Tips & Features
Minnesota Pro Tip of the Week: Keep it simple for fishing opener
Walleye opener in Minnesota can be a fun but stressful time for many anglers. They sometimes don’t have a chance to run through their gear.
Michigan’s trout opener is about fishing and friends
Sure, I caught and released a 16-inch brown the opening day on the Au Sable River’s South Branch before the skies opened up with rain.
Sure, it was typical weather for a trout opener
Understanding turkey behavior leads to more filled tags
Turkey hunters may not realize it, but the deck is stacked against them right from the get-go.
Every action turkey hunters take goes against the grain of Mother Nature. In the grand scheme of
Turkey hunting is sometimes a high-stress endeavor
Fooling spring gobblers is never a given. Maybe this is why turkey hunting can be high-stress? Such as: An approaching gobbler is coming to you. You watch him strut in the distance as he gobbles.
Walleyes and leeches: A little history of fishing with this popular blood-sucking bait
Catching walleyes with leeches has been around for decades, yet compared to minnows and crawlers, they’re still a relatively recent bait. Here’s some history behind how leech-fishing tactics started.
Bait leeches are readily available
A day afield with Gary Clancy: turkey lessons learned and passed along
Ten years ago on a crisp April morning, my father-in-law, Gary Clancy, and I were rummaging through his old “huntin’ shed,” methodically tracking down some gear for a day of catch-and-release fly fishing.
As
Minnesota’s Lake Pepin isn’t a preferred opener option, but maybe it should be
Although it’s one of the Minnesota DNR-managed 10 large lakes, Lake Pepin likely doesn’t top the list for most walleye anglers as a primo destination for the May 13 fishing opener.
The southeastern Minnesota lake
A look at some top tactics for bass in the grass
Up north, anglers refer to vegetation as weeds or weedbeds. Down south, and increasingly across the bass belt, anglers generically call all weedbeds “grass.” So for fun, let’s talk tactics for chasing “bass in the
Somewhere in time with Joan Wulff, the First Lady of fly fishing
Let me begin by saying that Joan Wulff has never been able to teach me how to double-haul correctly. This was certainly not Joan’s fault. We all know that Joan is an excellent teacher and
