GEORGETOWN, Ill. (AP) -- At age 6, Sam Van Camp caught his first little bluegill in Danville's Old Stony Creek using a wooden stick for a pole, a safety pin for a hook and a worm for bait. "I was so ...

The big wooden bass plug hit the water with a loud “ker-plop.” Even though I could not see the lure — after all, it was somewhere past midnight on the lee side of a little Canadian island — I knew it ...

There was a bit of magic inside the cardboard box hidden away in the corner of an unused room. The box, about a foot square, barely peeked out from behind the sleeping bags, waders and life jackets ...