Tips & Features
Can’t-miss spring bassin’ tactic: Ned rigs
Sometimes a little finesse is required to catch early-season bass.
Traverse, Big Stone lakes at top of their walleye game
We managed nice limits of 16- to 19-inch walleyes, and it really didn’t matter where we went; just cover water and stay on the move.
Tips for early-season smallie fishing
Smallmouths typically look for rock, boulders, and gravel locations in which to bed. Reefs and shorelines that offer this rock rubble bottom are prime.
Think small this spring – think panfish
I like the idea of fishing close to home. I also like a nice pile of panfish to clean and to fry up golden brown. Spring is the time, now more than ever.
Trout angling popularity growing in Minnesota
But what exactly is behind the trend – whether it’s an increasing population or the sport itself improving with increased access and higher catch rates – is a hard thing to determine.
Figure 8s, cast-backs and comebacks for muskies
Interestingly, muskie hunters are really the only group of freshwater anglers that refer to follows as part of their overall fishing experience. It is quite common for muskie anglers to discuss how many follows they
Understanding post-spawn walleye migration is critical to success
Most of these late-departing, summer river walleyes are caught incidentally by anglers targeting other species, but those fishing specifically for walleye can catch them with by casting shallow-running crankbaits, bodybaits or jig-and-plastic combinations.
Three baits for early-season muskies
What are these special lures? The first is a small bucktail spinner, the second a 6- to 7-inch minnowbait, and the third a 7-inch dive-and-rise-style jerkbait.
‘Grateful’ for smallmouths: an angling deadhead
This is a story of smallmouth bass on the Way-Upper Susquehanna River, and how little bass became bigger bass, and bigger. It’s also the story of a famous Grateful Dead concert at Cornell University in
