This story, “It Takes a Grampus,” appeared in the August 1950 issue of Outdoor Life. Did you ever buck a first-class, big­ scale, full-blown jinx in a choice piece of trout country? Ever fish streams ...

Some of the best fish foods you can cast out might require you to collect them yourself or find a regional shop that carries harder-to-find baits. There might even be a few species on this list that ...

Unless you live under a rock, like a hellgrammite, and you are a fisherman, you have heard of this insect and know of its importance in the fishing world. If you fish a river in North America, ...

Last week's report included a note about how effective live hellgrammites are at fooling river smallmouth bass. This week, a little more information. Hellgrammites are the larva of the dobson fly.

Summertime smallmouth bass usually aren't too picky. If they're in a biting mood, and they often are, they'll hit all kinds of soft plastics, topwater lures, grubs and spinners. But probably the best ...

The lifespan of a dobsonfly is three to five years, but the vast majority of its life is spent underwater — as a hellgrammite. Anglers know the hellgrammite as a centipede-looking critter found under ...