The Mother of all Fishing Tackle sales! This is the disbursement sale of all fishing equipment owned by the legendary…
Read more →Last year while fishing at Lake Erie we met some fellow anglers doing the bait shop visits during a “blow…
Read more →by Dave Nichols Fall fishing opportunities are plentiful but one of the Midwest’s most iconic bites is on the upper…
Read more →Four members from our club, Ames Anglers, drove some 450 miles south from Ames, Iowa to Holiday Island, Arkansas to…
Read more →Traveling to southwest Florida for a couple weeks in the dead of Iowa’s winter is a welcome retreat! Sue and…
Read more →It is with incredible sadness that I have to announce the passing of Walleye Wisdom founder, Gary Speicher. Gary was a lot of things to a lot of people. Besides being a fisherman of great talents, Gary was a father, a friend, a mentor, a role-model, a devoted follower of Christ, a patriot and a…
The Mother of all Fishing Tackle sales! This is the disbursement sale of all fishing equipment owned
by the legendary Gary “Spike” Speicher.
Many people believe there is more to fishing than just catching…and I would have to agree! The walleyewisdom.com team traveled to Lake Erie the last week of April to see if the weather would cooperate and allow us to catch some spring walleye! Our teammates included my son, Chris, and his friend Dave Z. from…
Last year while fishing at Lake Erie we met some fellow anglers doing the bait shop visits during a “blow day”. Karl Dollhopf is from the Upper Peninsula and he shared a report with Walleye Wisdom with pictures of their catch: Lake Erie Report October 10-14. “Day 1-nice weather light wind. We fished out of…
by Dave Nichols Fall fishing opportunities are plentiful but one of the Midwest’s most iconic bites is on the upper Green Bay looking for smallmouth bass. I had a chance to take a couple days with friends Terry and Sam to join one of our favorite fishing guides, Capt. Jimmy Doering for some October smallmouth…
The fourth qualifying event for the National Walleye Tour 2022 schedule was held on Green Bay July 14-15. Fortunately, my third skin cancer surgery came right after the Prairie du Chien event and I was healed enough I could make the big water tournament. There were 108 boats in the event hosted by the Marinette,…
This has been the most challenging fishing year for me in all my adult life. Two skin cancer surgeries in February, subsequent infections, and every other day care from a wound clinic limited my ability to fish the first two NWT events scheduled for 2022. The wound in my back healed enough I could make…
Four members from our club, Ames Anglers, drove some 450 miles south from Ames, Iowa to Holiday Island, Arkansas to walleye fish March 15-16 with guide Ken Greenwood of Greenwood’s Guide Service (479-244-9630). We were not disappointed. Members Jim Trow, Chuck Beck, Daryl Strohbehn and myself met Ken at his most unusual walleye boat docked…
Traveling to southwest Florida for a couple weeks in the dead of Iowa’s winter is a welcome retreat! Sue and I headed down in the Suburban on January 21 and arrived at the Surfrider Beach Club on Sanibel Island the next day–two long days of driving. Our daughter, Amy, and her husband, John Berry, flew…
“When opportunity knocks on your door…you should listen!” And, that’s what I did by responding to a Facebook post from noted Lake Erie guide Gary Zart a couple weeks ago! Gary had posted three open spots for their Ranger 622 guide and tournament boat for those days. I signed up and Gary found a couple…
“There’s more to fishing than just fishing…” How many times have you heard this phrase repeated from your favorite fishing Facebook friends?! The phrase sums up my final 2021 trip to Lake Erie with fishing educator Lance Valentine and his two pals from Flint, MI, Larry Kammerer and Jim Mecum. Both Larry and Jim have…
WINDY! That was the reason we only got to fish three out of seven days at Lake Erie in late October. Our walleye wisdom teammate, Jim Wessels, and his two pals, Marc and Ron, came over to stay with my teammates, Dan and Cliff, at Bays Edge in Port Clinton. We arrived Saturday with high…
Tim Spears was kind enough to provide us with these pics and a report from Little Bay de Noc. Thanks, Tim! Little Bay de Noc report. The fishing steadily picked up as the water temps dropped. Had 53 on 11/1. Fished till 11/6 with the water at 46. Daytime program was blade baits on steep…
COVID has messed up a lot of things for most of us. We had two weeks of Lake Erie fishing scheduled last year and had to move to 2021 when Ohio shut down out of towners coming in to fish. Fortunately, Mark Cahlik at Bays Edge allowed us to move our deposits from 2019 to…
We enjoyed a big day fishing with Strike Zone Charters out of Maalaea Harbor on Friday, August 6th! The event included members from son-in-law, John Berry’s, family along with Matt Speicher and Dan Chapman from our Maui condo. Our family’s were on the island for a week celebrating a renewal of wedding vows for Amy…
The fishing trip actually started 3 days prior to our departure to Lake Superior. My son called me in the evening and informed me that I would need to get a Wisconsin license and Wisconsin Trout Stamp. The next day I proceeded over to Hudson Wisconsin to get both license and stamp completed. This being…
