World-class walleye fishing, intense team-format competition and hefty payouts are on tap for the 2015 Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit season. Announced today, the MWC’s 31st season will feature premier destinations including a mix of traditional […]
With a name longer than its size, the Bobby Garland 1.25″ Itty Bit Swim’R has inferiority complex issues right out of the package. However, after only a few weeks on the market and the winter crappie […]
Ice Team Pro, Dave Genz, teams up with Clam Pro, Cory Yarmuth to put the pieces together on staying mobile to catch more fish… Armed with a good set of Kahtoola MICRO spikes on my […]
Bass Pro Shops Santa’s Wonderland-A Classic Christmas is returning for its seventh year to 67 Bass Pro Shops stores* throughout the U.S. and Canada. Santa will arrive at store locations Saturday, Nov. 15 at 5 […]
Throughout the Midwest and probably other parts of North America, there are some lakes that have special fishing regulations. Not many lakes, but a few. These special regulations greatly restrict the number of fish you […]
Autumn is an amazing time to chase walleye. As water temperatures cool, they feed heartily to prepare for winter. Walleye will hang out in many areas in autumn, but tributaries, bars, and humps are three […]
Fall is the time of year to treat yourself to one last fishing excursion before the snowflakes start to fall. And if you’re going to take a fishing road trip amid a backdrop of autumn’s […]
Aggressive feeding habits, fast growth and affinity for shore line structure make the catfish a natural for teaching young and old the secrets of fishing. This feisty battler enjoys a state-wide distribution due to its […]
When walleye fishing gets tough, it’s often to an angler’s advantage to slow things down. One tactic that is great at catching “tough-bite” walleyes is what I like to call “slow fall”. This is a […]
Autumn is an amazing time to chase walleye. As water temperatures cool, they feed heartily to prepare for winter. Walleye will hang out in many areas in autumn, but tributaries, bars, and humps are three […]
Autumn is a time for upsizing baits to catch trophy smallmouth bass. Big and chunky plastics top my list of presentations. Using a football jig head for rigging is an excellent choice. Here are three […]
A recent road trip to North Carolina and the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association annual meeting found me in Georgia on my way back home to Florida. I had an invitation to fish some brush piles […]
Fishing the late fall shift on northern lakes has its advantages. Largemouth bass can be relatively easy to locate and, for the most part, will be the largest you will find them all season long. […]
Bass Anglers are well aware that fluorocarbon line is a must-have tool because of its remarkable sensitivity as well as the fact that it sinks rapidly, driving crankbaits and other lures deeper. But fluoro fishing […]
To Say Korey Sprengel And Derek Navis Are A Dominant Force On The Professional Walleye Circuits Would Be A Gross Understatement. The Berkley Duo Capped A Dynamic Season In Style By Winning The Cabela’s Masters […]
A walleye never feels the breeze on its face. But rest assured, he loves the wind. That’s a fact too few anglers take into account – walleyes respond positively to changes in wind direction. How […]
Early in the fall, weather can be quite changeable with hot days and cool nights. The changes can be confusing to crappie. Once the weather begins to stabilize, with cooler temperatures the norm, fish tend […]
On a recent overcast morning, Dale Sides dropped his lines 25 feet to the bottom of the murky Ohio River. Just then, a green boat motored past. A few hundred yards from where Sides was […]
Have you ever been fishing and wished there was a sign saying right where the fish are? Well, fish attractors and the buoys that mark them are intended to do just that. We all know […]
Grenada Lake in Mississippi is known for big crappie, but it is an open lake and the wind can play havoc with the fishing if you don’t know how to handle it. I was there […]
Sonic Armor, LLC, a Florida based company, has completed testing the effectiveness of eliminating barnacles and algae on boats by using ultrasonic sound. Sonic Armor saves boat owners huge amounts of time, money and inconvenience […]
Fall is prime time to catch big numbers of slab crappies and prepare for ice fishing in the process. It’s easy, too. Armed with a few basic tenets of autumn fish location and behavior, you […]
Every year as we transition to late fall the bottom structure becomes more important and the ability to distinguish what type of bottom you are fishing is essential. On a lake like Guntersville the grass […]
Changes in the lake and lack of early grass have folks wondering how they catch a fish on a frog. Where are all those blow-ups we used to have and how come I can’t hear […]
