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Five nail-polish shades to get you started, from left to right: Pure Ice #616 (lime green). Sinful Colors Professional #928…»

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Steelhead Chronicles My good friend Stan Blood e-mailed me today. He was on Michigan’s Big Manistee River yesterday and popped…»

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For decades In-Fisherman has recommended versatility as a piscatorial attribute.  And on September 14, Brent Frazee ofParkville,Missouri, exhibited an extraordinary…»

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Smallmouth Chronicles  The Bomber 6A almost certainly accounted for more smallmouths than any other crank I pitched between 1994 and…»

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When discussing all the exotic invaders parading through the Great Lakes, we may soon be forced to scratch zebra mussels…»

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As mentioned, I often use the double uni to join lines together, usually to tie a mono or fluorocarbon leader…»

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Smallmouth  Chronicles After writing yesterday’s post on the Salmo Hornet, Mary and I hit the river for the last two…»

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Since the late 1960s, an integral part of our piscatorial endeavors has been to purse white bass when our summertime…»

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The Smallmouth Chronicles Hottest Cranks This Fall People who know me are asking what’s with all the char? In angling…»

The artful dodger and a monster char.

Char Countdown Continues: Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories. It resides on the shoreline of Great Slave Lake,…»

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For more than a quarter of a century, Gary Parsons has rendered an indelible influence on walleye fishing. He has…»

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  Night can be the great equalizer—walleyes, stripers, catfish, brown trout, muskies that turn tough by day often gorge at…»

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  Avid bass anglers enthusiastically await fall fishing, and for good reason. In southern waters, the stifling heat of summer…»

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  The trip with Guide Jason Schultz up the Snake River into the head of Hell’s Canyon in a search…»

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Turner Jones has been in the fishing industry longer than anyone else I know. He may or may not have…»

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Diane Carlson Escanaba Michigan Brought my girlfriend Diane to do a little pike fishing in the Escanaba harbor on the…»

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Mid-day high sun, almost 90 degrees, and calm—not great conditions for catfishing in lakes in Minnesota. In-Fisherman Field Editor Cory…»

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People apparently wanted to see more Arctic char in spawning colors. And who wouldn’t? It’s like a Star Wars festival in…»

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On September 16, Leonard Jirak of Hartford, Kansas, retired at the age of 61 from his job as the Kansas…»

Even though our primary focus is upon catching 101 bass in four hours, we do at times tangle with a lunker or two. This six-pounder was caught on March 9, 2011, and it was allured by a 1/32-ounce chartreuse Gopher Tackle Mushroom Jig Head affixed to a Z-Man green-pumpkin Finesse ShadZ.

    At 10:45 a.m. on September 9,  Steve Desch of Topeka, Kansas, and I were preparing to launch the…»

A ZinkerZ that is rigged crookedly on the jig, which causes it to roll and twist when its retrieved. We call this the J-rig.

Most bass fishermen are nitpickers when it comes to affixing a soft-plastic bait to a hook, jig or spinnerbait. They…»

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    With no parts moving, the whole thing moves. Seems unnatural to us. But to fish living in water…»

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    Since 1992, I have spent a number of days watching some of the luminaries in the bass fishing…»

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A Precision Swimbait System for Muskies and Pike     Weedlines—the mother of all edges. On one side, open water.…»

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    Brent Ehrler of Redlands, California, has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in professional bass fishing. He began…»