Author: Fishing Headquarters
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Stankx Bait Company: Custom Soft Plastics
By: Andrew Ragas Since spring of 2009, I have been heavily involved with a tackle company known as Stankx Bait Company. They are located in Kalamazoo, Michigan. All products are made from home, and their bags may be found at select retail locations throughout Michigan. Recently, the company has been slowly expanding to other outlets…
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Late Fall Nighttime Crappies
By: Kenny Lookingbill – Date Posted: October, 2010 It’s been two years since that very cold mid-November day of autumn 2008. I recall fishing the Du Page River in Chicago’s western suburbs. We caught some quality rock bass and smallmouth bass. As our daylight was dwindling in late afternoon, we left for a dinner break…
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Solar Bat Sunglasses: Now You Can Fish In The Sun!
By: Andrew Ragas As everyone likely stumbles into the 2013 fishing season with sun stroke, I would like to provide a review on my positive experiences thus far with Solar Bat sunglasses. For my 2012 fishing season, I placed an order for three models. All three were related to fishing in some specific way. Each…
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Silver Magic: Cisco Spawn Muskies
By: Adam M. Glickman For most anglers, late November in Wisconsin and Minnesota looks like a bleak time. Summer is long since gone and winter is right around the corner. To the untrained eye, it looks like both the land and water is locking down and closing up shop. However, nothing could be further from…
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Muskie Suckers For History
By: Adam M. Glickman Years of live bait fishing for muskies has led me to one of the few truths in all of musky fishing: Muskies are genetically predetermined to love white suckers. The response of muskies towards white suckers is uncanny. That includes muskies that are extremely pressured or perhaps have seen very few…
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How to Train Your Dragon: Teaching Old Muskies New Tricks
By: Cory Allen Participating in a sport that is inherently conducted mostly on a battlefield of perception, interpretation, and imagination fathoms below our fiberglass footing. Few are the occasions when the gap between angler and adversary is bridged to the level where they can not only go toe-to-toe, but meet eye-to-eye before locking horns. In…
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Muskie Catch & Release Procedures
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: September 1, 2012 Every once in a while, I receive reader feedback pertaining to past stories, write-ups, video, and photos. One in particular, which was received earlier this morning, is my underwritten topic concerning the catch and release aspect of musky fishing. The procedure of a quick catch-photo-release and…
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The Frontier of Small Watercraft
By: David Graham – Date Posted: September 1, 2012 East Texas and Oklahoma are home to some of the largest fish in North America. During the last six months I divided my time between a new job opportunity and pursuing some of these outstanding, rugged fish. Even before relocating to Texas I had begun pondering…
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Kayak Fishing: Any Water, Any Time
By: Chris Loveless – Date Posted: September 1, 2012 Like many anglers who become serious about fishing and try turning their passions into a reality, I spent the last couple years dreaming of buying a boat. Planning for such a purchase required lots of strategy as I did not want anything very big. Living in…
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Losing a Fishing Buddy
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: September 1, 2012 Dogs are more than pets. By establishing a special bond with them, they eventually become the best fishing buddies an angler can ask for. During the latter part of her eight and a half years with the family, my precious Nika, a flat coated retriever and…