Friend and reader Kirk Hiland sent in the above pictures that were taken on a recent trip to Nungesser Lake in Ontario. Both fish were caught using a 3” Chartreuse Gulp on 3/8 oz. jig heads vertical jigging while drifting.
Thanks to Jim Clapp who shared with us these photos of some beautiful crappies: Here’s Jim’s story: The crappies were caught at the end of May during spawning. We were fishing around the Chetek area chain of Lakes in Wisconsin. Using 1/32 jigs and no weight, tipped with minnows and casting into the shoreline where…
Congratulations go to Jim Hill of Clear Lake for catching the first $100 tagged walleye of the 2011 season. Walleye 04853 was sponsored by KIMT TV and measured 17.2 inches. Jim has been wading at night and in the early morning to catch walleyes. He caught his first limit of three 16-19″ walleyes 2 weeks…
The May-June 2011 issue of Walleye Magazine from FLW Outdoors Publishing features a picture taken by Associate Editor Sean Ostruszka on pages 12-13 of a walleye fishing tournament day from the FLW Walleye Tour Championship held at Leech Lake last September. WW’s Gary Speicher was the co-angler partner of pro Pete Harsh on Day 1…
To celebrate our first year of keeping all of our friends, family and readers up to date on our fishing adventures, Gary and I loaded up the Lund Explorer and headed down to Lake McBride to see if we could coax some crappies and walleyes into the boat. We spent the first part of our…
Walleye Wisdom reader Dan Krauth, proprietor of Crazy Minnow in Clear Lake, Iowa provided us with this amazing fishing report: Pictured is Robert Wagner of Ventura holding a very large musky he caught out of Clear Lake Wednesday morning, April 13th. The fish was brought live to the Crazy Minnow bait and tackle store where…
My dad Clarence Ganzeveld caught this dandy smallmouth bass on the East Fork of the Des Moines River outside of Dakota City, Iowa. Plenty of walleye anglers were out during my visit back home to Humboldt County this week. We ran into several people that were having luck despite the high waters. Here’s some video…
Tom Greif of Cedar Rapids caught this monster 30 1/2 inch hybrid striped bass into Gander Mountain to be weighed. The fish came in at 14.5 pounds! It was caught in downtown Cedar Rapids on the Cedar River using a creek chub. Congrats, Tom!
Nate Mertka brought this musky that he caught in the Cedar River out to Gander Mountain in Cedar Rapids to be weighed. It came in at 10.12 pounds. He was using a classic combination of a black, 1/4 jig head and a white, three inch twister tail. Hats off to Nate who landed this big…
WW’s Gary Speicher was visiting with Mike Thomas at the Cedar Rapids Estate Planning Council Meeting on Monday, March 21, 2011, about the website and how we like to receive pics of people and fish! Mike shared this great photo of his son, Trevor, from a Minnesota Boundary Waters’ trip a couple seasons ago. Nice…
