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.
Fishing
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….
Pre-planning your early season with a game plan
Before heading out for early season walleyes, you must find a lake with walleyes. That sounds obvious, but you can’t catch a fish that doesn’t exist!
Tips for meeting rising costs of boat fuel
Just like fuel for your car, pickup or motor home, boat fuel costs are climbing.
