118 results for 'walleye'

When I first started fishing with plastic for walleye I was amazed at the fact that I could catch them on a plastic tail and a jig, often better than when using live bait. While walleye and sauger wou

I've enjoyed some great fishing on different rivers in March in the Midwest. Ice fishing is done and every year the fishing seems to get better! While the rest of the anglers are waiting until Apri

Jigging a live minnow is still the most popular way to catch river walleye and sauger, but a few alternatives can often be more effective.  I, for one, have been using plastics, blade baits, and spoon

Sometimes you have to get your butt whooped to learn something. I spent a long weekend last Spring on the Wisconsin River trying for early season walleye and sauger. On the drive up I stopped

Many lakes and rivers in the Midwest are loaded with walleye and white bass. While a lot of anglers target walleye and consider white bass a trash fish, I think that white bass fishing offers great

One thing I learned about fishing is that if you want to catch fish, you have to go where the fish are...unfortunately it took me forty years to figure that out! First off, you need to fish a lak

When a fish hits a blade bait, she'll try to rip the rod from your hand!  Even when you have 34-degree bodies of water, when walleye can only be caught on a jig head with a stinger hook, they will

Jigging a live minnow is the most popular way to catch river walleye and sauger. However, there are a few alternatives that will sometimes be more effective each Spring.  I, for one, have been using p

I learned how to fish from Old Man Doser. Mike Doser was an old German janitor who lived in the building across from ours when my father, Poppee got his first janitor job in Chicago on Irving Park Roa

If you are looking to catch walleye, sauger and white bass right now, you need to become a river fisherman. Rivers offer some of the best fishing for these species even while the lakes have closed

Steep breaklines are a favorite spot for Fall walleye and pike to feed. These are areas where schools of bait will huddle up. Active gamefish travel along the break line, corralling that school and sc

What is the AuthentX Craze? It's a new sensation sweeping fish nation...walleye and sauger love plastic! And B Fish N Tackle AuthentX Moxi's, Pulse-R's, Ribb-Finn's, Ringworms, Paddletails and K-Gr

"You gonna fish your way, I gonna fish mine!" - Poppee Poppee always fished way different than me. I was always, thinking, drilling, grabbing a different rod and generally panicking that

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Each Spring walleye and sauger move upriver to spawn and are readily catch-able within the first five miles of the dam. While they can be very susceptible to live bait at this time of year, more th

The month of May has always been a great month for walleye anglers in the Midwest. River fishing is still in full swing and lakes that had been closed for game fish spawning season will now be open

Walleye anglers now have more lure choices than ever before! While live bait still produces, more and more anglers are choosing walleye lures like Rapala Shad Raps, Berkley Flicker Shads, St

When I was a kid we didn't have much. It was a big deal to go for a drive out in the country and go apple picking. My mom was so happy. "Just look at the beautiful Fall colors", she would say. Once a

Snap jigging has been around for a while now. Fishing pros have been snap jigging for walleye for years. It’s a technique that has accounted for some limit catches, when most other methods fail. If

A lot of fishermen will identify themselves by the species of fish they target, this is especially true in the open water season. There are bass fishermen, walleye fishermen, crappie fishermen musk