The air hummed with the drone of cicadas. A slight breeze waffled the surface. The depthfinder revealed activity at 60 feet. The rig walked over rocks in a broken, tapping litany. An aggressive tap....View article
Finesse isn’t my strong suit, particularly when it comes to putting tough-bite panfish on the ice. I prefer carpet-bombing relatively beefy spoons over wide stretches of fish-holding areas to putzing...View article
Fast and flashy, spoons drive through slush-filled holes, get to bottom fast and draw fish off all sizes and shapes in from a distance. When compared to more subtle presentations, the weight of spoons...View article
These lines highlight the importance of personal freedom and refusal to follow the crowd. From my experience, I believe there are many applications in business and investing for which this advice holds...View article
As we worked our way along a huge, emerging rock reef, bass seemed to disappear. We noted the time. High noon on a bright, sunny day with little wind. We decided to fish to the end of the reef, then...View article
Pavlov’s dogs, fed for days at the sounding of a bell, began to salivate at the chime with no food in sensory range. Few witness that kind of conditioning, but perhaps you’ve seen a dog cower at...View article
Jigging is vertical jigging; pitching jigs to shallow rocks, weeds, or wood; tossing jigs middle distances on shallow to middepth flats; vertical jigging in current; pitching and drifting jigs in current;...View article
Most natural lakes with naturally reproducing walleye populations feature at least one of three basic types of spawning areas where walleyes deposit eggs across a shallow (2- to 6-foot-deep) expanse...View article
My guess is that only a few eccentric walleye fanatics have fallen asleep dreaming about their boat drifting over thousands of walleyes weighing between 6 and 14 pounds. Oh, I suppose a few have conjured...View article
