Last year while fishing at Lake Erie we met some fellow anglers doing the bait shop visits during a “blow day”. Karl Dollhopf is from the Upper Peninsula and he shared a report with Walleye Wisdom with pictures of their catch: Lake Erie Report October 10-14. “Day 1-nice weather light wind. We fished out of…
by Dave Nichols Fall fishing opportunities are plentiful but one of the Midwest’s most iconic bites is on the upper Green Bay looking for smallmouth bass. I had a chance to take a couple days with friends Terry and Sam to join one of our favorite fishing guides, Capt. Jimmy Doering for some October smallmouth…
The fourth qualifying event for the National Walleye Tour 2022 schedule was held on Green Bay July 14-15. Fortunately, my third skin cancer surgery came right after the Prairie du Chien event and I was healed enough I could make the big water tournament. There were 108 boats in the event hosted by the Marinette,…
This has been the most challenging fishing year for me in all my adult life. Two skin cancer surgeries in February, subsequent infections, and every other day care from a wound clinic limited my ability to fish the first two NWT events scheduled for 2022. The wound in my back healed enough I could make…
Four members from our club, Ames Anglers, drove some 450 miles south from Ames, Iowa to Holiday Island, Arkansas to walleye fish March 15-16 with guide Ken Greenwood of Greenwood’s Guide Service (479-244-9630). We were not disappointed. Members Jim Trow, Chuck Beck, Daryl Strohbehn and myself met Ken at his most unusual walleye boat docked…
Traveling to southwest Florida for a couple weeks in the dead of Iowa’s winter is a welcome retreat! Sue and I headed down in the Suburban on January 21 and arrived at the Surfrider Beach Club on Sanibel Island the next day–two long days of driving. Our daughter, Amy, and her husband, John Berry, flew…
“When opportunity knocks on your door…you should listen!” And, that’s what I did by responding to a Facebook post from noted Lake Erie guide Gary Zart a couple weeks ago! Gary had posted three open spots for their Ranger 622 guide and tournament boat for those days. I signed up and Gary found a couple…
“There’s more to fishing than just fishing…” How many times have you heard this phrase repeated from your favorite fishing Facebook friends?! The phrase sums up my final 2021 trip to Lake Erie with fishing educator Lance Valentine and his two pals from Flint, MI, Larry Kammerer and Jim Mecum. Both Larry and Jim have…
WINDY! That was the reason we only got to fish three out of seven days at Lake Erie in late October. Our walleye wisdom teammate, Jim Wessels, and his two pals, Marc and Ron, came over to stay with my teammates, Dan and Cliff, at Bays Edge in Port Clinton. We arrived Saturday with high…
Tim Spears was kind enough to provide us with these pics and a report from Little Bay de Noc. Thanks, Tim! Little Bay de Noc report. The fishing steadily picked up as the water temps dropped. Had 53 on 11/1. Fished till 11/6 with the water at 46. Daytime program was blade baits on steep…
