On an afternoon that started with some nasty looking weather and heavy rain, the teams gathered at the bait shop hoping that the worst had passed. The good news was that we pulled a lake about 30 miles to the north… away from the nasty stuff. In fact, this is the same lake we fished [...]
If nothing else, walleye fishing makes for some interesting evenings. Most evenings include at least one or two northern pike and a handful of perch. The other evening when my son and I were fishing I managed to catch three bullheads in a row. If you’ve ever caught a bullhead, you know what an adventure [...]
Just a quick note… About a week or two ago I exchanged emails with Jonathon over at Fishing Fury about the lack of walleye fishing information on their site. It’s a fantastic site, full of tons of information about a wide variety of fishing related information. It’s obvious from top to bottom that Jonathon and [...]
One hard lesson that we never seem to hear from the walleye fishing experts is that walleye, while they have some predictable patterns fishermen can use to find them, have an annoying habit of not showing up in the same place they were just a few nights before. If we accomplished anything in the last [...]
In this installment I feature a story by fellow Minnesota blogger MNAngler. He writes some great stuff that really captures the essence of the Minnesota fishing culture. While I have focused my efforts on the pursuit of the walleye, MNAngler puts the simple joy of fishing, no matter the species, into words and pictures in [...]
We took a couple of weeks off for some traveling, golfing and general family time. Always nice to get a break from work and the regular routine, but we were definitely ready to get back to fishing this week. As a tune-up, we headed north of town a few miles late last week to scope [...]
