Pat Mayse Lake is a little over two feet low, slightly stained with morning water temperatures in the low 60s.

Tributary action off the Great Lakes has been hampered by some high-water conditions, but fish are being caught.

Lefty Kreh, the late fishing author and international fly-fishing authority espoused a theory I follow consistently: “Regardless of where you travel, plan to be warmer, colder, wetter and drier than ...