The Mother of all Fishing Tackle sales! This is the disbursement sale of all fishing equipment owned by the legendary…
Read more →Last year while fishing at Lake Erie we met some fellow anglers doing the bait shop visits during a “blow…
Read more →by Dave Nichols Fall fishing opportunities are plentiful but one of the Midwest’s most iconic bites is on the upper…
Read more →Four members from our club, Ames Anglers, drove some 450 miles south from Ames, Iowa to Holiday Island, Arkansas to…
Read more →Traveling to southwest Florida for a couple weeks in the dead of Iowa’s winter is a welcome retreat! Sue and…
Read more →“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…
Walleye Wisdom Team members Dan Goiffon and Cliff Klein from Cedar Rapids, IA, spent three days chasing “big green” walleyes on Lake Winnipeg earlier this month. Lake Winnipeg, located in the Manitoba. is a very large, but relatively shallow 24,514-square-kilometre lake. It’s southern end is about 55 kilometres north of the city of Winnipeg (Wikipedia).…
From Bob MacMillan: 12 Degrees Fahrenheit, time to hit the lake. Jim Lyon and I (Bob MacMillan) met at the local coffee shop and headed to the boat ramp around 8am Saturday December 8/2018. Ice had formed in some of the small bays and sheltered areas but not where we were going. We planned to…
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…
The wind DOES blow in South Dakota! Sue and I left Wednesday morning for Aurora, SD to stay with friends, Char and Ralph, for a few days. They had invited me to speak to the Glacial Lakes Chapter of South Dakota Walleyes Unlimited Thursday night, October 18th. We had a nice night getting caught up…
“Let’s call our week fishing for big crappie in Mississippi Crappie 101,” exclaimed our police detective friend Jim Wessels after catching the biggest crappie in his fishing career! Jim was referring to our friend, Lance Valentine’s, Walleye 101 educational schools held yearly at Lake Erie. Tracy Hayward, Jim, and I spent September 30-October 6 fishing…
It’s over! The 2018 Cabela’s National Walleye Tour had an exciting conclusion at the Championship event September 5-7 at Lake of the Woods our of Baudette, MN! By now, you’ve all read how Max Wilson became the youngest pro to win a Championship event in the NWT’s history! Please use our link from walleyewisdom.com to…
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…
“We’re going to jig, jig, jig during practice fishing, Spike,” said Chris Burns, my NWT Touring Pro for the 2018 season. He was referring to the change of bodies of water from Red Wing, MN, and the Mississippi River to Lake Winnebago and Oshkosh, WI. Flooding on the River forced the tournament officials to find…
“Lake Erie walleye fishing in 2018 promises to be spectacular” was the lead title in a story written for rockthelake.com by Laura Johnston back on March 30th. Most of the 2015 walleye hatch–one of the largest ever on Lake Erie–is now big enough to keep, under Ohio law. And the excitement is justified! “It’s going…
JD Knight and I began practice for the Walleye Anglers Trail event outside Bellevue on Thursday afternoon, April 19th. We fished the traditional spots on Pool 13 and caught four including a big 22 inch male! Friday found us working down river and south of Sabula. We found one nice, plump female walleye for our…
