The Berkshires' Buckley Dunton Lake in Becket is often the first Massachusetts water to freeze and the last to melt. The higher-elevation Western Massachusetts lakes and ponds are always the most ...

My fascination with Labrador started sometime in the late 1990s. Having grown up in the mountains of Colorado, where seemingly every little creek and beaver pond was stacked with non-native brook ...

All fish are predators, but northern pike come dressed for the part—needle teeth, vacant eyes, thick slime, serpentine shape—which is part of what make pike fishing so much fun. Their primeval ...