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…
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The first ever CRANDIC (Cedar Rapids and Iowa City) Walleye Club tournament was held Sunday, May 31, 2020 on Pleasant Creek Lake just west of Cedar Rapids, IA. The COVID-19 compliant event was kicked off by Club President, Dave Nichols, and tournament directors Terry Hora and Tracy Hayward giving the go ahead to Team 1…
Bellevue, IA–a pretty little town south of Dubuque and north of Clinton. And, home to some great walleye fishing! One of my campground friends, Jerry Hicks, agreed to join me for some time on the water in pursuit of the post spawn walleyes roaming the Mississippi River. A month ago, when the conditions were right,…
With ice being sketchy at the best in many parts across the Midwest including Iowa the walleye wisdom fishing team decided we needed a trek north. Way north. Matt left Knoxville early on Friday 1/17/2020 and picked up brother Trenton and stepfather Steve in the Des Moines area. They tossed their gear in the Chevy…
Late Fall Bay Of Quinte report Nov 23-29 What a week it was! End of November is my favourite week to fish Quinte and this year did not disappoint. Day 1 was a Saturday morning launching at dawn. I joined a good friend Eric on his boat, an Alumacraft powered by Yamaha, and we motored…
Fishing education along with actual on the water fishing for big walleyes in the fall–sound interesting to you?! Huron, Ohio is where fishing pal Jim Wessels and I headed on October 31, 2019. The rain started in Indiana and continued the rest of our drive, all night, and during the day on Thursday. We both…
“You need to change your fish call from here fishy, fishy to here crappie, crappie,” commented Gary Lindsay during our first day of fishing for the big papermouths on Lake Enid. John Mickish, Gary, and I left for what has become an annual October outing to the crappie producing lakes in Mississippi on my birthday,…
The third stop on this year’s National Walleye Tour found us fishing the beautiful, sometimes stunning area below Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. I arrived a day early so had an opportunity to do some “tourist” things like visit the downtown and walk through the Corps of Engineers museum right at the huge lock and dam…
“The walleyes just weren’t where we normally find them,” commented Mike the last night of our week on Birch Lake, Ontario. Tracy, Larry, and I were in agreement. “It seems they were more relating to rocks and boulders. Could the drop of the lake a couple feet have had an impact?” questioned Tracy. “And, we…
On 06/09/2019 Tracey Hayward and Mike Woods traveled 467 miles from Cedar Rapids Iowa to Kimball South Dakota. Tracey pulled his new 1875 Lund Impact that still needed some motor break in time. They arrived late afternoon on Sunday and we decided to put in Monday at Chamberlain and fish Lake Francis Case.We motored the…
How do you experience the grandeur of Alaska? You GO there! For several years, my sons Chris and Matt, have urged me to put together a fishing adventure to Alaska. Six months ago we made reservations and left on United from Chicago to Anchorage June 8th. We found our rental car agency, picked up a…
Lake Oahe Fishing Report: May 26 – May 31, 2019 by Cliff Klein (NPAA 800) and Dan Goiffon (NPAA 794) This year was an unusual year for Walleye fishing on Lake Oahe during this week. Mother Nature had played a cruel trick on the fish and fishermen. There was a warm spell with above normal…
“The pros have had a really tough bite with the weather and falling water temps during practice,” commented my traveling co-angler partner, Tom Harrison, as we drove from Suamico to our registration and rules meeting for the second National Walleye Tour event of the tournament season. The town of Marinette, WI opened up their new…
“I don’t think I want to do two weeks fishing here at Lake Erie next year,” commented my Canadian friend, Jim Lyon, as we walked from our Ranger 620 boats back to our Bays Edge condo in Port Clinton, Ohio. We had just finished our second year of entertaining two different sets of fishing guests.…
“Tough, tough, bite” is what I heard from the professional walleye fisherman waiting to register for the first event of the new National Walleye Tour season at Lake Winnebago. The pros put up with rain, wind, and falling water temperatures leading up to the first day of our event on May 2nd. We learned at…
We went to Detroit River, caught some fish, bombed the Bass Pro Shop Cabela’s Detroit River MWC Tournament, and came home,” is how I felt when I sat down to file our trip report for Walleye Wisdom. But that would be too easy and leave out some of our highs and lows during the past…
Our trip to Detroit River was definitely that… a trip. Dad and I didn’t know much about “The Dirty D” besides lots of numbers of walleyes and a chance to catch the elusive 30 incher. (Which Dad and I have not caught yet) We both have been hearing about this river for a number of…
