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Best trout lures for 2026

Sadly, there's no magic lure that entices trout all the time. What I've found is that the best lure for trout depends on where you're fishing, when you're fishing, and what food source trout are ...
Icehouse Lake, located at the Washington end of the Bridge of the Gods at Cascade Locks, was empty. The fisher folks that usually line up along the Highway 14 shore were nowhere to be seen. Checking ...
When a stocked rainbow trout comes across a big wad of dough bait floating off the lake bottom, it harkens back to a time when life was so easy and being a fish was so simple — those two years of ...
There is the mythic adventure of trekking to a mountain river, a fly rod in hand for catching wild trout. It is all taking place, of course, in a poetic setting in which nature talks to you. Then ...
What’s the best bait for trout? It’s a tough question, and that’s a good thing. Today’s trout fisher has a wide range of store-bought trout bait—along with trout lures and trout spinning reels—to ...
Trout season opens at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 6, in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and that means it’s time for anglers to take stock of their fishing tackle and bait or lure options. For some ...
Holiday-weary New Mexicans looking for a break from shopping and other festivities might want to consider a Land of ...
At Conchas Lake, Jim Scaggs caught 14 largemouth bass using a crankbait on May 3. … Jared Fishburn caught seven smallmouth bass using spinnerbaits on April 27. JR Chapman caught four trout at ...