Greg Bambenek remembers as a kid going out on the Mississippi River with his dad, putting out set lines for flathead catfish. In a rowboat, the two would set out 50 baits, all suspended from one long ...

For late November, the conditions were ideal — light south wind, partly cloudy skies, afternoon highs in the mid 40s. The spots we were fishing are familiar to me, modest sized hard bottom humps that ...