Category: Crappie, Bluegill, Sunfish & Perch
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Bluegills: The Gateway Species
Dr. Jason Halfen – The Technological Angler Ice fishing’s essential targets – bluegills – prove perfect for both introducing anglers to the sport and mastering your game.
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Lake Michigan Perch
By Tim Hyvonen Over that last ten years there has been a growing trend when it comes to fishing for Lake Michigan perch. With their populations depleting and not at the same levels they once were, catching perch is becoming more difficult annually. I hear time and time again, “There aren’t any perch left in…
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Poking Around for Ontario Crappies
By JP Bushey Successful crappie hunting this time of season ‘up north’ is usually two scoops of an open mind with a pinch of simple presentations. Fish early on will use some oddball spots. Here’s a few to check.
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Uprooting Spring Crappies
By Andrew Ragas Spring time is crappie time, and for me the first prolonged warm spell in May signifies the arrival of the crappies in shallow water. Schools of spawning crappies will migrate from main lake areas, seeking the thickest, most luscious shallow water cover to lay eggs in protection. Wood cover, weed beds, and…
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Spider Rigging Comes North
By Jim Gronaw Ken Smith, of Sharon , Pennsylvania, had a roomy cooler with a bag of ice. He told me that we would have no problem putting slab crappies in there. ‘We just gotta’ find them’ he said. We were fishing 13,000 acre Pymatuning Lake, a flood control, flatland reservoir that bordered Ohio and…
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Casting for Crappie
By Brad Wiegmann When it comes to catching crappie there are several techniques you can use. Of course spider rigging is popular along with long lining. However, just casting for crappie would be the number one way with crappie anglers. Now there is more to casting for crappie than flipping the bail and raring back…
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Drop Shot Tactics for Trophy Panfish
By Jim Gronaw We weren’t on the bank long before I heard my son, Matt yell ‘got em’ and I looked over to see his long, 11 foot spinning rod arched heavily under the weight of a good fish. We were ‘drop-shot’ fishing…a way to present a bait or lure to deeper, weed-hugging panfish and…
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Back to Basics, Simple Pole and Line Panfishing.
By Jim Gronaw One of the coolest things about the sport of fishing is that it can be as complicated, or as simple, as you want to make it. Yes, there are more advancements, electronics, lures, devices and items of seemingly great value on today’s angling market. All are intended to put more fish in…
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How to Catch More Crappie
By Brad Wiegmann I want more. You want more. We all want more. More, more, more crappie. It’s not that we are greedy, but crappie sure taste good and they are fun to catch. Anyone can catch a few crappie out fishing, but to successfully put a limit in the livewell it takes more than…
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Investing In A Child
By Jim Gronaw As a child growing up in the Randallstown , Baltimore area, I was blessed to be in a region that was still country in the mid 1960’s, and there were numerous options for fishing back in that day. There were many farmponds around, some of which still exist to this day. And…