Category: Walleye & Sauger
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Erie Walleye Anglers Take Notice of Perfect 10
By Abe Smith Charter captains on the Great Lakes don’t waste much time testing every new lure that hits the market. They know the two or three best baits for trolling for walleyes and that’s that. Don’t even bring a new lure to the party. So, when a lure crashes in from nowhere to enter…
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Winter Tailrace Walleyes and Sauger
By Roy Vivian As the days get shorter and colder a majority of walleye anglers winterize their boats. Avid open water anglers will chase other passions like sitting in a tree waiting for a trophy to go by or on a bucket staring down a hole. I will spend some time on the hard water…
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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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First-Freeze Walleyes On Featureless Lakes
By Daniel Quade A shout echoes unanswered across the barren icepack of Minnesota’s massive Upper Red Lake. It’s hardly a call for help, much less a greeting. It’s veteran walleye guide Jonny Petrowske, proving a point about getting away from the crowd to corral first-ice ’eyes.
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Last-Chance Walleyes
By Daniel Quade Timing is everything in life, and nowhere is this truer than in walleye fishing. Hover over a hot reef during a suicide bite and hungry ’eyes make you a hero. Try the same tactics after a crushing cold front, however, and you’ll plummet from the penthouse to the outhouse. This explains why…
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Flip and Pitch for Fall Walleyes
By Nathan Shore All summer walleyes have been in deep water following baitfish around, but come September and the start of cooler weather many those baitfish head back to shallower water to spawn. Walleyes follow, and flipping and pitching a jig in shallow water becomes the No. 1 tactic for boating a big limit.
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Match The Migration For More Walleyes
By Nathan Shore The most important factor in any walleye presentation isn’t the lure, technique, trolling speed or line size. All those things can be as important as the color of your boat. Like the way to a man’s heart, the way to walleyes is through their stomachs, and that means that your knowledge of…
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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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Lindner “Goes Green” On Summer Walleyes
By Jack Busby For over 50 years Al and Ron Lindner have been helping anglers locate and catch fish. From the seminal “Secret Teachings” formula of F + L + P = Success to FRS (Fish Response System), decades of info-packed TV and radio fishing programming, countless DVDs, to Lindner Media’s “Angling Edge” TV series,…
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Tweaking Big Lake Tactics for Teensier Water ‘Eyes
By Mitch Eeagan Walleyes are walleyes no matter where they wander. As a general rule, whether they reside in inland lakes, rivers, reservoirs or the Great Lakes, their year-round habits are shaped by two things: spawning and eating. With that said, you’d think the same techniques would work the same wonders for conjuring up strikes…