The tradition of the spring Walleye & White Bass runs on the Wolf / Fox Rivers (Winnebago System) dates back to long before I was born – and most likely…
Reports
Highwater Cats
An Old Timer once told me that “You don’t fish Saugers on Pool 3 until the lilacs start to bloom!”¨ And that sure seems to be the case, but the…
Cold weather hot action continues in South Dakota
With temperatures below freezing and daytimes highs in the upper 30s to 40s the walleyes in South Dakota are caught in somewhat of a rut. We still have not seen…
Cold Water Cranking on Mille Lacs
Last Saturday after what always seemed like the longest week of the year the MN fishing opener finally arrived. And just as we’ve been doing every Spring for the past…
Walleye post spawn action on the border!
While I sit here with a cracked rib, lamenting lost fishing/work time I finally am getting this post out. This past week the Menominee River found only a handful of…
Lake Wisconsin Post Spawn Walleye Fishing
Lower water levels and improving water temps did a lot to improve the walleye & sauger bite this past weekend on Lake Wisconsin. Many of the fish appeared to have…
Racine Coho salmon
First outing of the year and typically more fish around Racine than Milwaukee so the extra time on the road usually worth it. Friends had been doing well near the…
SD/NE Combo Hunt
One of the best ways to become a good turkey hunter is to hunt new places. Each bird we call at is an individual, yet all turkeys show some of…
Early Season Lessons – State of the Turkeys
I’ve been out quite a bit in the past week and a half, trying to slap a tag on a few Nebraska birds, while also trying to keep tabs on…
C/R Bass Opener on Lake St. Clair
It was tough to leave home with the big Walleye running in the Menominee, but I had a trip on my “bucket list” planned for a long time to this…
Menominee River – Pre & Post Spawn Walleyes
Last weekend, 90% of the fish we caught were still full of spawn and the bait of choice was a 3/16oz jig tipped with a ringworm or moxi. A blade…
Open Water is here in Sodak
With ice season coming to an end for me on the 6th and the tail end of the snow goose migration I was just a bit tardy on getting on…
Walleye fishing on Green Bays Western Shore
With a large amount of Green Bay still having ice cover there are areas in the lower Bay and along the southwest shore that have some open water areas. Tuesday…
Lake Erie Port Clinton Ohio 4-18 to 4-21
Well with most of the bay of Green Bay still being ice covered last week and getting a little tired of all the cold weather we headed out on our…
Spin Casting for Small Stream Trout
I kicked off my soft water season this past weekend in by hitting a small Western WI stream in search of the wily trout. I’ve been thinking about giving it…
Pre-Spawn Walleyes on Green Bays Tributary Rivers
To a die-hard walleye fishing fanatic, few things rank higher than fishing for pre-spawn walleyes on the tributary rivers of Green Bay. So when an open boat seat and an…
MN “B” Season Lightning Hunt
I’ll never forget taking out a first-time turkey hunter almost 10 years ago, who upon picking up his flopping bird less than 2 hours into the first morning’s hunt, had…
Fishing report Lake Puckaway, Wi.
Well its been a up and down year for water temps on Lake Puckaway. One week we have 54 degrees and few days later its back down to 41 degrees.…
Pulling Wire Targeting Male Walleyes
Pulling Wire…. I normally don’t refer to Handlining as “Pulling Wire” but if you read up on where this started and how it was originated that’s where it comes from……
Blades, Blades, and More Blades
Blades has been a bait/technique that myself and my fishing buddy Ryan have been wanting to learn for a long time. Well that time came this last weekend down at…