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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Here are pics Jeff Johnston provided of their recent trip to Lake Erie with Mark IV Charters out of Port Clinton. They fished in Canada near Pelee Island which is a large island in the western half of Lake Erie. IMG_0460
Terry Hora, Tracy Hayward, and I left for Walker, MN, on Saturday June 6th to attend the second National Walleye Tour Event held on Leech Lake June 12-13. We arrived in the rain, got our boat checked by the DNR, then headed to Big Rock Resort to unload our gear for the week. I want…
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…
Sadly, the Canadians, Jim and Doug left for home Friday morning early. Chris and I put in at the Mazurik boat ramp and fished the southeast corner if Kelly’s Island. Lots of charter boats running big planer boards ruled the water until a storm came early afternoon. Chris and I had two on right away,…
Last night’s storm had us moving quickly to get the Ranger covered. Chris and I caught 15 walleyes today, the biggest a 26 incher! Chris cleaned our limit of 12 for the family fish fry in June. Jim and Doug caught ten with another 29 incher! Sadly, the Canadians return home tomorrow while Chris and…
The past two days have been very good to us. Thursday started out cold and windy, so we decided to go to our catfish lake because the protection from the wind. As soon as we dropped our anchors, the catfish started to bite. We ended the day early when we limited out on catfish. The…
This picture is from a great afternoon of bluegill fishing on 5/16/2015. The farm pond we fished needs to have multiple gills managed each spring to keep the balance amongst the waters other fish species. A friend and I fished the pond using my Old Town fishing kayaks from about 2-5:30pm putting some really nice…
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…
Minneapolis, Minn. (May 6, 2015) – Seventeen years ago, a group of anglers organized what would become a bass fishing tournament extraordinaire. They wanted to fish with a purpose. After all these years, their threshold of making that difference hit the $2,000,000.00 mark. With a whopping $316,650.00 raised last weekend on the Mississippi River, the…
Presented by Yamaha Motor Corp. U.S.A. and Warrior Boats Aim Weekend Walleye Series may have a Historic Walleye Catch At the Port Clinton “Starcraft Marine Open” May 3rd 2015 With predictions that the weather will stabilize the week leading up to the AIM Weekend Walleye Series, Sunday, May 3 in Port Clinton, OH, fishing could…
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…
Last week Gary, Mike, Larry and I made a trip south to Mississippi for early spring crappie. We fished Sardis Lake, Enid Lake, and Lake Grenada. Gary and I rigged our boats up for spider rigging which is the preferred way of fishing for the southern fishermen. Spider rigging consists of rigging the front of…
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…
Lake Preston, SD: Tracy, Jesse, Matt, and I left Iowa on January 15th for the northeastern corner of South Dakota to meet Ralph from Tea, SD, and spend our weekend ice fishing area lakes around Lake Preston, SD. Matt’s friend, Tim, from Sibley, IA, joined us for the weekend, too. We fished Lake Thompson all day…
Forestville, WI – The recently concluded National Professional Anglers Association annual conference set attendance records, entered the 2015 season with a record number of fishing and marine industries supporting partners, and raised a record amount of money for the Future Anglers Foundation. The Jan. 2-4 event held in Minneapolis also showcased numerous speakers discussing the…
Hopefully everyone is settled in and ready for 2015! Walleye Wisdom contributor Ralph Kitson sends this report from South Dakota: Some of you have been asking me what have I be doing? Well, I have been fishing often. Today, we went out ice fishing and we did ok. Kept 9 perch that range from 9…
