I saw a couple of articles this past week referring to the latest announcement by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources that efforts to stop the spread of invasive species on Minnesota lakes will now shift further away from education and more heavily toward enforcement. What this means exactly is the subject of a bit [...]
For those who follow the various walleye fishing tournament tours it will come as no surprise that Tom Keenan captured his second FLW Walleye Angler of the Year honor recently with his fifth place finish on Lake Oahe. I had the opportunity to present Tom with a few questions and he was kind enough to [...]
I’ve mentioned a few times in this blog that we were given the opportunity to participate in the Cabela’s National Team Championship walleye tournament on Little Bay de Noc this year. We finally made the trek at the beginning of the month and it did not disappoint. Our first tournament was a great deal of [...]
With air temperatures in the 50s, water temperatures in the upper 40s and the occasional wind gust in the 30s we headed out on Lake Bemidji for the 2011 walleye opener. The morning was spent taking care of a few odds and ends with the truck and the boat, so we didn’t hit the water [...]
The sun finally exerted its will in Northern Minnesota today and warmed us up into the high 50s. After a nice Easter dinner I got the itch to see if there was any spawning action in the area, so Junior and I jumped in the truck with the dogs and made a little 6 mile [...]
The walleye fishing season officially closes on inland Minnesota lakes on the last weekend in February. For most walleye anglers, this leaves an agonizing 75 day gap in the walleye fishing schedule. Fortunately, there are some options for those who wish to make a drive to one of a few fisheries that lay on state [...]
Those who follow tournament walleye fishing have certainly heard the name Pete Harsh. He has been at it since 1983 and since that time has amassed several tournament wins and the prestigious 2008 FLW Walleye Angler of the Year. He recently joined Team Evinrude and I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to [...]
For anyone interested… this is how you get kids excited about fishing. Last month I received a message in my inbox from Wendy Dallmann, a physical education teacher from Prairie Farm High School in Wisconsin. I do a bit of drawing and Wendy found some of my work on another web site that I set [...]
Once again a bill has been introduced in the Minnesota House of representatives which would modify current wording to allow anglers to use two lines to take fish. Currently, anglers are only allowed a single line except when ice fishing at which time two lines are allowed. This has, of course, set off all sorts [...]
I made the annual trek to Taber’s Bait yesterday to sign up for the 2011 walleye league. As one of the perks of finishing in the top two the previous season, we were offered the opportunity to fish in Cabela’s National Team Championship walleye tournament on the Bays De Noc on upper Lake Michigan. 250 [...]
