Birch Lake, Ontario: 1172. Was that how many black flies, gnats, and mosquitoes attacked me in Canada this past week?! Nope–that was how many walleye and pike my friends Tracy, Mike, Larry, and their Florida buddy Tim caught July, 2014 on Birch Lake! Tim was unable to make the fly-in trip this year so the…
Hello all I was very fortunate to be able to fish Tobin Lake SK from June 6th -13th. I was invited by John Van Diepen Sr. from Sibley, IA he has 20+ years’ experience fishing the lake. His knowledge of the lake made it the fishing trip of a life time for me. We trolled…
Ranger/Evinrude Pro Chris Burns and his partner, Kenny Brenner, won the Walleye Anglers Trail event out of Dubuque’s Mystic Casino Sunday, May 17. Their team lead a total number of 28 teams in the “catch, record, release” event. They weighed five fish for a total weight of 37.51 pounds with their big walleye checking in…
Post spawn walleyes can be hard to catch but that didn’t keep Chris Burns and me from hitting the River at Bellevue Saturday! We fished out of our little Lund we’re leaving at Riverview Campground for the season. Chris had me pull a three-way rig setup–you use a three way swivel with a dropper down…
The 2015 IFO (Ice Fishing Outing) trip to Lake of the Woods and Arnesen’s Rocky Point Resort is history! This year’s group included John, Ralph, Steve, Cliff, Tracy, Tom, Mark, Joe, Dan, Bassel, and me. We arrived at the lodge on Sunday March 1 and completed three days out on the ice. Our first…
The first of four Mississippi River walleye fishing tournaments with the W.A.T. Tournament series was completed Sunday, April 6. My fishing partner for the events is business associate Roger Abel. Roger was kind in allowing us to fish out of his Ranger 620 while I’m awaiting getting my boat ready for the season. We headed…
Tracy Hayward and I finished our crappie fishing trip to northern Mississippi’s Sardis Lake on Wednesday. In spite of the cool temps in the low 30’s, we were able to put the little Lund Explorer on the water early and went to the spot along the lake’s north shoreline where we caught them on Monday.…
The 2014 Ice Fishing Outing (IFO) Group left Friday, February 21, for Devil’s Lake, ND. Devil’s Lake was a 14 hour drive on Friday because the three vehicles from Cedar Rapids had to skirt a blizzard and stay south of the storm traveling to western Iowa before we could head north on Interstate 29 toward…
Where have all the big fish gone at Little Bay de Noc near Escanaba, MI? That’s the comment from the few anglers we encountered at our recent fall fishing trip to LBDN this past weekend. Chris Burns and his friend, Phil Hardy, joined me for our annual fall trip to the Bay last Thursday. I…
On Friday, May 24, Matt Speicher and I left Ames, IA, with Matt’s Spectrum boat and headed north for Lake Lac Seul and the Golden Eagle Resort. We stopped at Albert Lea, MN, to pick up Tim Ellerbroek from Sibley, IA, who was joining us for the third time on our annual trip to Canada.…
