Fishing

News & Tips: How to Make Sauger Your Bonus Walleye Catch...
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How to Make Sauger Your Bonus Walleye Catch

Like its big cousin, the walleye, saugers provide a dependable early spring bite in many systems. There are tips and tricks to make sauger more than just a bonus catch when targeting walleyes.  …
News & Tips: Got Cabin Fever? Get Your Fishing Hooks Ready for the Next Season...
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Got Cabin Fever? Get Your Fishing Hooks Ready for the Next Season

If you are like me and live in Canada or in the Northern United States where there is still ice over the water, and the ice is not thick enough to be on safely, but too thick to break through with…
News & Tips: Classic Lures: Worden's Flatfish and STORM ThinFin...
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Classic Lures: Worden's Flatfish and STORM ThinFin

A Pair of Classic Lures: Worden's Flatfish and STORM ThinFin Worden's Flatfish Worden's Flatfish has a unique offering for gamefish. In 1933, after years of working on lathes and experimenting,…
News & Tips: Go Silent With Crankbaits for Largemouth Bass...
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Go Silent With Crankbaits for Largemouth Bass

Tossing crankbaits for largemouth bass is an exciting and effective approach when fish are up shallow. Square bill cranks account for a lot of caught fish, and a recent wrinkle is offering up the…
News & Tips: Using Bead Heads in Fly Fishing
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Using Bead Heads in Fly Fishing

If you take a quick look into your fly box, what do you see? Do you have barrage of gold bead head nymph patterns lining your fly box or a run of the traditional weighted nymphs? In most cases,…
News & Tips: Wild Rainbow Trout Eases in Fishing Season...
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Wild Rainbow Trout Eases in Fishing Season

Long bank sections of the mountain stream where heavily lined with piles of ice, the frozen reminders of a severe winter. Driven there by high water during the flush of a recent thaw and high water…
News & Tips: Product Review: Bass Pro Shops XPS Lazer Blade Lures...
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Product Review: Bass Pro Shops XPS Lazer Blade Lures

The popular Bass Pro Shops XPS Lazer Blade lure has an overall rating of 4.6 out of 5 on basspro.com. Clearly, I'm not the only fan of this fine quality metal lure that retails for around $4.79. Here…
News & Tips: Product Review: Z-Man Turbo CrawZ
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Product Review: Z-Man Turbo CrawZ

About it: One of Z-Man's newest additions to their ElaZtech lineup of plastic baits is the Turbo CrawZ, and it is making a big splash. With spring bass fishing already upon us, this is the time to…
News & Tips: Three Cs of Spring Crappie Fishing
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Three Cs of Spring Crappie Fishing

Spring's a productive time to fish crappie as these panfish stack-up on predictable spots and are often willing biters. Immediately following ice-out you'll find crappie in and around protected,…
News & Tips: Fishing the Shad Migration Along Coastal Rivers...
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Fishing the Shad Migration Along Coastal Rivers

A brilliant orange sun crept above the horizon as I eased into the crisp, clear waters of Virginia's Rappahannock River. The air was chilly, but layers of warm clothes and neoprene chest waders kept…
News & Tips: Prowling America's Backwaters for Some of the Hottest Fishing...
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Prowling America's Backwaters for Some of the Hottest Fishing

Backwaters. They're the places anglers used to fish before big reservoirs came along. In this article: Finding Good Backwaters | Boots & Equipment | Tactics for Fishing | Other Backwater…
News & Tips: 4 Key Tools for Catch and Release Fishing (video)...
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4 Key Tools for Catch and Release Fishing (video)

With catch and release fishing, both time and careful skill are key to keeping your catch alive. Proper fishing tools and a quick and gentle release is required to get your catches back into the…