It’s hard to find much humor in getting poked with a fish hook, particularly when your butt is in the bullseye of a No. 6 treble. My old friend Kerry Karlix, of McKinney, knows the game all too well.

Unlike many fish stories, full of heroism and bravado on the angler’s part, the one Granby local Tim Daniel tells about catching his record-breaking brook trout brims with feeling and lessons in ...

It’s hard to find much humor in getting poked with a fish hook, particularly when your butt is in the bullseye of a No. 6 treble. My old friend Kerry Karlix, of McKinney, knows the game all too well.

ALTON, Ill. (AP) -- It sounds like the sort of tale Mark Twain might have cooked up: A man fishing in the Mississippi River hauls in a blue catfish roughly the size of a sixth-grader. But this is no ...

Ten-year-old Samuel has always had a penchant for sticks. It started when he was barely walking, after he’d watched our family play a game of broomball one winter. So smitten was he with my kitchen ...