Category: Articles
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The Dam River Walleye Correlation
By Andrew Ragas The presence of dams impacts anglers as much as they do migratory fish species. The 21st Century is becoming a golden era for re-establishing fish populations at all-time highs. River walleyes are greatly benefiting from dam removals today.
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The Run and Gunner
By Robert Conley & Robert Fuchs Lightweight and agility form the base for hit and run tactics, fast moving, quick striking, until he finds actively feeding fish. Only carrying minimum gear, bare to the bone, constantly on the go… It’s a challenging task but when well executed it can be tremendously rewarding, laying the foundation to future success…
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Winter Gear That’s HOT on ICE for 2014
By Tony Boshold As a touring tournament ice fisherman and guide, Tony Boshold demands the best from his gear and the manufacturers he aligns himself with. It has taken him over ten years to find the right combination of companies, and getting them to develop what ice anglers need and can ask for.
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Three New Ways To Use Old Soft Plastic Rigs
By Lawrence Taylor If you call yourself a bass fisherman, you likely know the three basic soft-plastic rigs, the two named after states and the one that’s wacky. What you may be unaware of, however, is that you’re not using them to their full potential. Here are three ways to use those rigs to catch…
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Ice Destination: Lake of the Woods
Contributed Story This legendary lake that straddles the U.S./Canada border serves up outstanding ice fishing through a long season that is already underway. Lake of the Woods stands out as one of the world’s most renowned ice-fishing destinations. Straddling the U.S./Canada border, with the U.S. portion in Minnesota, this massive lake freezes early and stays…
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Winter Snook on Artificial Lures
By David A. Brown Jason Stock’s a Florida fishing guide, not an economist. Nevertheless, he understands the law of supply and demand, so when late fall drives out the remaining parcels of the baitfish schools that were so prevalent during the warm season, he knows that his favorite lures will quickly become a more valued…
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Put More Steelhead On Ice
By Nathan Shore Steelhead staging outside Great Lakes river mouths create some of the most intense sporting opportunities of the winter season. The average specimen is 8 pounds of sleek, well-conditioned muscle.
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Catch More Crowded Crappies
By Daniel Quade Visions of icing slab crappies seldom include crowds of anglers. More often, sweet dreams of icy nirvana center on remote backcountry waters or hidden gems that somehow fly under the masses’ radar. However, while untapped fisheries can be dynamite, you can also enjoy banner catches on waters besieged by the bucket brigade.
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Boshold and Hoffman hoist St. Croix “Gold”
Isle, MN (December 23, 2013) – When detecting tournament winning bites suddenly becomes as tricky as fishing with bare phalanges in a blizzard, you’d best be gripping one finely-tuned angling instrument. At the 2013 North American Ice Fishing Championship (NAIFC), seventy-five top teams arrived just in time for a good old-fashioned northcountry cold front. The…
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One Time, One Place for Alabama Largemouth
By Millard Rooney If you could be on the water in Alabama only one week out of the year and wanted the best largemouth fishing for numbers and quality, where would you go and what would you throw? It’s a tough question, given the ample opportunities for great largemouth bass fishing on the Tennessee River…