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Steve Carney: Targeting deep water and where to find July fish
Both walleyes and crappies have now began to move into deeper water. I’ve noticed this in several lakes recently, and when I say deep, I mean 25 to 45 feet of water.
Finding perch

Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Shake, rattle, and roll in more walleyes!
Ramp up your live-bait rig, jig, or spinner rig and boat more walleyes by using more sound. It takes only a second to add a “rattle bead” to any live-bait rig (just above the hook)

The right light settings, and other factors to help get in and out of the deer woods undetected
Anyone who has hunted whitetails long enough knows the feeling. You’re almost to your treestand after moving slowly through the woods in the dark when the sound of an alarming blow and scattering hooves running

Bass anglers, here’s how to beat the summer heat – video
Mid-summer bass fishing can be tough, but when the weather gets hot, so do these five presentations.

Here’s how to build a steady dog for the duck blind
Chances are pretty good, if you’ve done a lot of upland bird or waterfowl hunting, you’ve seen a great hunting dog in action.
Chances also are pretty good you’ve seen an out-of-control canine that

Dean Bortz: An Avett brother in Missoula antique store?
Considering that I drew Montana deer and elk tags for this fall, I’d like to have been able to call our recent soiree to Montana, Oregon, and Idaho a scouting trip, but if I had

Jigging up deep-water lake trout a more dependable go-to tactic these days
Catching lake trout scattered across Lake Superior’s 31,700 square miles can seem like looking for a needle in a haystack. However, thanks to technological advances and a remarkable recovery of the lake trout fishery, the

Here’s how to beat the mid-summer bass lull
During late May and through pretty much all of June, bass-fishing action can be expected from dark to dark. As the middle of the summer settles in, that all seems to change.
While there

Robust redear sunfish are moving the needle in Michigan panfishing
There are hundreds of lakes in Michigan where anglers can enjoy good to very good bluegill fishing.
But when Chris Freiburger and I met up for a couple of hours of worm dunking recently,