Tips & Features
Harvest Kitchen Series: Deer Bacon Haluski
Novel use of venison in Pennsylvania and beyond.
Fall means crappies on top of weedbeds
At this time of fall, once you pop a good crappie, stay there. They are now schooling up, and when you find one, there will be more, which is typical of the fall crappie pattern.
The hungry, aggressive river walleyes of autumn
Prime time for moving-water, vertical jigging tactics.
Pro Tip of the Week: Cold-front strategies
One of the things to do in a cold front is to look for walleyes to be a little bit deeper than they were.
Tip: Trolling cranks for big walleyes – video
Rainy Lake guide Donnie O’Bert shares some A-plus info that will help you catch more walleyes trolling crankbaits.
Muskies of the fall: suckers for suckers
Suckers come into their own when water temperatures drop and lakes turn over.
Minnesota Pro Tip of the Week: Orange sinker getting walleyes on Mille Lacs
They see this little orange thing, and they turn towards the lure which is making some noise, and they see the minnow and just nab it.
Minnesota Pro Tip of the Week: On the Mississippi, fish moving out of Pepin
The easiest way to get them is by trolling shad-bodied crankbaits.
Deep-water crappies in the fall
By Angling Buzz Cooling water temperatures create chaos in the shallower water of lakes and reservoirs. Frigid rains and howling winds mix the surface layers, with the turbulence eventually reaching down to and disrupting the
