Fishing ponds might seem like some sort of small-town throwback, but they can be highly productive, if you know where fish ...

For years, ice anglers were told they had to downsize to catch fish. Fish are cold blooded and their metabolism slows in winter, so we need to use tiny lures to catch these fickle feeders, we thought.

Twenty years ago, when Trent Tatum and his business partner began building a fishing empire on a blue-ribbon tail water in central Wyoming, two clients could catch up to 80 fish a day. That’s roughly ...