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…
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Read more →Four members from our club, Ames Anglers, drove some 450 miles south from Ames, Iowa to Holiday Island, Arkansas to…
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The third and final NWT tournament for me was held on Lake Erie late June. Because of a family commitment, I’m unable to fish the Mobridge, SD event later this month and will not have enough “points” to make the Championship in late September. Back to Huron. I drove our Lance truck camper on our…
It’s been a long, long time since I fished a weather shortened walleye tournament event but the rough weather at Sturgeon Bay, WI, made up for it this past week! Our rules/registration meeting on Wednesday found the flag whipping in the wind and the NWT pros a little edgy after a sketchy pre-fish looking for…
Our local walleye fishing club, CRANDIC, is having a tournament out of Dubuque, IA on June 6th. Its been years since I’ve fished Pool 12 which extends from Lock and Dam 12 located at Bellevue, IA upstream over 26 miles to Loack and Dam 11 at Dubuque. On Friday, the 21st, campground friend Steve Ballou…
Go West young man…that’s where the walleyes are! How true for our practice before and during the first NWT event of the 2021 season at Chamberlain,Oacoma, S.D. I pulled Ranger Pro Steve Miller’s Ranger 620 boat over to Kimball, S.D. where we met good friend and fellow angler, Steve Schaefer. Steve live in Sioux Falls…
Spring has finally sprung here in Kingston, Ontario. While the ice had mostly gone off the big lake a few weeks ago, it was hanging on in some of the bays and marinas in the area. We have extreme low water right now and very little usable boat ramps to service us. Low and behold…
“I need to get out of Chicago!”, exclaimed my good friend, Tom Harrison early March. “I need to get out of Cedar Rapids!”, I added. We solved our fishing itch by heading to the Illinois River for a couple days late last week. Tom got his 16-foot Lund Fury out of storage and brought it…
Happy New Year everyone. Up in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, we have had a very mild start to winter and virtually all of Lake Ontario is still ice free. Although the boat ramps have spent some days iced in, this week they broke up and cleared the way for us to venture out for a New…
“These are the biggest crappie I’ve ever caught!” exclaimed my partner, Ralph Kitson from South Dakota, after a couple days on Lake Enid, Mississippi. Ralph joined the walleye wisdom fishing team for our now annual crappie fishing trip to the well known lakes of northern Mississippi. Tracy Hayward, Larry Hamlett, and Mike Woods fished out…
Oh, man, what a tournament season I had this year! Two days after a land based hurricane called a “derecho” drove over 700 miles from Nebraska to Illinois and tore up central Iowa along Highway 30 on August 10, I left to fish the NWT event at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. Fortunately, none of our…
What a weird fishing year! Covid-19 has changed how we live our lives and added concerns for the future. On Saturday, August 1st, good friend Tracy Hayward and I headed to Port Clinton, Ohio with the Ranger 620 for a week of walleye fishing. This trip had been planned as a “make up” for not…
“It’s been a tough practice for this one,” was the lament of many Pro-anglers fishing the National Walleye Tour in Green Bay this past week. Changing winds, water temperatures, and currents had many guessing where the winning walleyes would be. You know by now Korey Sprengel won the event with a two day total of…
“You know, Spike, there’s a lot more to fishing than catching!” exclaimed my Chicago friend, Tom Harrison, after three partial days of fishing out of Oconto, WI on Green Bay. Tom was ready for a Covid-19 break and I wanted to get the red Ranger 620 out of Walleye Wisdom headquarters for a road trip.…
By Mark Alexander Last winter while watching the guys on The Next Bite TV fishing show catch the heck out of King Salmon on Lake Michigan, I decided to learn how to salmon fish and do this myself. Lake Michigan is loaded with salmon and is much closer to my home in eastern Iowa than…
Go West they say to catch walleye on the Missouri River! Tracy Hayward, Mike Woods and I left with Tracy’s Lund boat and arrived in Kimball, SD late Sunday afternoon. We joined our host, Steve Schaefer, and his son, Chris, at their shared “man cave” house and big garage in the small rural community just…
Took one day off from our walleye fishing trip to South Dakota then headed to Guttenberg, IA to fish with young local angler, Brandon Hon. Brandon joined us a for a Lake Erie trip a few years ago plus took me out on the Wapsi last fall. He has a real passion for catching walleye!…
Each spring I watch the weather reports for the western basin of Lake Erie for signs that there will be an opportunity to fish for 3 or 4 days with light winds. On Memorial Day the forecast for Erie was great for the rest of the week. I reached out to my friend Larry Johnson…
