Category: News & Media
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Lowrance Screenshots of the Year
By Andrew Ragas Fishing-Headquarters is not affiliated with Lowrance Marine Electronics. Their products solely help me catch more fish and enable me to gain a better understanding of the underwater environment and ecosystem beneath the water’s surface. Throughout the open water season I run HDS and Elite units in my boats. Over the course of…
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Top Smallmouth Bass Baits of 2013
By Andrew Ragas In April, we put together a list of ten premier smallmouth bass fishing presentations that should be players in your boat. Now that our open water fishing season has concluded, we glance back at the dominating baits and presentations that screamed success for big smallmouth bass in 2013.
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November Muskies and Casting For Hail Marys
By Andrew Ragas Each November a phenomenon occurs in some our, deep, clear and colder Northern waters. If you don’t fish for muskies or any meaningful trophy fish this late in the season, you may think it involves winterizing the boat or preparing for first ice. However, if you understand the forage complexions and underwater…
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Maintaining Trophy Panfish Fisheries
By Andrew Ragas, with Jim Gronaw Panfish are the largest, most popular, and widespread freshwater fish species in the nation. Because these species can be terribly prolific in certain waters, stocking is generally not required for other than species introductions or in highly used public fishing waters. But when the largest fish of any system…
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Top 3 Insights for Catching Fall Muskies
By Andrew Ragas The fall season is rapidly concluding for most of us living within the musky range. Additionally the open seasons for muskellunge fishing in some parts of the country are drawing to an end as well. But for anglers who still have time to catch their fish of a lifetime, or have plans…
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First-Freeze Walleyes On Featureless Lakes
By Daniel Quade A shout echoes unanswered across the barren icepack of Minnesota’s massive Upper Red Lake. It’s hardly a call for help, much less a greeting. It’s veteran walleye guide Jonny Petrowske, proving a point about getting away from the crowd to corral first-ice ’eyes.
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Where to Find and How To Catch Florida Gulf Coast Redfish In the Fall
By William Redmond They don’t all make the journey, but the annual spawning aggregations of Florida’s Gulf Coast redfish create a dynamite opportunity for anglers to target big numbers of redfish, with a good chance of locking horns with a legitimate bull.
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Fall Froggin’
By Abe Smith Frost on the pumpkin doesn’t mean it’s time to put the frogs away. Late fall is a great time to catch bass on hollow body frogs, and here’s advice from the best fishing pros in the business on getting the most out of your autumnal amphibian angling.
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Specialize Your Small Fishing Boat With Custom Modifications
In this short video we talk about rebuilding, modifying, and customizing small fishing boats in order to best suit your fishing needs. In winter and spring 2013, we gutted a 14 foot aluminum jon boat and rebuilt it from within the interior to exterior, and then outfitted it with accessories to maximize its performance. Small…
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Last-Chance Walleyes
By Daniel Quade Timing is everything in life, and nowhere is this truer than in walleye fishing. Hover over a hot reef during a suicide bite and hungry ’eyes make you a hero. Try the same tactics after a crushing cold front, however, and you’ll plummet from the penthouse to the outhouse. This explains why…