Well with some open water spots FINNALY starting to show I think I can dust off the open water gear and ready the big tacklebox. Anyway the fast few weeks…
Reports
Door County Pike Fishing April 27th
This spring has been by far the slowest start to the open water Northern Pike fishing I have seen in a long time. Water temps in some of the areas…
Menominee River Walleyes
Pete grunted "Fish on!!!"…I knew the little Paddletail had again seduced a nice Walleye to bite! After a good battle on his LE 63MXF and 6# mono, I slid the…
Door County Sturgeon Bay
Well as most of us know winter just will not say good bye this year with more snow and cold temperatures in the forecast it is still going to be…
Pool 4 report 3-25-13 thru 4-9-13
My annual late March pilgrimage to P-4 started with a nice “thump” on my jig/Moxie combo drifting just inside the current seam. I was with five regular buddies from home…
Mississippi River Pool 4 4-6-2013
Not having been on the river nearly as much as I would like to this year it has changed the amount of research I do before every trip. As with…
OVERTIME……late march early april report
About a month back I posted how March is ice fishing’s 4th quarter. Well if that is the case April is overtime, and you can bet I am thanking the…
Late Ice Iowa Perch!
When you think about the end of March in Eastern Iowa, you think about spring and warm temps. When my dad called me this week and told me I better…
Northern MN – Late Ice Panfish Report
I named this a late-ice panfish report almost tongue-in-cheek given a few realities from our trip. First, the Leech lake area is far from “late-ice” with as much as 2…
Mid March report from Sodak
With Winter holding its grip pretty tight on the western fringe of the ice belt we have plenty of ice as well as snow to go with it out in…
Mississippi River Pool 4 3/16/13
After a long winter, which still doesn’t seem to want to go away, and not to many trips to pool 4 over the last year I have finally been able…
The Fox River Run is ON!
Pete Yake took three vacation day this week to fish the walleye run in DePere, WI. The weather was brutal but the fish didn’t care, so neither did we. I…
Early March South Dakota Report
With it being March 12th we are almost to mid march, although it feels like mid january lately. Switching weather systems, extreme wind, and some small snowstorms have made fishing…
Abominable Snow Gills!
Talk about getting some stange looks from my co-workers, but when I checked the weather and noticed a big storm front would be moving through last Saturday, there I was…
Great Day With DAD!
What can I say about this year that you haven’t already said? Most of the local lakes in Eastern Central Iowa are a bust this year. Plenty of fish with…
East-Central Florida Flats/Back-Country Trout
This past week I was chased south out of Minnesota on the heels of a winter storm that almost kept us on the ground. Florida was the destination, and amongst…
Pasha Lake Report – February… say what?
Despite the 2-3 feet of fresh powder on the ground, Pasha Lake guests will not be stopped. Last week the Steve Sheppard crew from Southern Ontario put an ice fishing…
An Awesome Start to Late Season Panfishing!
One of the things that really keeps me excited about ice fishing over the course of an entire season is continually challenging myself to target multiple species and finding new…
pre and post cold front out in Sodak
With some whacky weather moving through the uppermidwest the past couple weeks it has been tough to keep fish on a pattern as far as location goes as well as…
Bite Still Strong in Crazy Weather on Mille Lacs!
As the shallow water bite that James and I fished earlier in the season continues to taper off with the thicker ice and snow killing off the weeds it’s now…