Tips & Features
Steve Carney: Details from three perfect days of fishing in Minnesota
During last year’s open-water fishing season, I was approached at a public access while I was with clients and launching my boat, a man from Wisconsin asked me for some tips on fishing Otter Tail
Minnesota’s Pro Tip of the Week: Early heat changes walleye fishing
Here we are in June, and water temperatures already are in the low to mid-70s. Normally, we’re looking at these conditions come mid-July. With the early heat, you may find walleyes in places they don’t
There are giant bighead carp in the Illinois River
Recently, social media was buzzing with pictures of a bighead carp weighing 109 pounds – a fish that was caught during the Invasive Carp Control Program near Morris, Ill.
That was after a 90-pound
Big tiger muskie caught for at least the third time in Wisconsin
Thanks to the practice of catch-and-release, the thrill of boating a big tiger muskie has been experienced by at least two visitors to Wisconsin’s Northwoods.
On June 10, longtime muskie angler Ken Williams, of
New York brothers headed for Bassmaster Jr. National Championship
Beckett Kraft and his brother, Sullivan, didn’t exactly get off to a slow start in the four-event N.Y. Bass Junior Division tournament trail.
They got off to no start at all. Unable to compete
Every picture tells a story, Part II
The last time we met here, I described a couple of black-and-white photos from back in the early 1950s.
The story of Larry Leonard, central Minnesota’s “purple martin man”
“It all began in the early 1970s,” Larry Leonard said. “I built a purple martin house and put it up. Before I had the last nut tightened on the pole, martins were checking out the
The makings of a new angler, PK Pollick
The young man was constantly bugging Dad about going fishing, touring the fishing sections of sporting-goods stores, reading fishing magazines, books and on-line articles about fishing.
Catfish filleting tutorial – video
Some still say they don’t like cats because they taste “muddy” or “fishy” but that’s just not the case if you fillet them properly. Here’s how it’s done.
