If there’s one event in Wisconsin that’s likely to draw a bigger crowd than a playoff game at Lambeau Field or opening day at American Family Field, it just might be the spring white bass run.
Thousands of anglers from all across the Midwest converge to take home their share of white bass as the populations from Lake Winnebago and the upriver lakes crowd into the Fox and Wolf rivers to spawn.
Spring is a season of transition. Anglers watch winter’s ice recede and finally go out.
While many anglers wait impatiently for the spring walleye opener, others take to bulrush beds to chase crappies. But a growing contingent of anglers is flocking to certain waters in search of lake sturgeon. The state’s largest fish makes a spring spawning run that can offer great fishing.
Minnesota’s spring sturgeon fishing offers a crack at the fish of a lifetime Read More »
It’s been said before: Shed hunting is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Think about it: Any given buck can literally travel for miles from when deer begin dropping antlers in December until the last buck has shed in April. How are you supposed to know where a given deer was at the exact moment he shed an antler? Here are five tips to point you in the right direction.
Five tips to put you on more shed deer antlers Read More »
Anglers often talk about barometric pressure and its impact on fishing. It’s generally understood that high pressure makes for tough fishing while low pressure can turn on the bite. But what effect does air pressure have on fish?
What to do when cold, clear, high-pressure days shut down fishing Read More »
Tip-ups are a low-tech – but effective – tool for catching pike and walleyes under the ice. What follows are the finer points of these simple setups.
For starters, I like to use modern tip-ups that have an underwater spool and a spindle above water. Nowadays, that’s pretty much a given, but when I started ice fishing, we had those old wooden contraptions with which you had to fold them open to put them on the ice, then bend a spring-steel flag arm around and hook it to the underwater spool.
Examining the finer details of tip-up fishing Read More »
It all began on my first ice-fishing trip years ago to what would ultimately become my favorite lake in north-central Minnesota. Although we were there ostensibly for perch, my duck hunter’s switch never turns off, and the lake’s bulrush beds and numerous points had me drooling. I vowed to return in October.
Decoying Perch: When a duck hunt becomes a fishing outing Read More »
It may take some added effort, but escaping the sea of orange (and blaze pink) during the first weekend of the firearms deer season is possible in most locations. Get there early on Nov. 8, and get to places where deer are most likely to seek refuge from those out to get them.
Chuck and I sat listlessly, perched on 5-gallon buckets while guarding a little pothole off the big water where ducks like to settle in for the night. We had tried fishing – unsuccessfully – earlier that afternoon, and so far, the duck hunting wasn’t any better.
It was the first week of November, but it had been a mild fall.
Late-arriving canvasbacks make this a hunt to remember Read More »
I’m a casual grouse hunter at best. I don’t own a pointing dog or a double-barreled shotgun. I don’t anticipate the grouse opener in Minnesota with the same zeal as I do the fishing opener or deer season. But over the years, I have learned that I need the grouse season.
It all started when I was wild and youthful and spending my summers working in Alaska.
Here’s why I need grouse hunting in my life Read More »
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