Articles pertaining to the state of Iowa.
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…
Urban Iowa anglers will have two opportunities to catch trout in the near future thanks to the DNR. One stocking is at Ada Hayden near Ames: DNR to stock rainbow trout at Ada Hayden By Todd Burras Outdoors Editor Published: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:54 AM CST An infusion of color will be added to…
Wanted to share a quick photo of some Canadian Geese that I (L), Adam Chester (C), and Tim Ellerbroek (R), harvested earlier this season. We have been hunting the birds primarily over public waters in central Iowa. We have also had moderate success while field hunting private areas with layout blinds and field decoys. With…
My good friend Tim Ellerbroek invited Adam Chester and I up to his hometown of Sibley Iowa in far NW Iowa for an amazing pheasant opener weekend hunt. Hunting the pheasant opener is tradition in the Ellerbroek family, and I certainly found out why! Wade and Dona Ellerbroek as well as Ted Schutte were the…
It was a beautiful day out on Mississippi Pool 13. Gary Speicher and I put the boat in the water at around ten o’clock this morning in Savannah, IL and after a chilly ride down the river we set up three way rigs to fish for walleyes above and around the numerous wing dams. No…
Fellow walleye angler, Josh Hanson, from North Liberty, IA, provided this photo of two nice Iowa River ‘eyes caught in downtown Iowa City, IA, mid-September. “We caught them on a jig with the new moxie ringo plastics from B-Fish-N. The color was electric blue with a chartreuse tail,” reported Josh. Josh starts to fish the…
A walleye that threatened the state record came out of the Maquoketa River Sunday. Dan Hettinger, 27, of Lamont, said the lunker would have established a state record if it had been officially weighed shortly after he caught it at 8:20 p.m. Sunday. The walleye weighed 13 pounds, 14 ounces and measured 31 3/4 inches…
Iowa State President Greg Geoffroy came to Kennedy Marine in Cedar Rapids, IA, Saturday morning to pick up his new to him Lund boat from Kennedy’s Steve Leathers. Mike Ganzeveld and Gary Speicher from Walleye Wisdom were there to greet Greg and his wife, Kathy. Greg was kind enough to allow them to capture some…
Here is a follow up Pic from the weekend. Carl, his oldest son Colton and 14 month old Klaire enjoyed the morning bite. We were on a local farm pond, using bobbers, minnows and berkley power worms. Casey and Colton enjoyed catching fish, chasing down frogs and viewing the painted turtles. Another great day from shore. …
Part one of our three part video of fishing Lake MacBride on the Coralville Reservoir on 3/28/2010:
