Category: News & Media
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Breaking Barriers for Big Muskies
By Cory Allen It Might As Well Be Spring: I’m a restless as a willow in a windstorm; I’m as giddy as a baby in a swing. I swear that I have spring fever, as do most musky anglers this time of year. Here they sit, holed up in their dens, clinging rabidly to a…
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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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Pounding River Walleyes and Sauger
By Roy Vivian One of the biggest misconceptions in today’s walleye world is the encouragement to use the lightest jig possible. Walleyes are known to be finicky, and are short biters, thus the strategy is logical. Traditional thinking often says to use the lightest jig the current allows in order to maintain steady bottom contact.…
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American Shad, Part Deux
By David Graham They’re back… Along the East coast the American Shad are making their annual run from the oceans to our rivers. For me, this signals the real beginning of the New Year’s fishing season. For the dormant cold-weather angler like myself, the shad run is the prime opportunity to find plenty of action…
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Strip Tease Muskies
By Chris Willen When most people think about late season and cold water musky fishing they think giant rubber and suckers being dragged beneath a bobber. Although both are amazing ideas, I’m here to tell you there’s another method worth adding to the list.
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Coldwater Steelheads
By Tim Hyvonen When you think of ice fishing, most anglers turn to bluegills and crappies but there are a select few who explore the ideas of chrome. While most ice fishermen are in pursuit of other species, there are a few of us strapping on waders and tugging through snow along the Lake Michigan…
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Mud Spelled Backwards is “Dum”
By Cory Allen The immortal words of Mel Blanc ring true in their classic Warner Bros. context, but in the art of pursuing muskies that’s about where the humor ends. Too many anglers chagrin and curse in the wind when they see their favorite waters turn to Nesquik, especially riverine systems.
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Winning The Walleye Trolling War on Lake Ontario’s Bay of Quinte
By JP Bushey Jutting eastward from the inland sea that is Lake Ontario, The Bay Of Quinte is on our planet’s short list of fisheries for walleye over ten pounds. Insulated from the big lake and her mood swings, The Bay really is a world unto itself. Walleye fishermen use a battery of methods, in…
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First Ice Tactics and Safety
By Joseph Alfe Before we get into the fun stuff, we need to take a minute to discuss first ice safety. Safety should be the first thing on your mind while ice fishing, and this is never truer than during first ice. To understand ice safety, we must first understand ice and how it forms.