This story was originally featured on Field & Stream. You could use one of those fancy side-scan sonar depthfinders with the new underwater fish-eye orthographic readouts. Or you could go cut a switch ...

You could use one of those fancy side-scan sonar depth finders with the new underwater fish-eye orthographic readouts. Or you could go cut a switch of bamboo and do a little cane-pole fishing. If you ...

At times, all of us look back in longing to simpler days and simpler ways. Often such thoughts focus on youth and carefree pursuits we enjoyed before coming of age. For many sportsmen, one of the most ...

Fishing, at the most primitive level, is really quite simple. The fish tugs at the baited hook and the angler lifts the fish out of the water and onto the bank or into the boat.It worked for Tom ...

ESKO, Minn.—When Phil Johnson was in college, making $3 an hour working summers at the paper mill in Cloquet, he saved enough to buy himself a bamboo fly rod. “I bought an Orvis Battenkill,” says ...

Discover how to fish with cane poles and about the different bait types. In this episode, we learn about fishing with cane poles, the basics of different bait types, and safety tips for when fishing ...

Although Quarles is rehabilitating from multiple back surgeries, he’s still willing to share his passion for fly fishing by helping people craft bamboo fly rods.

This story, “Flipjacking,” appeared in the November 1956 issue of Outdoor Life. Daylight was only a pale promise on the horizon as Walker Cline and I pulled away from a dock on Indian Lake in western ...