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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We have safe ice (10 inches) again after a weekend of 50 degrees plus temperatures. So today, we headed out to Lake Whitewood which is just South of the village of Lake Preston. We had ok luck out on the ice, keeping 11 perch ranging from just about 10 inches to almost 13 inches. Bite…
January Winter Fishing Academy – Fishing 101 – At Palo Outdoors 10 and 17 – Saturdays – 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. Beginners are welcome to join us at each of these sessions where we will progressively learn about the basics of fishing. What line works well, how do you tie knots, how do you choose…
Bellevue, IA, was the scene for local trick or treating on Sunday evening, October 26, 2014 but not all the “tricks” played were in town! Our good friend, Chris Burns, arrived at the camper Sunday morning to join me for a day on the River. The morning wakeup was around 34 degrees but when Chris…
Friend Chris Burns from Davenport and I prefished last Friday and Saturday on the Mississippi River prior to the first event in the Illinois Walleye Trail series out of Albany, Ill. “The River was really high and dirty during the prefish and tournament,” Burns commented. We found our best approach was to move from spot…
Good friend Tracy Hayward and I left Cedar Rapids on Friday, August 23, for Escanaba, MI and practice for the third event in the Cabela’s National Walleye Tour season. We had high hopes for many walleyes. However, we were greeted with four days of practice without a walleye! We fished Little Bay, Big Bay, above…
Gary Speicher and Eric Olson test ride the new Evinrude G2 featured here in its 250 HP form. Lake Peppin provided the water and Evinrude provided the whiplash!
Another round of Lac Seul photos featuring Danny, Denny and Dave. Some good ones with Gary in front of the lens.
Lac Seuls Golden Eagle Resort was the destination once again this year. Find out how to catch on the picture descriptions!
A few more pics and a wrap-up video about the Lake Erie trip. With fish like this we have a little explaining to do!
Two pics for day six. Good weather and good fishing!
Despite some challenging waves the walleyes kept coming into the boat.
Join us as we travel up to the waters of Lake Erie.
Lake MacBride report: Chris Speicher came home from Chicago to help Sue celebrate Mother’s Day. I’m grateful she let us fish a few hours together out of the Lund Explorer! Before Chris arrived about 2pm, I had a couple hours to pull No. 5 Shad Raps across the north arm of Lake MacBride catching small…
With Capt. Dave Nichols Every spring, I get a weekend outing with my deer hunting companions in southern Iowa. We do a little work on the deer property, pond fish and occasionally hit the lakes of southern Iowa for a day. This year we spent an evening and a morning on Lake Sugema, 3 miles…
The longest running walleye tournament in North Dakota has been made even better after the Devils Lake tournament committee spent several late winter nights huddled around the fireplace. Several contests within the main tournament have been added, and the community has created a walleye festival around the tournament dates, June 27 – 28. Todd Caspers,…
