Tips & Features
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.
Targeting tough-bite bass
Persistence and patience the key when the bass aren’t feeding. And when they do happen to hit, it’s more of a reflex than anything. So use that knowledge to your advantage.
Twin Cities Fishing Report – May 10, 2020
Another Minnesota Fishing Opener has come and gone. It was certainly an interesting and challenging one, but we did find some fish – with a slightly different approach, though.
On opening day, harass some bass
Minnesota’s C&R bass season begins May 9 – except in the northeast, where possession season opens.
Outdoor News video: Grow your own shiitake mushrooms
In this Outdoor News video, Kathy Yerich, author of “Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest,” demonstrates – with help from Mike Hehner – the do-it-yourself process to creating shiitake mushroom logs.
Graduating from fishing elementary school
Choosing the right lure option for a kid’s first casting experience.
Twin Cities Fishing Report – May 4, 2020
Water temps are flirting with 60 degrees. The spring transition is progressing nicely and the fish continue to hold in their appropriate patterns. Oh, and the Minnesota Fishing Opener is less than a week away,
