“I don’t think I want to do two weeks fishing here at Lake Erie next year,” commented my Canadian friend, Jim Lyon, as we walked from our Ranger 620 boats back to our Bays Edge condo in Port Clinton, Ohio. We had just finished our second year of entertaining two different sets of fishing guests.…
“Tough, tough, bite” is what I heard from the professional walleye fisherman waiting to register for the first event of the new National Walleye Tour season at Lake Winnebago. The pros put up with rain, wind, and falling water temperatures leading up to the first day of our event on May 2nd. We learned at…
“Here crappie, crappie, crappie,” I called. “Sounds like you’re changing your fish call from here fishy, fishy, fishy,” exclaimed my friend and fishing partner, Tracy Hayward. And that we did–for four days we pursued the tasty southern crappie on Kentucky Lake out of Buchanan Resort. We cancelled our scheduled trip to the Mississippi lakes of…
“It was a tougher bite than past years up here,” lamented our Walleye Wisdom ice fishing trip to Lake of the Woods leader Ralph Kitson. Ralph had set up our trip with Arnesen’s Rocky Point Resort late last fall. My brother, Duane, friend, Tracy Hayward, and I drove up together on March 8th. Ralph’s group…
What do you do while everyone else is shopping during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend? Go fishing, of course. Fellow Bellevue campers Randy Martin and Duane Capes kept an open seat for me early Saturday morning. We put Duane’s Lund in the water and headed up by Lock and Dam #12 to fish with a couple…
GIANT catfish! What do they have to do with a walleye fishing tournament? That’s the question my fishing friend and MWC partner, Tom Harrison, kept asking ourselves during practice for the MWC event out of Oconto, WI. It seemed we caught five cats for every walleye put in the boat during practice and the actual…
Devil’s Lake has become one of the hottest upper Midwest fishing locations for several reasons: FISH, FISH, FISH! Lots of walleyes with lots of ways to catch them plus monster pike to spice things up during your fishing day. I was unable to practice fish with the walleyewisdom.com fishing team for this event. I spent…
Ranger/Evinrude Pro Steve Miller and Brian Yeo won the Walleye Anglers Trail event at Genoa, WI on Sunday, July 24, 2018 with five fish weighing 16.35 pounds and claimed the first place purse of $1975! I caught up with Steve this past week and talked to him about the Mississippi River tournament and their first…
One of my favorite reads each month is the ” North with Doc” column in In-Fisherman magazine written for over 20 years by Greg Knowles who lives in Green Valley, Arizona. Greg’s column has chronicled the fishing adventures of he and his buddies at Knobby’s Bamaji Lake VIP outpost in Northwestern Ontario. If you’ve read…
The second event of the Cabela’s NWT found pro partner Chris Burns and I heading up to Saginaw Bay on June 8th. On the way up, we concluded the last time we were there was 18 years ago. “Let’s call this our 18 year reunion,” quipped Burnsy. We met Chris’s teammates at the AmericInn and…
