It seemed inevitable that Hunter Engel would wind up a charter boat captain. He acknowledges as much. “I would say so,” said the 27-year-old skipper of Best Chance, a 30-foot Sea Ray, as we headed out to Lake Michigan the other day. “I grew up…
Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you know by now that Bassmasters magazine–the bible to America’s largest freshwater fishing fraternity–has named Lake St. Clair as the best bass fishing lake in America. To those of us who have been around St. Clair for the…
High winds the previous night had turned the what-had-been gin clear water of Saginaw Bay into chocolate milk, so our plan–to run out to the islands and tray to beat up on the smallmouths–was out the window. Not to worry, said Bill Horton. We’d just…
It’s pretty rare that the surface of this 20,000-plus-acre Roscommon County fish factory is as smooth as glass, but that’s how it was when I met up with Mike Mol the other evening for one of our annual walleye fishing safaris. And that, Mol said,…
For most of the last decade, I’ve been fishing for bluegills a day or two a year with Denny Hettig, who has developed a simple trolling approach that is not only incredibly productive, but also almost idiotproof. So imagine my surprise when we pushed off…
