Vexilar FL-18 Series
Ice Fishing

Vexilar FL-18 Series

The FL-18 boasts features and performance previously not available on a three-color flasher depth finder / fish finder. The FL-18 offers a patented split screen flasher display. This allows you to zoom-in on the bottom […]

Ice Fishing

JM Rattlin Blade Spoon Kit

The JM Rattlin Blade Spoon Kit is available in two different sizes and features the Rattlin Blade Spoon in three of our most popular colors. These spoons feature stainless steel rattles inside a pyrex glass […]

Mercury Marine Celebrates 80 Years in Business
Boat News

Mercury Marine Celebrates 80 Years in Business

Mercury Marine will celebrate its 80th anniversary throughout 2019, reflecting on its strong heritage of innovation and leadership in the marine industry. On January 22, 1939, E. Carl Kiekhaefer purchased a bankrupt engine manufacturing plant […]

Ice Fishing

Rainbows In The Ice

The anticipation for the winter trout season for many anglers could easily be compared to a ten year old child on Christmas Eve who has done nothing but sit in front of their Christmas tree […]

Ken McBroom
Fishing News - Fresh

Welcome Ken McBroom To The Team

Growing ODU is all about finding the right pieces that help us move forward towards our goals. Its a nasty mix, grow organically (new subscribers to the magazine), grow traffic (new users and page views […]

Catching Winter Crappies on Spoons
Crappie Fishing

Catching Winter Crappies on Spoons

Spoons are among the best lures for catching crappie on deeper structure and cover in winter. When properly pumped, cast, trolled or fluttered, these flashy metal lures wiggle like baitfish with the bends. Crappie are […]

Ultimate Tackle Testimonial
Bass Fishing

Ultimate Tackle Testimonial

You might call it the ultimate tackle testimonial. Long before Jeff “Gussy” Gustafson flashed the Z-Man logo—or cashed a sponsor check from the cutting-edge South Carolina tackle company— the versatile tournament angler was already boating […]

Winter in my UpperLeftUSA Kitchen
Fishing News - Fresh

Winter in my UpperLeftUSA Kitchen

Today I’m starting out by using fresh Dungeness crab outta my home waters of Puget Sound located in Western Washington that I steamed for 12 minutes followed by cooling in a ice and water bath […]

Brunswick Invests in AI Marine Technology
Boat News

Brunswick Invests in AI Marine Technology

Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) two weeks ago confirmed it has completed an investment in Sea Machines Robotics, a leader in the development of autonomous technology and advanced perception systems for the marine industry. Sea Machines […]

Boat News

NMMA Launches Boating Safety Series

The National Marine Manufacturers Association has announced the launch of a new boating safety awareness series—boating safety brochures to help educate consumers on important boating safety guidelines. The series is available in print-ready and digital […]

Ice Fishing

Fluoro is Nice on Ice

While fluorocarbon’s been available for decades, anglers are just now taking note of its superiority for ice fishing My thoughts often turn wistful when I step onto a frozen lake these days. It’s not that […]

Ice Fishing

HT’S POLAR SAFETY GLOVES AND MITTS

HT Enterprises is pleased to introduce an all-new concept in glove and mitt design – the inclusion of safety picks sewn securely into the garment itself!  Now, instead of mistakenly leaving your safety picks behind […]

Ice Fishing

Rise and Float With Clam

The Rise Float Parka is a simplified version of our popular Ascent Float Suit. With Motion Float Technology, this new float parka has the security, mobility and breathability features you count on. The Rise Float […]

Bass Fishing

Find the Warm Water

  Most fishermen know about “hotspots,” those delightful areas near power plants where warm water gets discharged into waterways, attracting hordes of baitfish and gamefish. Less widely considered, but important to far more winter fishing […]

Top Three Crappie Baits
Crappie Fishing

Top Three Crappie Baits

For the past ten winters, I’ve enjoyed finessing winter bass with the Ned Rig. It was amazing at how effective Z-Man ElazTech baits like the ZinkerZ and Finesse TRD are for alluring cold-water bass. As […]

Fishing News - Fresh

Just What the Angler Ordered

From bass anglers looking for a better ‘trap’ to fish on world-renowned waters El Salto and Lake Fork, to walleye anglers jigging trophies through the ice on Lake Winnipeg and Erie—and for just about every […]