Author: Fishing Headquarters
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Figureight Musky Gear and RS Nets Has Your Next Catch In The Bag
By Matt Lynch Today anglers have numerous options to choose from for quality fish landing gear. I’ve had a number of these products over the years to use myself, namely nets. Each net I have tried has strong suits, and while I’m not going to bash any of the others, I have found my new…
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Bass in the Grass, Sandgrass Smallmouths
By Andrew Ragas Clustered throughout northern Wisconsin’s wilderness landscape is the upper Midwest’s most extensive collection of inland freshwater lakes. From infertile rocky oligotrophic cold water lakes, to fertile habitat mesotrophic lakes, and heavily vegetated and nutrient-rich eutrophic waters, the northwoods has a lake type for all bass fishermen and their preferred styles of angling.
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Mayfly Hatches, Tapping into the Food Chain
By Adam M. Glickman Mayfly and other insect hatches are often thought of in a very negative manner by summertime fishermen who fail to produce good results when these forage abundances occur. Common thought is that fish gorge themselves on the heavy presence of insects and become too “full” to eat any more.
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Examining the Reality of Invasive Species
By Adam M. Glickman For over 20 years now, those who utilize WI and MN waters have been exposed to the effects of aquatic invasive species, efforts to control them, and campaigns to make the public more aware of them. I would define the modern and commonly used term “invasive species” as certain species that would…
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Wisconsin and Minnesota Honest Musky Fishing Report, July 2017
By Adam M. Glickman After a streak of very hot weather in Early June, air temperatures moderated and so did elevated water temperatures. As of 7-2-17, water temperatures were low compared to the same time in recent years prior. In many of the musky rivers I frequent, water had been holding steady at 69-70 F,…
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Pressured Musky Tactics
By Adam M. Glickman On many of our more pressured musky lakes, a common trend is that bass and walleye fishermen per capita end up taking more strikes from muskies than do those using traditional musky tactics. Of course, this begs the response that this is only because there are more bass and walleye fishermen…
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Understanding Stocked vs. Wild Gamefish Resources
By Adam M. Glickman Most of our gamefish resources in WI and MN are maintained by natural reproduction within their own water body. However, some of our most popular individual gamefish populations are maintained by stocking hatchery produced fish into certain designated environments. Learning to identify between stocked and wild gamefish resources is important for environmental,…
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Wisconsin and Minnesota Honest Musky Fishing Report, June 2017
By Adam M. Glickman The progression of spring has been very slow this year. Winter left early, but since then continual cold fronts have stalled out any real warming water trends. As early as the 2nd week of April, we were catching crappies out of 64 F water in lakes in southern MN. Yet, on…
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Spring Warming Water Trends and Fishing Success
By Adam M. Glickman I think that fishermen (whether they realize it or not) usually succeed or fail based on water temperature. I am forthcoming with this thought, and have made it known as often a I could.
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Muskies at the 2017 Wisconsin Conservation Congress Spring Hearing
By Adam M. Glickman On April 10th I voted at the Wisconsin Spring Hearing on many fishing related questions. In regard to my interests, the most important question of the vote was number 39, which concerned implementing an annual musky tag which would require a tag to harvest a musky and limit the harvest to…