National Walleye Tour Fishing Report, Lake Erie, April 07-14, 2017: “Tough fishing conditions….tough fishing conditions….tough fishing conditions!” Wish I had a dollar for every time I heard this statement over the six days we fished on Lake Erie, both in practice and tournament days. Ranger/Evinrude Pro Chris Burns and I left his Davenport, IA home…
Tom Harrison and I found our tournament results together at Spring Valley, IL, on the Illinois River not what we were hoping for based on our practice success. The event was held March 17-18 at the Spring Valley Boat Club. Our practice day on March 12th found us scouting where tournament anglers from the WAT/IWT…
The first walleye on the Mississippi River for 2017 were caught by JD Knight and me on Wednesday, February 23rd, on the Dubuque pool! JD joined me at Bellevue for a little over an hour late afternoon on the 22nd with no fish. I took Matt Speicher’s little Lund Rebel over to the River for…
Action on Lake Poinsett and Lake Thompson!“Here fishy, fishy, fishy,” I called the walleyes through the ice….just like I do on open water! We did a lot of calling on our recent trip to the northeastern corner of South Dakota! Tracy Hayward and I left Cedar Rapids on Sunday, January 15th and drove to Webster,…
“Hard to catch them, Spike, with all the grass floating down the River,” was the comment from my fishing partner, JD Knight, over this past weekend at Bellevue, IA. JD’s folks have a camper at Riverview and we agreed to meet for a weekend of River fishing this fall. We hooked up last Friday late…
Lake Kabetogoma Fishing Report, September 3-10, 2016: “Looks like a blowout” is how Mike Ganzeveld described our recent trip to Lake Kabetogoma after viewing the photos of the small walleye and pike we caught! On September 3, Gary Lindsay, Tracy Hayward, and I drove the red Suburban to the Sandy Point Lodge on Lake Kabetogoma…
Smallmouth Bass, Northern Pike, Walleye, and Musky–that was the menu served to us during our week at the Ash Rapids Lodge on Lake of the Woods August 12-19, 2016! Former Iowa State President, Greg Geoffroy, invited me to join his wife, Maria, brothers Max and Dave Rothschild, along with Greg’s East Coast buddies, Bob Matthews,…
“Better late than never,” is what I would say to my Dad who had a habit of waiting up for me following a date with Susan! Same goes for this report from the October 18, 2015 W.A.T. Catch, Photo, and Release event out of Bellevue, IA a couple weeks ago. Tracy Hayward and I practice…
What makes a good fishing story? How about catching the winning fish in a two day MWC event with less than five minutes to go before check-in time!! That’s how the story played our for Ranger/Evinrude Pro Chris Burns from Davenport, IA and his teammate Roger Abel from Cedar Rapids, IA on Saturday September 19th,…
One of life’s greatest blessings is spending time with family and friends. Last week in Ontario was one of this year’s fishing highlights for me because I spent it with my two sons, Chris and Matt, and new son-in-law, Jessie! Michele and Chad from Pasha Lake Cabins donated a week at their resort to the…
