January 2012 Archives › In-Fisherman

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Video: Doug Stange introduces us to some terrific jig trailer lures for largemouth bass.

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Big walleyes: Don’t often travel in big packs. They may tend to be solitary in some environments. Often hunt different…»

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We muster at Hunter’s Point, 7 a.m.. I board a troop transport driven by Tony Roach—a flatbed trailer pulled by…»

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Rick Hammer caught this one on a Lindy Bug. (That I gave him.) And a wax worm. To find him,…»

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This is a photograph of my finesse spinning tackle. It features a Garcia Cardinal Four reel that I purchased for…»

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Anglers have requested more details about and  photographs of the soft-plastic  lures that Midwest finesse anglers employ throughout the year.…»

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The beauty of living in paradise isn’t just having access to bluegills like this. But it helps. We punched holes…»

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  “I hope we can get up in here and get a few fish before the tide goes out,” said…»

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  It’s ICAST, the fishing industry’s annual big tackle show, 2011, and I’m sitting across a table from two Latvians…»

On December 10, 2011, we posted a blog entitled “Cold-water crappie times in Kansas.” Then we posted an update on…»

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Abundance, position, and vulnerability of prey are important factors in the eagerness of bass and other predators to attack. With…»

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Age is a limit we place on ourselves. Chang, Lost Horizon Paradise, for me, is an open river, ice shelves…»

Some readers of our January 11 blog entitled “A Month-by-Month Guide to Midwest Finesse” were intrigued by this section: “Our…»

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Dark out, slipping across the yard. Light dusting of snow on the porch. Four bluegills, quickly cleaned and scaled at…»

John Kehde and Steve Bloess of Sedalia, Missouri, recently reported that three muskie were caught by anglers at the Lake…»

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We have had several petitions from readers of our recent blog entitled  ”A Month-by-Month Guide to Midwest Finesse” to elaborate…»

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The temperature dropped over the past few days to 0°F or so. Great for mending cracks in the ice, but…»

Cumberland River guide Fred McClintock with a fair brown trout from a Kentucky tailrace.

Don Wirth: When cold water rushes through the turbines of a dam, an incredible, albeit artificial, stream trout fishery can…»

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Rick Hammer of Aqua-Vu hoists a pretty one from the waters of a nearby lake. And, of course, he’s not…»

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Beginning around 2001 a cadre of northeastern Kansas bass anglers launched a renaissance of the finesse fishing tactics that the…»

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No, not this one. She’s not 50 inches. That’s guide David “Shoggie” Shogren. He’s 50 inches. Easy. He’s holding our…»

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Back in the late 1970s,  young Dion Hibdon’s science project spawned a revolution in how bass anglers dressed their bucktail…»

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  In 2011, I fished 127 times, which encompassed 508 hours. Throughout the year, I made more solo and shorter…»

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The sidebar entitled “About Catch Rates” in Ralph Manns’article in the In-Fisherman’s Winter 2011/2012 issue sparked a considerable amount of…»