“These are the biggest crappie I’ve ever caught!” exclaimed my partner, Ralph Kitson from South Dakota, after a couple days on Lake Enid, Mississippi. Ralph joined the walleye wisdom fishing team for our now annual crappie fishing trip to the well known lakes of northern Mississippi. Tracy Hayward, Larry Hamlett, and Mike Woods fished out…
Oh, man, what a tournament season I had this year! Two days after a land based hurricane called a “derecho” drove over 700 miles from Nebraska to Illinois and tore up central Iowa along Highway 30 on August 10, I left to fish the NWT event at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. Fortunately, none of our…
What a weird fishing year! Covid-19 has changed how we live our lives and added concerns for the future. On Saturday, August 1st, good friend Tracy Hayward and I headed to Port Clinton, Ohio with the Ranger 620 for a week of walleye fishing. This trip had been planned as a “make up” for not…
“It’s been a tough practice for this one,” was the lament of many Pro-anglers fishing the National Walleye Tour in Green Bay this past week. Changing winds, water temperatures, and currents had many guessing where the winning walleyes would be. You know by now Korey Sprengel won the event with a two day total of…
“You know, Spike, there’s a lot more to fishing than catching!” exclaimed my Chicago friend, Tom Harrison, after three partial days of fishing out of Oconto, WI on Green Bay. Tom was ready for a Covid-19 break and I wanted to get the red Ranger 620 out of Walleye Wisdom headquarters for a road trip.…
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…
