In August and early September I have enjoyed some of the best top-water fishing I can recall, with nothing more than a casting reel, my old johnboat and an old-fashioned jitterbug lure and a headlamp.

After last week’s column on jitterbug fishing at night in streams, I had a couple of readers complain that they were unable to paddle a canoe and spend the night on a gravel bar, and wanted to know if ...

Sometimes, the tried and true methods of catching fish are the best ones. The fishing lure industry brought in $5.8 billion a year in 2013, according to the American Sportfishing Association, but it’s ...