On The Alpers Trail

Nearly 30 California rivers and lakes hold this colorful, hard-fighting strain of rainbow

Ernie Cowan

Keep The Catching Hot!

Change your tactics and your Southern California reservoirs to keep catching largemouth bass

The 'Other' Chinook

Missing your king fix without an ocean season? Check out Lake Shasta and Folsom Lake for

Best Bites

Stripers in the Delta, bass at Folsom and world-record-sized blue catfish at Otay keep

Crazy About The Mad

The Mad River isn't yet famous for its steelhead run in December. But it should be! (December

J.D. Richey

Southern California's Bass Outlook

Will we see the world-class bass that we did a few years ago? Probably not! But there's more

36 Great Fishing Trips

This calendar will put you right in the middle of the action, now and for every month of the

Trout Bummin' In Bishop

Well-known mountain trout lakes, and a few out-of-the-way "secret" spots, await

2009 Trout Outlook

You can't control the weather and budget problems, but you can get a bead on the state's best

Northern and Central Bass Forecast

From largemouths to spots, Shasta to New Melones, here are 13 quality black bass destinations

Rising To The Trout

Trout fishing in Southern California switches from lowland reservoirs to high-mountain lakes

Gold Standard

Some Gold Country bass pros prefer the post-spawn to any other phase. And they know the tricks