THE SPIKE SALE

The Mother of all Fishing Tackle sales! This is the disbursement sale of all fishing equipment owned by the legendary…

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Great Smallmouth Bass Clarence!

smallmouth bass caught on the des moines river

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…

Tired of Hurting your Back? Check out Smooth Moves Seats!!

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…

Monster Striped Bass!

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!

More Cedar River Musky!

Northern Pike

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…

Nice ‘Eye, Trevor!

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…

Dan Mazuk shows off a dandy!

Dan Mazuk shows off a nice Rainy River walleye.

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 With a Trophy Coralville Walleye!

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!

Josh Hanson’s Iowa River Walleye!

Iowa River walleye

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…

Sharon Collis Shares a Walleye Recipe

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…