What a rollercoasters spring we’ve had here in Minnesota with lots of ups and downs as us anglers just hang on for the ride. Prolonged periods of cold weather, snow,…
Walleye & Sauger
Walleye tips & Battle of the Sexes
James Holst demonstrates live-bait walleye techniques with Bill Doughtery, owner of Rainy Lake Houseboats, and then gets behind the camera to film his friends competing in a heated Guys Vs.…
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…
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…
New leadcore for suspending ‘eyes
Trolling big crankbaits behind planer boards on Sufix’s new 832 Advanced Lead Core line is an emerging technique to target mid-summer walleyes suspending over deep, structureless basins. While demonstrating this…
Plastics tactics for mid-summer walleye
Jig-and-plastic combos catch lake-dwelling walleyes in spring, summer and fall – not just on rivers in the pre-spawn period. While demonstrating productive mid-summer, walleyes with soft-plastics, James Holst and Quintin…
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…
Open-water winter ‘eyes on plastic
Dragging big, soft-plastic baits that impart a lot of action when retrieved slowly will yield dozens of late-winter, open-water, river walleyes. While demonstrating productive rigging and trolling tactics on the…