Articles by Patrick Savard

As the summer slowly settles over the province, bringing along a thick blanket of heat that warms the air and surface waters, the angler looking to catch brook, rainbow, or lake trouts or even large pikes must diversify their basic arsenal. The ...

The sun's warm rays are getting stronger daily. Many fishing enthusiasts will soon open up their cupboards where they hide their rods, reels, and those fishing boxes filled with a thousand jewels. Given that good quality fishing gear is expensiv...

When comes the time to choose a line for the new fishing season, many questions arise, as a rising tide of products inundate the market and that the retail displays are getting larger and larger. What to do? First and foremost, you must clearly ...

"Give me your best lure. . ." How many times do we hear that one in a fishing shop! But what to answer? The best lure is actually the one you use the most frequently, the one in which you have the most confidence, the one you put in the water t...

Many believe that Esox lucius, our northern pike, is a warm-water species. Most of its fans, unfortunately still a rare sight in Quebec, will go looking for it in bays, near stumps and in shallow waters. However, our freshwater friend has an imp...