Walleye

Crankbaiting your way to summer walleye and bass success

An immediate, aggressive approach to fishing can produce more action quickly during a hot bite of mid-summer.

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: Knowing when not to practice catch-and-release

Releasing fish helps protect the resource… except when it kills even more fish

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.

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.

Signs of good walleye fishing are in the air

Just because the air temp has dropped and the water is cold doesn’t mean that you have to hang up the waders and the spinning rods.

From Pennsylvania brook trout to Wisconsin walleyes, warming waters to play havoc with fisheries

Walleyes may lose out to largemouth bass if lakes continue to get warmer

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 in waders: Getting back to the roots of fishing at its best

Wading is simple and gets back to the roots of fishing at its best. Very little tackle is needed to fish a river, and depending on your species of choice, you may end up catching more than what you bargained for.

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.

Winter ice fishing Q&A: walleyes, glow, jigging spoons, and minnow heads

The ice formula guru, “Tackle” Terry Tuma answers the toughest angling questions from rank-and-file outdoorsmen for this winter’s hottest sport on hard water.

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

Walleye anglers unite for prime spinner rig time

Learn to run spinner rigs and you’ll catch more fishing throughout the open-water angling season.

Fishing tip: catch more fish by eliminating unproductive water

Use your electronics to identify fruitless water and then locate active fish.

Fall bass advice: Don’t be so quick to draw the line on fishing line

Although there are more and more choices, anglers should keep in mind that the proper fishing line could make the difference between a good day and a bad day on the water

Electronics aren’t just for kids

Catching fish requires finding fish, and the author stresses the importance of electronics on his fishing boat — along with learning how to use those electronics