Crappie anglers on Lake Barkley in the fall often get more than they bargained for in the form of a finny fight. Like its sister lake, Kentucky Lake, Lake Barkley is well known for panfish […]
A Cornish pensioner landed himself in the record books after catching the world’s biggest albino catfish smashing a record set by his mate an hour before. Retired pals Tom Herron, 68, and John Edwards, 74, […]
Your spouse wants to see the fall foliage. The kids need a break from schoolwork. You’ve done your part, too, singing those workingman blues. Before the craziness of the holidays, give yourself a minute to […]
Catfish anglers know the water and its surrounding structure above and below the surface. For those who ply the rivers of Illinois this often can be quite a challenge. They study the vegetation to find […]
Korey Sprengel, of Beaver Dam, Wisc., brought in a three-day total of 43.69 pounds to the win Cabela’s National Walleye Tour Championship at Lake Winnebego on September 20. The championship is the first for the […]
Would you like to catch more walleyes throughout the open-water season, from the first idyllic days of spring right through the gales of November? Then think outside the box, and don’t be afraid to test […]
B’n’M Poles Pro Staffer Travis Bunting is so in to dock shooting that he designed a plastic bait especially for the purpose. Travis and his dad, Charles Bunting have teamed up in the Bass Pro […]
The competition has been hot and heavy in this year’s Bass Pro Shops Big Cat Quest (BCQ) tournament trail. New Madrid, MO is a regular stop on the tournament trail, but this year the city […]
Because circle hooks help to significantly increase fish survival rates when practicing catch and release, they have been incorporated into live bait regulations for many states. The difference between a circle hook and a J-hook […]
I’ve said it so many times, and I don’t like to be redundant, but the autumn period is a wonderful time to go fishing for pretty much any specie of gamefish that swims in the […]
Every year as we transition into August and September, the search begins for the fall bite; as the bass move under the grass and off the deep ledges! The fact is that not all the […]
People may not learn to love blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay, but perhaps they will learn to love them on their plate. A draft report from a task force that spent more than a […]
Kryptoglanis shajii is a strange fish – and the closer scientists look, the stranger it gets. This small subterranean catfish sees the light of day and human observers only rarely, when it turns up in […]
Snook are Florida’s premier inshore species and summer is a great time to fish for them. You have options for where to find these hard-fighting fish but it comes down to this: Do you want […]
Pro-angler Keith Kavajecz, of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, brought in a two-day total of 53.50 pounds of walleye to win the pro-angler category of the Bays de Noc event for the Cabela’s National Walleye Tour (NWT) at […]
Walleyes are much harder to pattern in fall than in summer because most lakes stratify during the summer months, forming distinct temperature layers. The shallow water is usually too warm for walleyes and the deep […]
Juicy New “Meat” Methods Reinvigorate Bait, By Ted Pilgrim, Mar · i · nate (v) – to put meat or fish in a sauce for a period of time to add flavor or to make […]
First Reported By WV Metro News: An excursion to check out new gear turned into the fishing trip of a lifetime for Cabell County angler Austin Hoffman, who hooked a state-record blue catfish. The fish […]
Jefferson Post reported 1st: It was a team effort that landed 13-year-old Victoria Navaroli a state record fish from a private pond in Creston. In the early morning hours of July 12, the 13-year-old Charlotte […]
Lindy’s River Rocker has a curved profile and streamlined shape that produces a wide rocking wobble. Whether it is cast or trolled, this exaggerated action will draw strikes from a variety of species. Designed and […]
The summer of 2014 has finally arrived. Lots and lots of anglers are taking to the water in search of their favorite fish, and for many of those anglers, their favorite fish is that guy […]
The seemingly endless varieties of crappie fishing presentations produce good fishing in the Prairie State. Here are some to help you boat more crappies this year. Early season crappie fishing is highly dependent upon weather […]
On lakes great and small, enjoying solid walleye action from midsummer into fall hinges on staying in tune with seasonal migrations of the marble-eyed masses. Some of these sojourns span many miles, especially on big-water […]
Bass are among the most sought-after freshwater game fish. Everyone from professional anglers to weekend fishermen spend countless hours trying to discover the magic lure to catch bass every time they fish. But the truth […]
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