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Prime fishing on Wisconsin/Minnesota waters of the Mississippi River heats up soon

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With its deep channels, red-and-green buoys swaying in the current, barges and bald eagles… if there ever was a real river, it’s the Mississippi.
A real river is one with calm and clear winter waters part of the year, then spring floods pumping out chocolate milk. A real river can change and float boats up into flooded trees or be low enough to dig your prop thick into a newly found sandbar. A real river is also loaded with walleyes, saugers, catfish, crappies, and northern pike.

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Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Make sure your crankbaits are running straight

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Trolling is always a great way to cover water and find active fish. The biggest thing anglers overlook with trolling is they trust that their crankbait is tuned and is tracking straight, but they don’t verify. Cranks can and do come out of tune all the time.

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Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Using the right lure for winter walleyes

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Ice fishing for walleyes is different from open-water fishing for obvious reasons, but one fact I find interesting is that not all bodies of water are created equal when it comes to icing walleyes. However, a good walleye lake on the ice is often a good open-water lake, too.   

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Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Catchin’ big fish in the fall

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It is a must if you’re out fishing with a crew of anglers to have minnows. Fathead minnows are good. Real nice fatheads are better – meaning fatheads and not a mix of crappie minnows being sold as fatheads. Use minnows the way “Tackle Terry” Tuma talks about – when the fish are negative or neutral.

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Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: ‘Unsticking’ the line-counter reel ‘odometer’

Features, Fishing, Minnesota, National Fishing, Pro Tips /

With all the dust in the air and simple wear and tear to a line counter, the line “odometer” can get sticky and become hard to read. Sometimes the first number reads 0 or 1 and the second number does the same or is halfway in between. It’s hard to know how much line you have out.

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Understand a river’s flow to catch more fish

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Rivers are seen by many anglers as mysterious and complicated places to fish – especially, where to find fish. They’re quite different from lakes. And if you tally the factors or conditions that affect rivers but don’t affect lakes, I would say yes, rivers certainly are more complex in character.
First, what are the differences? For one thing, flow – the moving water. Other river conditions include variable water level, water clarity changes within the system after heavy rains – or greater clarity because of a lack of water and sediment input.
Flow is a primary consideration because it’s a constant on a river. Let’s focus on how to go with the flow while river fishing.

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