For fans of professional bass fishing, the most wonderful time of the year starts now.
Consider: There are 31 weekends between when the two major national tournament circuits – the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour and the Bassmaster Elite Series – kick off at the end of January and wrap up at the end of August.
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There’s a neighbor at our cabin whose family has fished the lake decades longer than I’ve been alive.
This is Lake Carlos in the Alexandria, Minn., area and growing up, I used to be fascinated by their stories of walleyes patrolling bulrush beds after dark, the big northern pike that would hit on sharp drop-offs in the late fall and the smallmouth bass that congregated on a couple of deep humps (smallies have since become much more common). But nothing piqued my interest more than seeing their grainy photos of tullibees, those slender, silver- to white-colored fish that live in deep, cold lakes.
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In all the times we’ve fished together, my son has lobbed untold thousands of questions. Only one has really stuck with me: “Dad, why don’t we ever catch any walleyes?”
“Because we don’t fish for them. We’re bass fishermen.”
He should know that by now. To borrow from that theme, while there were several hunting seasons open during Minnesota’s long MEA weekend, he and I went fishing instead.
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Hundreds of millions acres of public lands across the United States are open to hunting.
That type of accessibility sets the United States apart from most other countries and is key to the hunting culture that exists today.
And yet every year millions of people hunt – or seek out opportunities to hunt – on private property, which often comes with less competition and more certainty. Hunting property can be a good revenue source because, for productive properties anyway, there’s relatively limited supply but plenty of demand.
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If it wasn’t abundantly clear already, 2025 was proof positive that Minnesota churns out some pretty talented bass anglers.
Back in March, Grand Rapids native Easton Fothergill ran away with the Bassmaster Classic title, besting the second-place finisher in the biggest bass tournament of them all by more than 8 pounds. Several weeks after that, Fothergill and New Market pro Seth Feider each scored top 10 finishes at the Bassmaster Elite event at Lake Fork in Texas.
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It’s easy to find solitude on the lake in the spring. Ditto the fall, especially as the calendar flips closer to winter. But summer? Better be prepared to either deal with the traffic resulting from tubing, wake boarding, and water skiing, or sacrifice on sleep and hit the water early in the morning or late in the evening.
Plenty of anglers do it. After all, if the choice is to stay home or share the lake, most anglers are going to grin and bear the extra activity. But there’s another option that allows you to wet a line and, often as not, avoid the crowds.
Welcome to the river.
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With the nation’s northern locales largely locked in winter’s icy grip and only dreaming about fishing open water, some of the world’s top bass anglers – nearly 170 of them split between two national tournament trails – will spend the next seven months traveling the country and fishing some of the finest fisheries the United States has to offer.
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Fish, fish, fish.
For several summers, that’s about all my son and I did.
Mornings and evenings and weekends, we’d be on the water, chasing bass. He’d ask to go walleye fishing. I’d remind him, “We’re bass fishermen,” and go about my business. Certainly, we’d take advantage of seasonal spikes in activity. Then, youth sports started in earnest.
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There’s really nothing like the terror associated with falling through the ice and into dangerously cold water.
Anyone who’s survived the scenario can recall it in vivid detail even years later. Some of them move beyond their fears and head for the frozen water again, while others want nothing to do with the possibility.
Interested in float coats and suits for ice fishing? Here’s what to consider Read More »
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