by Captain Marty Papke It’s all about details fisherman and the more details the better fishing gets for all species. It’s also about the goals we each have as anglers to what we want to achieve this year on the water. Walleye, Northern Pike, Perch, Small and Largemouth Bass, Brown Trout, Rainbows to Salmon and… Continue Reading
by Captain Marty Papke It’s not far away fisherman and longer, sunny warming days start the ice melting, ice flows still bobbing and soon a movement of Brown Trout on an adventure looking and seeking food to satisfy there big appetite after a winter of being in a transitional stage. Let’s examine areas, foods along… Continue Reading
by Chip Leer In simple mathematics, the sum is always greater than the parts. In fishing, a jig is just a jig and a minnow is just a minnow when they stand alone. However, if you put them together, they make a lethal combination for springtime walleyes across the Midwest. Like Puckett and Hrbek or… Continue Reading
By Dave Lamoreaux The early season (opening day-Mid May) is the best time of year to catch numbers of Eyes on the ” Desert “. For the first couple weeks in May, the fish are usually in some part of their spawning ritual – pre-spawn, spawning, or post-spawn. For that reason, they tend to be… Continue Reading
By Captain Marty Papke Take a look in any angler’s boat and the one thing that you will almost always see is an anchor. Watch any angler fish and the one thing you will almost never see them use is that same anchor. It seems like, for most anglers, anchors are something that we have… Continue Reading
by Captain Marty Papke On Little Bay de Noc and Big Bay de Noc, Michigan much of the fishing is done by boat fisherman. This doesn’t mean the shore angler can’t be successful. Lets look at these ideas on your next trip to our Bays water. Anglers love to fish piers. Beachfront piers, public piers… Continue Reading
by Captain Marty Papke Summertime and walleyes go hand in hand with hot conditions and warming waters. Walleyes like all game fish don’t like to expend too much energy cruising for food or chasing it down. They would rather hold in areas with high concentrations of food sources and then gorge themselves when the opportunity… Continue Reading
by Chip Leer It’s 4:30 p.m. on a late-December afternoon, and dusk is settling over the lake. You’re six miles off shore, and you’ve been set up for an hour, making sure everything is just right for what has been a red-hot evening crappie bite. In fact, the first big slab has just appeared on… Continue Reading
By Tommy Skarlis and Chip Leer Fish have a brain about the size of a pea. They have a stomach that’s roughly 20 times that large. Fortunately for those of us who love to fish through the ice, one feeds the other. While a crappie or perch isn’t capable of figuring out where to find… Continue Reading
by Captain Marty Papke It’s what we’ve been waiting for those hot, lazy, crazy days of August and then someone says it’s too “hot” to catch any walleye! The excuses start: too hot, too calm, too much humidity, too many fish (walleye’s) and not enough days to fish them! If your looking for a time… Continue Reading