CarlsonCol.jpg Quality, midday panfish can offer winter entertainment for hard water anglers. Over the years, I have had many people ask me why I prefer to chase panfish during the hard water season.

For nearly the past 20 years, I have made a concerted effort to try to find, and catch, open-water panfish in the middle of the winter, when almost everybody else had reclined to college basketball, ...

COLFAX − Rollins Lake, located on the Bear River in the Sierra Nevada near Colfax at 2,100 feet, has undergone a big transition from one fishery to another over the decades, as many lakes in ...