On paper, the author’s late-summer fishing trip to Alaska’s vast interior couldn’t have been timed any better.

It is rare for a New Yorker to see a 50-degree day in January, but when he does, he goes fishing.

Many streams in New York will be extremely low and warm and not fit for fishing by early summer if the East Coast’s record-setting drought persists.

As New York’s drought emergency continues unabated, trout anglers are facing a question: to fish or not to fish.

One soon learns to be wary of Lake Umbagog’s moods. It is long and shallow, and rough water can build up in minutes.

This week’s column includes items on the effects of throwing the little fish back, molecule-size sensors for cells and NASA’s value plan.

Nature may be bountiful, as she has been with this year’s run of stripers, blues and false albacore. But she can also be capricious, as she was in Montauk.

An ardent fisher’s favorite rivers are increasingly peopled with ghosts, and Opening Day is more pilgrimage than fishing.

The last few weeks of spring usually surrender an abundance of important mayflies, and their hatchings and twilight egg-layings are just cause for celebration.

In one of fate’s serendipitous nods, storms that had led to talk of evacuation instead brought bursts of memorable striped bass fishing in the surf.