Fishing tips: proper handling for fish catch and release
Having the proper tools and tackle will help you become more efficient and effective when practicing catch and release this open-water season.
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Fishing tips for locating early season walleyes
Monitor the small angling details to catch more fish during the post-spawn period of May and June
Pennsylvania Spinner trout fishing primer – Part 1
Fishing spinners is a very effective technique for trout fishing, if used properly.
Properly store your ice fishing electronics, shelters, clothing, augers and more…
Take the time now to properly store your ice gear to make it easier to prepare for next years hard-water season.
Youth and hard water: Tips for taking kids ice fishing
Youngsters naturally love to crank up fish. Keep it enjoyable and you’ll help build the next generation of anglers, plus a fishing buddy for life.
Ice fishing tips: Refining your jigging techniques for light-biting crappies and sunfish
Catch more fish with the right bait or lure, then know how to identify the slightest of bites.
Flying high again: Boating industry unveils top models for 2015
New model boats keep the best, update the rest
When panfish behave badly
A common mistake some anglers make is thinking the world below the ice is static and that nothing changes.
Ice fishing tip: Cold weather battery maintenance
Take proper care of batteries while fishing in cold weather to avoid costly replacement fees.
Angling fact of life: The negative scent factor in ice fishing
Doesn’t matter which species – walleye, pike, perch, crappies or bluegills – fish detecting unnatural odors will cost you bites this winter
Ice fishing tip: Searching for suspended crappies before drilling holes
Find fish with less effort by sonar reading through the ice rather than drilling more holes.
Ice fishing tip for walleyes and panfish: try big, flashy, noisy spoons
When early hard water arrives, attract fish first, then determine what lure triggers bites. And don’t be afraid to start big and work down.
A simple minnow-hooking technique for open water or hard-water fishing [Video]
Whether it’s live fatheads or frozen shiners, hooking your minnows the right way produces more strikes from walleyes, perch, crappies, and pike alike.
Catching fall walleyes with jigging minnow baits
Tips on how to use jigging minnow baits to catch walleyes in autumn.
Take figure-eight to next level with 'Hang Move'
Muskie fishermen who practice figure eights after every cast know the maneuver will increase their catches by around 25 percent each season
Lay Over Walleyes
Anglers love to follow cliches. Many of these cliches get taken as truths and get repeated until nobody ever questions what them
Water temp is key to locating Great Lakes trout, salmon
If there’s one absolute about how water temperatures affect salmon movement in the Great Lakes, it’s that there is absolutely no magic formula for homing in on the hottest bite.
A Bass'n Plan: Open water tactics for 2014
Top presentations for spring bass
A bass anglers approach to electronics
Properly employing digital age components will help you catch more fish
Tips for better downrigging
Details often can make or break a summer fishing trip.
New Lures for 2013
What lies beneath and up top for this fishing season
Walleye Freshwater Game Fishing Gold
The largest member of the perch family, Sander vitreus, has a dedicated angling following throughout most of the eastern United States and Canada
Fun fishing in early walleye territory: crankbaits!
I hear from anglers who assume that crankbaits only work in warm temperatures. Not true! Crankbaits will work opening weekend and all the way through summer, trolling or casting. Most people troll crankbaits, but in a rip-rap area or other structure, there’s nothing wrong with experimenting with some crankbait casting. When trolling cranks, you have three choices: long-line, use lead-core, or…
Cornering Shallow-Water Crappie
Warming water lures fish to shallows; online video details best angling techniques
Can’t miss early walleye tactics of 2012: live-bait rigs
I believe spring 2012 is setting up for great live-bait rigging conditions. We’re in for a good leech bite if it gets a little warmer in the days leading up to opener. I keep the snells for my live bait rig averaging about 5 feet – longer when I’m in a finesse mode, say 8 to 10 feet. I stick…
Early season walleye jigging tactics
I love using jigs but too many anglers aren’t fishing them correctly. Just starters, understand that you won’t always feel the thump of a walleye when it strikes a jig. Guys expect that sure bite or hit. Many times you don’t feel it. So often you drop the jig down and it stops. Maybe you’ll just feel some extra weight….
