Old River in Avoyelles Parish features some outstanding crappie fishing that attracts anglers from throughout the South. It's even easier to catch them if you use a gill net. That's exactly what the ...

After you've landed your fish, you need to get the hook out. Most of the time it's a simply matter. Just grasp the hook or lure, push back against the direction the hook penetrated and you're done.

On a lonely skiff in Bristol Bay, a five-pound salmon thrashes under my gloves as I wrestle it out of the gill net. It’s 10 p.m. in Alaska, where I’ve joined a crew of three aboard the Baby Seal, a 23 ...