Tips & Features
Spring flipping and other vegetation tactics for pocket crappies
Where there’s one slab, there’s more, so tune up your skills and work the cover correctly.
Wrangling bass with wacky worms
Wacky worms can be especially effective coaxing bass when the bite is tough. Try going dead-stick style and leave it alone. For how long? Let the bass decide.
Here’s your best minnow option for catching walleyes
A the end of the day, the shiner minnow is king, and learning to fish this imperial minnow will get you some of the biggest walleyes you catch.
Give walleyes the slip (bobber) this spring
Slip bobbers often save the day during tough fishing conditions. Early in the season, this simple and effective presentation is often at its best.
Crappies are king in May
Concentrating on crappies, both white and black, and trying to figure out if they had distinct food preferences.
Catch odd fish for an offbeat good time
Fallfish offers anglers a great chance of success wherever they are targeted.
Plan B Strategies for fishing Sulphur hatches in high water
If the sulphur fishing gets tough this spring, you might fish upstream areas, check out smaller freestone waters, and fish the edges of your usual haunts if the water is high.
Take a river hike for Ohio Pike
The trouble with storybook runs is they are hard to find on the average river bordered by land open to the public. Canoes, kayaks, and small boats are a few ways around this.
The scent factor
How scent can be a deterrent – and tips for how you can make it less of a problem.
