Category: featured
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Applying Side Scan Sonar to Wingdam Walleye Fishing
By: Kenny Lookingbill – Date Posted: July 10, 2012 Advances in fishing technology have come a long way in the past 20 years. One of the more recent innovations in fishing are side scan sonars. The technology has actually been in existence for more than 60 years, and was first used in US submarines. Companies…
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Secrets of the Carp Mafia
About a year ago, I got hooked up with a bad crowd of fishermen at a local lake. Was bound to happen…I had been down on my luck for a while and it seemed I just couldn’t shake the funk. No bluegills, cats weren’t biting and one thing just led to another. It was then…
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Asian Carp Misconceptions
By: Kenny Lookingbill – Date Posted: May 11, 2011 Asian carp are the most infamous aquatic invasive species of all time. As a result, there are many fallacies and conspiracy theories about these fish among the general public. Because of my profession as an aquatic ecologist, I have heard endless stories about this group of…
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Drop Shot Like It’s Hot
By: Chris Loveless – Date Posted: May 11, 2012 Anyone who has ever been out fishing with me for a day knows there is one set-up I always have by my side…. my drop shot rod. Traditionally drop shot fishing is a technique used to vertically jig plastic baits such as worm or minnow imitations…
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Tube Trick Smallmouth Bass
By: Andrew Ragas The spring fishing season and its weather inconsistencies often resembles the shape of a roller coaster that is full of inclines and declines. For instance, there are periods of warmth which lead to good fishing, periods of cold which lead to miserable fishing, and never a consistent happy medium that is somewhere…
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Whiskered Warriors: Natural Lakes Channel Catfish
By: Todd Wendorf – Date Posted: May 11, 2012 We have a dilemma. With the unusually early, warm spring the normal fishing patterns are all screwed up. Steelhead season began and ended very early in March. Lake Michigan spring run browns and lake trout have come and gone. So what’s a guy to do?
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Southern Comfort Buffalo Fish
By: David Graham – Date Posted: May 11, 2012 A new career opportunity lead to my recent relocation from coastal South Carolina to the hot, spacious terrain of South Texas. This ‘westward trek’ rekindled childhood memories of fishing the local creeks of northeast Oklahoma and southwest Arkansas with my brothers and Dad.
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The Bluegill Spoon Connection
By: Bill Modica – Date Posted: May 11, 2012 It was a warm sunny afternoon back in the summer of 1997. The morning bluegill bite had ended hours before, and my traditional offerings of small jigs tipped with bits of night crawlers that had worked so well for me earlier in the day, was now…
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Wade Small Rivers For Crappies
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: May 5, 2012 When it comes to crappie fishing, lakes and reservoirs are the most frequented destinations for serious anglers. However, many of them fail to realize that small streams and river systems offer excellent fishing opportunities as well. Rather than fish for crappies by boat on the pressured…
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Glide Time Muskies
By: Andrew Ragas – Date Posted: December 11, 2011 It was a cold and snowy February, 2011 morning. Not thrilled about going outside to shovel the snow, I woke up with the intentions of turning on the television. It seems that whenever I get the chance to watch any Saturday morning television, I turn on…