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Fishing Crankbaits for Walleye new

(Crank-tim-a-da-tion): A fearfulness of crankbaits. Lacking the confidence to trust bodybaits. To be utterly intimidated by hard-bodied lures. Ex: “Tom suffered from cranktimidation, not having the confidence to employ the lure even when the fishing...

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Carolina rigs for Bass new

Livebait is powerful medicine for big bass. As an overwhelmingly tempting and delicious offering, nothing can touch it. Nothing, that is, except perhaps those super-finesse Carolina rigs. When bites go south and bass lock snouts shut, virtually every top...

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Catching Walleye on Live Nightcrawlers new

The Great Lakes and surrounding waterways are exceptionally clear during the late spring and early summer periods. In some cases, bottom can be seen as deep as 60 feet. During days when it’s so calm that it looks like there was a sheet of plastic-wrap pulled...

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Frabill Power Stow Landing Net new

The landing net category is a busy one. There are big ones, little ones, fat ones and tall ones, each brand and model claiming to catch everything under sun while maintaining world peace, or, so micro-specialized the only model left on the rack is for adult...

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ProControll EZ Mount II revolutionizes trolli new

One of the most important factors to successfully catching fish from a boat is the ability to have complete boat control, and the trolling motor is known to be the critical tool for providing that kind of positioning. However, the dilemma over the years...

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Reaction Strike Walleye new

One of the most overused terms in fishing today is “reaction strike.” It seems like every time you turn around, someone else is talking about a scenario where a fish has been magically stimulated to bite. The truth, of course, is that fish strike baits for...

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Search Deep Structure for Late Summer Pike new

Bait mangling marauders. Lure pilfering predators. Slimy line-shearing snakes. Sad but true, the northern pike often gets no justice. But it’s only anglers that have deprived themselves of targeting trophy-size fish during the summer months that take up...

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Twitch and Pause for Smallmouth Bass new

A smallmouth bass in proximity takes note of your bodybait suspended motionless in the water column. You make another sharp, downward rip of the rod tip and the lure scurries askew and stops. Sunlight reflects from it like the beam of a spotlight echoing off...

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Bad Weather Fishing Muskies new

If you’re not careful, being on water when most everyone else isn't can quickly become the central theme of your muskie strategy. Since fishing during the closed-season months is automatically ruled out, what we’re left with are those ‘dirty weather’ days...

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Rippin Lips’ Scent Trail new

Ask science fiction to conjure a superhero with otherworldly senses of taste and smell and the resulting futuristic freak would likely resemble a catfish. In space age intelligence and acuity, catfish are off the piscatorial charts—finned freaks of nature...

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