Pity the poor burbot. Too long scorned and dismissed, unlovely and unloved. At best an occasional nuisance while pursuing “real” fish like the mighty walleye. At worst, lumped in with carp and other “rough fish” as an undesirable trash fish and tossed on the ice: eagle food.
Burbot through the ice are late winter’s overlooked opportunity Read More »
For most Minnesota anglers, bass are the boys of summer. Think bass and you think muggy mornings and long, sun-shot summer evenings. Topwater frogs in the lily pads, or deep weed edges and crankbaits when the sweat is dripping off your elbows. That’s bass fishing. But late fall? That’s for walleyes and muskies.
I get the skepticism. But late fall bass fishing has a few things going for it.
How to target the bucketmouths of November Read More »
OK, so “muskies” and “easy” is probably a stretch. Muskies are rarely easy. But even if they’re difficult, there’s no need to make them complicated, especially early in the season.
Oh, but early season – that’s when we want so badly to complicate things. It’s been a long offseason. You’ve read and reread every article, gone cross-eyed watching video after video on YouTube, doom-scrolled TikTok and the ‘Gram. You went to the shows, heard the seminars, and did unspeakable things to your credit score buying the latest lures and the hottest colors.
Stay on the search and keep an open mind for spring muskies Read More »
Late fall muskies can be a feast or famine affair. On the one hand, fish are fairly predictable, and location narrows to a few key types of areas. Weighing against that? Feeding windows are equally narrow. Miss those opportunities, and you’ll mostly catch a chill.
Muskies to the bitter end Read More »
Finding fall walleyes can be a study in extremes.
At one end of the spectrum, big is better as migrating fish are drawn to macro structure. Think big, main-lake points, neck-downs, and pinch points that form major features in a lake’s overall topography – the kinds of things you can see even with mapping software zoomed way out.
Within those large areas, though, small – sometimes very small – features can concentrate numbers of fish.
When it comes to fall walleyes, think big picture, then think small Read More »
Early summer is a time of furious activity for almost every fish species. Early spawning species like pike and walleyes are well beyond post-spawn and on their way to summer habitat. Later spawners, like muskies, bass, and panfish, are just post-spawn and in transition away from spawning areas, on the move to locations where they can feed and recover energy spent during spawn.
Run the inside weed edge for bass, pike and muskies this summer Read More »
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