Fishing the WildSide On Ice
by Chip Leer It’s 4:30 p.m. on a late-December afternoon, and dusk is settling over the lake. You’re six miles off shore, and you’ve been set up for an hour, making sure everything is just right for what has been…Read More
Ice Fishing Feeding Frenzy
By Tommy Skarlis and Chip Leer Fish have a brain about the size of a pea. They have a stomach that’s roughly 20 times that large. Fortunately for those of us who love to fish through the ice, one feeds…Read More
The “Hot Summer Eyes” of Bay De Noc
by Captain Marty Papke It’s what we’ve been waiting for those hot, lazy, crazy days of August and then someone says it’s too “hot” to catch any walleye! The excuses start: too hot, too calm, too much humidity, too many…Read More
Crankin’ Night Eyes
by Captain Marty Papke It’s after the supper hour and you finish your meal, don’t become a couch potato, as some of the most active fishing of the day will soon commence. Night-time walleye fishing is coming on strong. In…Read More
Fall Crankbait Fishing
by Mike Mladenik Crankbaits will catch fish most of the season, but they can become very effective in fall. Crankbaits come in all shapes and sizes and they will catch all types of fish. Smallmouth bass prefer thin 2 to…Read More
About Lakes, Weeds and Muskies
by Craig S. Engebretson Many times a season people will call and ask me about a particular lake or lakes that they were “just up” fishing or were planning to fish on their next vacation. Is there something more you…Read More
Fishin’ The Woodpile For Walleyes
by John H. Myhre Fishing in the woodpile? I realize winters can get rather long and that about now some of you might tend to think that over the winter I have been sniffing to much wood smoke. However, let me…Read More
Flowage Fishing
by Rick Writz Natural undeveloped beauty combined with an excellent and varied fishery consisting of walleye, northern, smallmouth bass, musky, and some of the biggest perch, bluegill, and crappie you will ever catch. Sounds almost too good to be true,…Read More
Eating like a Pauper, not a King
by John Peterson with Noel Vick Take the walleye. As ice anglers, we’ve come to recognize the moods, customs, and characteristics of winter’s premium fare. We understand, for example, that these predacious creatures are highly carnivorous. We also know that…Read More
To Ice Spoon, or not to Ice Spoon…
by Jeff Beckwith There’s no argument, the vertical jigging spoon is ice fishing’s dominant lure. Fish have surrendered to hammered metal and forged lead since, well…since folks decided that ice could no longer separate them from quarry. I’m talking eons.…Read More
