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5 days ago | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius
During my senior year of college, three of my buddies and I decided to have a month-long bass fishing tournament. The rules were simple: Two vs. two, and the team with the heaviest bag of five fish after 30 days wins. But there was a kicker: Anglers were not allowed to venture farther than a 50-mile radius of our apartment. The goal was to push our fishing skills to the brink and think outside the box. This meant that Google Earth and pond hopping would play a major role in success.
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1 week ago | 
fieldandstream.com | Dave Hurteau |Ryan Chelius |Colin Kearns |Matthew Every
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more ›Three years ago, in the name of research (and fun), a crew of Field & Stream editors assembled for the most rigorous fly rod test we’ve ever done. Since then, the limited release of new rods and scheduling conflicts prevented us from doing another fly rod shootout.
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2 weeks ago | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius
Last March, I surprised my dad with a flight to come visit me in Colorado. I’d been living here for about two years and had discovered some good trout waters that I wanted to share with him. There was, however, one catch. “You leave in a week,” I said. Not giving Dad time to procrastinate and buy his own ticket was the best way to get him out here for our first-ever Western fly fishing trip. One that was long overdue.
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2 months ago | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius |Travis Smola
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn moreThe top saltwater rods are built not only to battle the larger fish present in the world’s oceans, but also to resist the highly corrosive effects of exposure to saltwater. Whether you are targeting redfish and snook in the flats, or marlin and tuna far offshore, saltwater fishing rods have a much stricter case use basis than freshwater in most instances.
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn moreUnless you have a Yeti cooler, you’re likely all too familiar with this common summer letdown: You open your cooler on a hot day to pluck a cold drink out of the ice, only to see nothing but cans and bottles floating in water, not a cube in sight. No matter how much ice you stuff into some coolers, they just don’t get the job done.
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Mar 18, 2025 | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius |Max Inchausti |Travis Smola |T. Logan Metesh
Best OverallShimano TwinPower SW Spinning ReelBest BaitcastShimano Bantam Baitcast ReelBest BudgetShimano Spheros SW A Spinning ReelWe may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn moreThis winter, I set out to test some of the best Shimano reels available, from spinning reels to baitcasters. The test logistics included many moving parts like target species, reel size, and application.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
fieldandstream.com | Max Inchausti |Ryan Chelius
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn moreLast year, the Field & Stream team of editors decided to perform the most comprehensive and detailed fly rod test in the publication’s history. Naturally, we chose trout as the target species. That test went on to be one of the most successful and fun projects of the year. In fact, it was so much fun we wanted to do it again. But this time, we did a complete 180.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn moreMy first pair of wading boots lasted me over five years. When I hung them up for good, the re-glued soles were falling off again. But I was a broke college grad who thought money could be better spent on more “practical” things like fly rods and fancy fishing apparel. I was wrong.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius
Walking into South Fork Lodge, you wouldn't know that Oliver White owns the place. He's there to greet you, offer a drink, and talk fishing. White purchased the lodge in 2020 with a business partner and refurbished it into what it is today—an epic fishing camp. He's been managing lodges since his late 20s and has built a reputation as one of the most talented fly anglers in the world. Many fishermen would recognize White from a number of short films and videos on YouTube.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
fieldandstream.com | Ryan Chelius
Other than mallards, no North American waterfowl species have been banded more than Canada geese. If you hunt honkers often, shooting one sporting a piece of jewelry isn’t as rare as you might think. Over 3 million geese have been banded since the early 1900s, with just over 1 million encounters. Now, killing two banded geese in one day is much less common. But shooting two geese with consecutive band numbers is almost unheard of.
