ShareIf 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 [...]

ShareOne 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 [...]

ShareIn 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 [...]

ShareWe 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 [...]

ShareAfter a week of some odd weather, including tornados, torrential rain and a beautiful sunny weekend we headed out for a night of fishing league not sure what mood the fish would be in. We drew a lake that we fished a week or so before, and on that night we managed to find a [...]

ShareWe’ve had about one day of sunshine so far this June. We’ve gotten rain of some kind every night that we have fished this month, and Tuesday was no different. After 5 straight nights of walleye fishing on a few area lakes, we felt ready for the night and were happy to find out the [...]

ShareWe fished Friday night just to get out with some friends for a fishing night. There was a pretty good wind and we managed to find some walleyes on top of the big mid-lake flat. Small walleyes… but walleyes nonetheless. So when we pulled the lake for league Tuesday night I figured we had a [...]

Share Not much to say about this big walleye. The boy hauled it in last night using a leech on a Lindy Rig in 20 feet. She measured out at 28 inches. After returning it safely to the water he boated a 23 and a 19, both put back in the lake. His mother pulled [...]

ShareWhen the lake for this week was announced as a “surprise” at the bait shop, the news was met with a whole bunch of grumbling and complaining. This lake had been dubbed the “Dead Sea” for a few years for its notorious lack of walleye action, and a few of the guys in the league [...]

ShareIt was back to the real world this week for my son and I. After managing to scrounge up enough fish to nail down third place last week, we came up short last night with no weighable fish in the live well. This is fishing… sometimes you find them, sometimes you don’t. With the second [...]