Category: featured
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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…
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Downsized Muskies
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: July 10, 2012 If you’re muskie fishing during spring and early summer, a standby piece of advice you’ve probably heard repeatedly and absorbed is that it’s necessary to downsize your baits in order to catch fish. During this season, as water temperatures remain cool and most common forage species…
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Think Small For Early Season Muskies
By: Adam Glickman – Date Posted: May 11, 2012 I stood knee deep in the small river with its root beer colored water rolling around my legs. My casting target was the eddy behind a large boulder. The current all around was swift, so I lead my mark upstream and cast beyond the boulder. I…
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100 Degree Walleyes
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: July 10, 2012 Daytime fishing for walleyes on your nearest river system during the warm summer months often means seeking out the deepest pools you can access, long hours of patiently waiting for fish to bite, and excessive sun burns. In all my years of fishing rivers for walleyes,…
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Trash Fish Truths
By: David Graham – Date Posted: July 10, 2012 “We as fishermen are as unique in our differences individually as the fish we pursue, and yet at the core of each fisherman there is a thirst for adventure, and the thrill of the catch which we all share despite our different philosophies and beliefs…” As…