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…
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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…
“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, SD, where we teamed up with…
On Lake Winnipeg, we have had lots of success using lipless crankbaits in several different colors. My preference, when it comes to color choice, is using either natural or bright. I have caught more master angler walleyes on a natural color like chrome or blue than any other color. One of the most popular lures…
One of the hottest fall and winter fishing destinations over the past few years has been Lake Winnipeg. Anglers travel to Southern Manitoba in search of a fish called the Greenback walleye. You will need to make sure you have a current passport. There are two different passport options: a card and a traditional passport…
Because of the forecast we had to leave a day earlier than planned. So I called my fishing partner at 5:30 AM and said we have to go now. Not having packed, it was a scramble to get ready and hit the road. I am from Marshalltown and my fishing partners Carl Carlson and Bill…
2017 LINN CO CONSERVATION & HAWKEYE ANGLING ADVENTURES 3rd ANNUAL WINTER FISHING ACADEMY 3rd Annual Winter Fishing Academy Wickiup Hill Outdoor Learning Center 10260 Morris Hills Road, Toddville, IA January 14, 2017 – Saturday 8:30 AM – 4:30PM $20.00* per person includes Lunch-payable at the door *Proceeds donated to the Pleasant Creek Lake Rehab project…
“I think we can get some good ones today!” said my fishing partner for the day, JD Knight, over breakfast at Richman’s café early Saturday morning in Bellevue, Iowa. We put JD’s Tracker in the water and made a pass near the pack up by the Lock and Dam–no bites. We moved downriver and fished…
It is snowing outside, so I thought it will be a good time to write my last open water fishing report for this year. So, here it is. The last month and half was very good. Lake Sinai and Poinsett has blessed us with jumbo perch, pike, trophy smallmouth, walleyes and other species of fish.…
“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…
Greetings, We have been fishing Lake Poinsett searching for perch in the past 3 out of 4 fishing outings. Our luck for perch on that lake has not been on our side. However, we did catch three nice 11 inchers yesterday. Most of our luck has been for walleyes and smallmouth bass. If you want…
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…
Gear: Shimano Curado 200e7 6’9 St. Croix Medium-Heavy action rod 12lb Segaur fluorocarbon line Location: Yellow River in Webster, Wisconsin Approximately 3pm It was a good day of fishing highlighted by many smallmouth, largemouth, and northern pike caught. It was calm, sunny, and about 86 degrees. The trip started out a little rough as my…
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,…
1146. Yep, that’s how many fish we caught at Birch Lake in northwest Ontario this past week! Retired friends, Tracy Hayward, Mike Woods, Larry Hamlett and I left Cedar Rapids around 2am Friday, July 8th, and drove straight through to Lake Lac Seul to the KayAir base near Ear Falls. Karen and Peter Kay have…
Well, Wednesday was another great day out on one of our favorite multi-species lakes. We caught bluegills, crappies, perch, smallmouth bass, and walleyes. For pass three weeks, we have been going out one day a week to this lake and just having a good old time. Nothing really big, but all good eating size. Walleyes…
