The Mother of all Fishing Tackle sales! This is the disbursement sale of all fishing equipment owned by the legendary…
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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…
WW’s Gary Speicher shot this video of some late afternoon anglers on the north side of Clear Lake, IA, after stopping by the Crazy Minnow Bait and Tackle Company on Highway 18 to meet with Dan Krauth. Speicher talked about the improvement the DNR has made in recent years to improve the fishery along with…
WW’s Gary Speicher stopped by Clear Lake, IA, on his way home to Cedar Rapids, IA from the Lowrance HDS School at Owatonna, MN. Dan Krauth is the owner/manager of “The Crazy Minnow Company” right on Highway 18. Dan was kind enough to spend a few minutes highlighting the current fishing at Clear Lake along…
WW’s Gary Speicher interviewed Smooth Moves Sales and Marketing Director Chad Rafdal from Blooming Prairie, MN, April 9.2011. Chad was attending “Doc” Samson’s Lowrance HDS workshop at the Owatonna, MN, Cabela’s store. Chad took us down to their “Smooth Moves” seat pedestal display at the store’s marine power section. Thanks, Chad, for showing WW Watchers…
WW’s Gary Speicher visited with “Doc” before his Lowrance HDS School at the Owatonna, MN, Cabela’s store on April 9, 2011. Doc highlighted the new Lakemaster map data which shows all the Mississippi River detail including wing dams! He also talked about is upcoming schools and 2011 tournament schedule. Thanks, Doc
WW’s Gary Speicher interviewed “Doc” before he began his day-long workshops on the Lowrance HDS systems at the Owatonna, MN, Cabela’s store April 9, 2011. Doc talked about his new HDS Structurescan DVD and the other DVD’s he has available to order from his website or at Cabela’s. Thanks, Doc!
WW’s Gary Speicher filed a video report from the Mighty Mississippi River, just north of downtown Red Wing, MN, on Friday, April 8, 2011. “Anglers were fishing and catching fish!” he reported. “I drove over to Dean’s Resort and found lots of anglers putting their boats in at the resort in spite of the high…
WW’s Gary Speicher filed this video report on Thursday, April 7, 2011 from the Leavee Park area of Red Wing, MN. The flooding waters had covered most of the Island Campground and Marina where Gary and Sue keep their summertime camper. “I couldn’t get close to the campground because the roads in are flooded but…
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…
The biggest walleye caught by the IFO Group ice fishing event at Lake of the Woods out of Cyrus Resort was courtesy of “Dapper” Dan Mazuk! Dan caught the nice 24-incher right away in the morning. The fish stayed in the shack long enough for a picture and was then released to get even bigger!…
Tim Nissen came into Gander Mountain in Cedar Rapids to have this dandy walleye weighed and measured that he just caught on the Coralville Reservoir using an orange and white jig and Berkeley Powerbait combo. The fish weighed a stout 11.2 pounds and was 30 inches in length. Congratulations Jeff and thanks for the picture!
Reader Josh Hanson submits a picture of a beautiful ten pound plus walleye he caught on the Iowa River below the Coralville Reservoir spillway. Here’s his story: My 10lb 6oz walleye was 27 1/2″ long caught at 3:00am Saturday morning February 19th. This fish was caught on a 4″ ringworm made by B Fish N…
From reader Sharon Collis: I was to send you some pictures of our grandsons with their walleyes and our favorite recipe for walleye.The pictures I will send to you later but below is my walleye recipe. This is the same recipe that I sent to Taste of Home. They used it in their Wild Game…
