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News & Tips: Travel Blog: Tips For Light Tackle Tarpon Travel...
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Travel Blog: Tips For Light Tackle Tarpon Travel

My strike/hookup/release ratio on the silver king remains fairly high, compared to the fabled averages and there's been based on lots of years of traveling to different tarpon destinations and trying…
News & Tips: Wisconsin's Early Trout Season
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Wisconsin's Early Trout Season

If you are lucky enough to live in a Wisconsin county that has early season regulations (catch and release), getting out and wetting a line the first weekend in March could be quite an adventure. (…
News & Tips: Take Advantage of Twilight on Ice
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Take Advantage of Twilight on Ice

  The author holds a walleye that hit at dusk on Lake of the Woods in Ontario's Sunset Country. While ice fishing is exhilarating, it can also be challenging at times. Frigid temperatures will…
News & Tips: What Size Hole?
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What Size Hole?

Choosing the best hand auger is a common dilemma for those that flood the ice each winter. Many feel that "The bigger the hole, the better," but, depending on specie targeted, ice conditions, and…
News & Tips: Price of Quality Fishing Gear
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Price of Quality Fishing Gear

We were fishing together, yet we were fishing in two different boats. Neither of us wanted to fish from the back of another angler's boat — both of us wanted to fish from the bow. Our solution has…
News & Tips: Tying the Black Nose Dace
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Tying the Black Nose Dace

The Black Nose Dace is one of those special fly patterns that fly fisherman have favored for years on end. This streamer pattern was created by Art Flick in the early 1950s and works when nothing…
News & Tips: Soft Baits for Ice Fishing
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Soft Baits for Ice Fishing

Fishing on ice regularly puts anglers up against fussy fish and coaxing onlookers to bite is one of the fun challenges of this winter activity. Carrying a good selection of soft-baits and using them…
News & Tips: Dos and Don'ts of Fishing
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Dos and Don'ts of Fishing

There are a lot of things you can do right in fishing and a lot of things you can do wrong, simply because you didn’t know there were such things to be aware of when fishing. To shed some light on…
News & Tips: Early Season Stream Smallmouth
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Early Season Stream Smallmouth

  Dave Keith with a smallmouth.   One of the more overlooked angling options is that provided by smallmouth bass in smaller flowing waters, low gradient streams, the kind that get too warm for…
Angler with spinning rod and reel leaning over boat lifing up a largemouth bass
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Choosing Freshwater Fishing Gear: Spinning or Baitcasting

Newcomers to the freshwater angling world usually find spinning gear easier to use than baitcasters. Learning to operate and cast with a spinning rod and reel is relatively painless and free from the…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: A Green Turtle Cay Adventure...
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Travel Blog: A Green Turtle Cay Adventure

Many offshore and flats anglers are all too aware of the excellent fishing that Abaco Island offers in the Bahamas. Although it is considered an "out island", it is only a short one hour flight from…
News & Tips: 2013 Bass Fishing Hall of Fame Induction...
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2013 Bass Fishing Hall of Fame Induction

THREE TO BE ENSHRINED IN BASS FISHING HALL OF FAME Class of 2013 includes Mike Folkestad, Darrell Lowrance and Jack Wingate Tulsa, