yearn for the scoop on the best trick to score fish. Ask ...

It’s Canfield Fair time, which means summer’s on the run, but the good fishing continues throughout the region for largemouth and smallmouth bass, walleyes and crappies. The fishing isn’t easy at Mosquito, Pymatuning, Shenango, Berlin, Milton and West Branch, but it is proving to be ...

By my unofficial count, I have caught more than 30 species of fish, a testimony to the variety of experiences awaiting anglers around northeastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania. In spite of that variety, some say fishing is “boring.” The same folks may say baseball is boring. But I say ...

A bit of advice: Take advantage of any day you can share on the lake with a bobblehead character or friend associated with the greatest. They’ll get a chuckle out of this, but it’s true. Over the past week, I was joined by fishing friends John Hirschbeck of Beaver Township and Ted ...

The alarm clock kicked into action the other day and my unconscious self’s first instinct was to ignore the signal. Ugh. Not yet. No way. Can’t do it. Leave me be. But then the truth of the day dawned on me: I was going fishing. Suddenly the annoyance on the nightstand was my call to ...