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 →Richard Leopold, director of the state Department of Natural Resources, delivered a yearly report on the status of Iowa’s natural resources and environment on Tuesday and the report card was a mix of good news and bad. From the report: “This year’s report shows we’ve made strides in a number of areas, as more Iowans…
Here is a follow up Pic from the weekend. Carl, his oldest son Colton and 14 month old Klaire enjoyed the morning bite. We were on a local farm pond, using bobbers, minnows and berkley power worms. Casey and Colton enjoyed catching fish, chasing down frogs and viewing the painted turtles. Another great day from shore. …
I want to thank my best friend Carl and his family for taking care of me during our 2nd season Iowa turkey hunt. This picture is of myself and Carl’s youngest son Casey. This decoy would have worked any other time but not this morning. We sat in the blind till sun up, waiting for…
Gary stopped by the “Wolf Paw Gallery” studio of award winning wildlife artist, Jeff Renner. Jeff’s studio is next to his home located on Eagle Lake, just north of Park Rapids, MN. Jeff talks about his work and highlights his new release, “Manntrap Morning:”. To check out Jeff’s work and to order his work, please…
Walleye Wisdom pro-staff member Gary Speicher was in New York Mills, Minnesota yesterday and he got a chance to sit down and chat with Tony Kolker, who is the marketing manager for Lund Boats, about the new AIM walleye circuit. They also visited about the consolidation of the Crestliner boat manufacturing to New York Mills…
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Gary interviews Coralville, IA Scheel’s Store fishing department manager, Mark Bentley, for current fishing tips and tricks. This begins a regular interview with Mark about fishing trends in equipment and tackle.
With water temperatures rising throughout the state the shallow bite has been heating up. Yesterday the surface temp on the lake that I was fishing topped out at 61 degrees. You sure could tell, as everyone that we encountered was catching fish. The name of the game for shore fisherman was the standard issue bobber…
Luther College has a page on their website dedicated to a live streaming feed of a bald eagle nest in Decorah, Iowa. It’s very fascinating. On a side note I wanted to mention that I sang at Dorian Music Festival for a few years when I was in high school and it’s a beautiful campus.
Our friend and client, Russ Havlik, from Cedar Rapids, IA, likes to take Wednesdays off from his auto repair business in Cedar Rapids and head down to Lake MacBride. He shared this nice pic with me last year after catching this huge walleye casting his favorite number seven Rapala Shad Rap! Russ also fishes Leech…
Our friend and client, Rich Vanourney, from Central City, IA frequently patrols the Wapsipinicon River looking for ‘eyes. He knows the River well and has plenty of “secret” spots from Central City downriver. His home has some true trophy walleye mounts you’d think were caught on Lake Erie but were caught less than 30 minutes…
