By Mark Alexander Last winter while watching the guys on The Next Bite TV fishing show catch the heck out of King Salmon on Lake Michigan, I decided to learn how to salmon fish and do this myself. Lake Michigan is loaded with salmon and is much closer to my home in eastern Iowa than…
Go West they say to catch walleye on the Missouri River! Tracy Hayward, Mike Woods and I left with Tracy’s Lund boat and arrived in Kimball, SD late Sunday afternoon. We joined our host, Steve Schaefer, and his son, Chris, at their shared “man cave” house and big garage in the small rural community just…
Took one day off from our walleye fishing trip to South Dakota then headed to Guttenberg, IA to fish with young local angler, Brandon Hon. Brandon joined us a for a Lake Erie trip a few years ago plus took me out on the Wapsi last fall. He has a real passion for catching walleye!…
Each spring I watch the weather reports for the western basin of Lake Erie for signs that there will be an opportunity to fish for 3 or 4 days with light winds. On Memorial Day the forecast for Erie was great for the rest of the week. I reached out to my friend Larry Johnson…
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…
