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…
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Two tournaments at Spring Valley, IL., in three weeks! That’s where I found myself in March, 2018! The first tournament was a combined event with the Walleye Anglers Trail (Dubuque) and the Illinois Walleye Trail on March 11, 2018. My tournament partner for the WAT events this year is J.D. Knight from Cedar Falls, IA.…
Yesterday, we enjoyed another day on the water with Florida fishing guide and friend, John Campbell. Bob drove down from Sanibel and met Dale and I at John’s home. We loaded his new Ranger with gear and took a leisurely ride out in the no wake zone. John took us to at least eight spots…
The 2018 Yellow Bass Bonanza is now in the books. The event continues to get bigger and better every year! This year found my fishing partner Tim and I arriving Thursday evening and pre-fishing on Friday and Saturday to try to track down the sometime finicky fish. This year the bite was quite a bit…
Amy’s boyfriend, John Berry, and I enjoyed fishing this past Monday with Marco Island Guide, John Campbell. This was JB’s first time fishing gulf coastal waters. We started our day pitching jigs with shrimp right behind some sand dunes as the tide was moving out. JB had a nice one on which came off at…
Perch! Perch! Perch! The call from Leech Lake to come up and catch them found Tracy, Duane, and I leaving Cedar Rapids on the 21st while Steve headed up from Sioux Falls. We luckily missed the big snowstorm by a day! Our first day out of Brindley’s found us in one of their ice houses…
The 4th Annual Winter Fishing Academy sponsored by Linn County Conservation and Hawkeye Angling Adventures is history! Four years ago, our good friend Captain Dave Nichols began providing anglers a break to the January cold with a day long fishing workshop featuring local and regional anglers. For 2018, the program which is now co-sponsored with…
Crappie! Crappie! Crappie! On Saturday, September 30, Tracy Hayward, Mike Woods and I left Cedar Rapids with the Ranger 620 behind the red Suburban for a week of fishing in the state of Mississippi. We spent our first night at Mike’s cabin on their acreage just past the Iowa-Missouri border. We were up early and…
How far would YOU drive to catch walleyes over 28 inches long, chunky as all get out, and with little or no other anglers fishing around you? Tracy Hayward and I made the drive to Kingston, ON, this past week to fish with our Canadian friend, Jim Lyon. For several years, Jim has asked us…
Fishing Green Bay has changed in recent years. The standard “trolling” for walleyes with cranks or spinner rigs has changed over to mostly pitching “moonshine shiver minnows” with a lift and drop back to the boat. This year’s event out of Marinette, WI, however, turned into a TROLLING bite for winner, Dean Arnoldussen! Please use…
Wind, weeds…..and, WALLEYES! My third trip to Birch Lake, ON, with Tracy Hayward, Larry Hamlett, and Mike Woods produced almost as much success as last year’s fishing adventure with 1136 fish caught, mostly walleyes!! They’ve been flying with Kay Air Service and Outposts out of Lake Lac Seul to Birch for eleven years now. I…
Have you ever fished South Dakota….the land of rolling prairie, wide vistas, and pheasants everywhere?! Good fishing friend Tracy Hayward and I were invited to Kimball, SD, by Steve Schaefer from Sioux Falls. We met Steve a few years ago ice fishing and have ice fished the northeastern corner of South Dakota with him since.…
251. That was the full field of boats entered in last week’s Cabela’s National Team Championship held out of Lorain, Ohio, on the big water of Lake Erie! This was my first time fishing this event. I was invited to fish with Coal Valley, IL, angler Paul Hebbeln. Paul had qualified for the event but…
“The walleyes aren’t biting….”, was the common theme heard from anglers at this year’s MWC event on Lake Winnebago. Lack of ice meant the shad did not die and there was plenty of bait food in the system for the fish to eat. My partner for the event, Tom Harrison from Chicago, came up to…
Lake Erie–when she’s good, she’s really, really good…when she’s bad, she’s really, really bad! Our fishing week started out Saturday, May 13th, when Tom, Tracy, and I put the Ranger 620 in the water at the Mazurik boat ramp and headed to the east side of Kelly’s Island. We caught four nice ones and came…
2017 Cabela”s MWC Tournament Report, Big Stone Lake, Ortonville, MN: How much crappy weather can the walleyewisdom.com fishing team handle in 2017? We were put to the test last week on Big Stone Lake, a 26-mile long body of water right on the South Dakota/Minnesota border. Tracy Hayward and I drove up with the Suburban…
National Walleye Tour Fishing Report, Lake Erie, April 07-14, 2017: “Tough fishing conditions….tough fishing conditions….tough fishing conditions!” Wish I had a dollar for every time I heard this statement over the six days we fished on Lake Erie, both in practice and tournament days. Ranger/Evinrude Pro Chris Burns and I left his Davenport, IA home…
