Trolling

If you think a slider is a White Castle burger or maybe a hard-to-hit baseball pitch partway between a curveball and fastball, you’re only half right. Touring walleye pro John Gillman, best known...View article

Sometimes looks can be deceiving. When my mother returned from a scenic cruise of the Lake Erie islands, she was quick to ask how I find, and fish for, walleyes on such a monstrous body of water. From...View article

Controlled drifting is the use of wind and motor maneuvers to control your direction while you slowly float with the wind.  Controlled drifting can be executed from the bow or the transom.  In lighter...View article

In fall, walleyes make the move upstream. Once they reach a dam or barrier, they fall back into portions of the river immediately downstream where current is reduced. Dams are an obvious barrier, but...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

They say necessity is the mother of invention. Here are several simple yet ingenious solutions to trolling challenges that also will not only improve your effectiveness, but also make life a whole lot...View article

(An interview with Gary Parsons, as told to Dave Csanda.) Fox News bills themselves as the network for fair and balanced coverage, while MSNBC claims to be America’s News Channel....View article

The idea of fishing for walleyes in cover is hard enough for many structure-fishing purists to swallow. Now, we ask them to go one step farther and consider the possibility of fishing for suspended...View article

Schooled walleyes roaming open water, either suspending or lying over open basins, generally are the province of trolling with either planer boards or divers, snap weights, and crankbaits, spinners,...View article