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Jason Revermann
Fall walleye fishing tip: Go aggressive to target bigger fish
Use electronics to scan steep breaks to locate baitfish and predators, then make sure to follow them as they switch depths during changing light conditions.Â
Fall fishing tips – techniques to catch suspended autumn crappie
With water temps dropping, crappies are munching on minnows. Use your electronics to locate schools of suspended slabs, then find what triggers bites.
Fishing tips: vertical jigging for panfish during the dog days of summer
Put away the bobbers and use your electronics to locate the big bluegills of late summer
Fishing tips: Charge batteries and check over small engines to prepare for next ice angling season
Spend a little time now checking and maintaining ice fishing equipment to avoid damage and the need for costly repairs or replacements!
Fishing tip: Change your tactics to catch more spring walleyes
To put more fish in the boat this spring, use electronics and switch tactics until you identify a hot technique
Ice fishing tip: Catching late-season crappies you didn’t know existed
Find lush, green cabbage and coontail vegetation during late ice, and high-rising, slab crappies and aggressive bluegills may be nearby.
Ice-fishing tip: Knowing when not to practice catch-and-release
Releasing fish helps protect the resource… except when it kills even more fish
Ice fishing tips: To keep warm on the ice, stay cool first
Create better hard-water angling experiences and catch more fish by staying warm and extending your adventures on the ice!
Ice fishing tip: Keep your lure moving and you’ll attract and catch more fish
Attract fish, then employ your sonar to determine the mood of the fish… and the presentation to prompt strikes.
Ice fishing tips: Go-to baits and jigging tactics for first ice walleyes
First ice is approaching fast. Much of the ice belt awaits walkable ice, though some northern lakes have capped over with enough hard water to venture out.Â
Fall fishing tip for walleyes and crappies: First find food, and the predatory gamefish will be nearby
Finding walleyes and crappies can be simple if you locate their primary food source in fall: schools of baitfish.
Fall angling checklist: A preseason checkup for your ice fishing electronics
For more success when ice appears this fall, test your sonar, GPS, and other ice fishing gadgets now – during the off season.
Three-way rigs and bottom-bouncer setups with stickbaits are perfect multi-species techniques
Versatile fishing methods will entertain you by putting more fish in the boat and help you determine what the next bite will produce.
Fishing tips: Move outside the weedlines to catch more summer bluegills and crappies
Use electronics to locate panfish in deeper water during the warmer months of July and August.
Open water fishing tips: Catch more walleyes with spinner rigs in shallow water
Troll spinner rigs farther away from the boat to hook more walleyes when fishing in clear, shallow water.
Fishing tips: locating and catching spring crappies before the water warms
Use your electronics to locate and catch spring crappies before they move into shallow water areas.
Scratch your fishing itch with springtime river rough fish
Got open-water fishing fever? Grab some live bait, and set the hook into massive common carp, suckers and catfish.
Ice fishing tip: Using underwater cameras to be a more productive angler
Underwater cameras will truly open up the hard-water angling world and help you put more fish topside
Ice fishing tip: Organize and protect your ice fishing gear, then spend more time catching fish!
Hard water angling requires working, efficient tackle, so reward yourself with more productive ice fishing by keeping gear properly organized.
Ice fishing tip: Catch more walleyes by ringing the dinner bell with call baits
Make contact with more hard-water walleyes via large, noisy baits to attract them.
Ice fishing tips: important safety equipment for first ice ventures
Safety! Safety! Safety! Ensure that you’ll enjoy the great outdoors for years to come by taking proper hard-water precautions with this essential gear.
Fishing tip: Downsize jigs and increase minnow size to catch more fall walleyes
Use electronics to locate schools of baitfish and find predatory walleyes nearby post turnover
Fishing tip: catch more fish by eliminating unproductive water
Use your electronics to identify fruitless water and then locate active fish.
Fishing tip: Maintain your ice fishing equipment during the open water season!
Preventative maintenance on ice fishing gear makes for faster preparation, and it could save you a ton of money!
Fishing tip: Get your hook to the bottom fast to catch more big mid-summer bluegills
Larger panfish will seek deeper depths during the long, warm-water days of summer.
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