
Versatility is key to metro bass fishing
This style of fishing is distant from the silence of a peaceful rural waterway. Wildlife encounters do happen, but you’re not going to be an eyewitness to Yogi Bear or Big Foot. You will not

This style of fishing is distant from the silence of a peaceful rural waterway. Wildlife encounters do happen, but you’re not going to be an eyewitness to Yogi Bear or Big Foot. You will not

Look for widely spaced above-surface rocks to support, at times, substantial numbers of mating and waring crayfish and this is when smallmouths and panfish make their best appearance.

If you want to target the bigger fish of this species, you need to approach the waters with a different mentality.

Night fishing tends to yield some of the biggest walleyes in a given system.

Strategy for fishing weed flats – this is where the action will be for the foreseeable future.

Underwater cameras, which traditionally have seen far more useful in the winter, are becoming more mainstream out on the open water.

But it’s one thing to get a take on a tiny fly; it’s a whole other matter actually landing the bugger.

The swimbait can swing free on the line after the treble has been pulled out by a fish, causing less damage to the swimbait and making it more difficult for a fish to use the

Welcome to the jungle of hungry spring walleyes.
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