Category: Articles
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Tournament Day
By Robert Conley 08/25/13 – This date had been circled on my calendar for months. The nerves and excitement building each and every time I saw it. What would it be like? How would it turn out? Was I ready for this? Always sitting in the back of my mind every time I hit the…
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Northern Pike on the Cooldown
When fishing for northern pike in late summer and early fall, look for drastic weather changes and cooling temperatures to trigger feeding binges of peak pike activity. Anglers can catch big fish on any cast during any portion of the season. As it happens with every species of fish, the odds obviously rise during specific…
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Lake of the Woods Muskellunge Mystique
Lake of the Woods, a million acre freshwater sea bordering the United States and Canada, boasts a muskellunge fishery that is among North America’s best. Fishing-Headquarters Magazine takes you on a pictorial journey, through the eyes of a Canon DSLR camera lens, that any serious angler should add to the lifetime bucketlist for muskie trips…
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Wobble Bobbin’ Walleyes
By Daniel Quade Complex presentations get plenty of press these days, but few walleye tactics are as deadly—or as easy to fish—as the simple slip-bobber rig. With a well-balanced float, you can efficiently and precisely suspend mouthwatering live bait in front of hungry ’eyes. Plus, you know exactly when a fish has inhaled your bait.
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Monolith Mapping to Bronzebacks
By Jim Edlund Like the weather‐beaten parchment of some maritime legend, the map of Rainy Lake should read “Here Be Dragons.” Straddling the border between Minnesota and Ontario, Rainy is a multi‐species playground teeming with monsters: fat walleyes, giant crappies, big pike and linebacker smallmouth bass. With an expansive 220,000 acres of world‐class fishing, it…
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Fishing Wilderness Lakes
By Andrew Ragas Thousands of years ago, following the melt of the ice age, specific regions of North America and its landscape were littered by the abundant remnants of glaciers in the form of wilderness lakes. Scattered, yet heavily concentrated, throughout the lakeland regions of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, The Dakotas, and several areas of Canada,…
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Weeding out Smallmouth Bass
By Andrew Ragas Smallmouth bass prefer sand, rocks and wood in conjunction to major depth contour. However, they can also be found using weedlines at certain times of the year. On natural lakes and reservoirs, anglers can expect to find big smallmouths in the underfished habitat of weeds.
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Musky on the Fly, Stepping Up Your Game
By Chris Willen Taking your musky fly fishing to the next level takes serious dedication and time on the water. If you are serious about putting fish in the boat consistently you need to be on your A game.
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Wading for River Smallmouths
By Robert Conley & Robert Fuchs As the alarm sounds you will always laugh to yourself at its irrelevance, you have been lying there with your eyes open counting down the minutes. Is it the part of your brain that is instinctively waiting for the sound? Is it the anxiety that you didn’t pack everything…
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Pay Lake Carping
By David Graham In the South, even the smallest change is often perceived as an unwelcomed threat to one’s way of life. Southern anglers often display the same pugnacious fortitude in traditional fishing ideals. For the multi-species enthusiast working to eliminate the “trash fish” mentality of old fashioned anglers, the South is a tough battle…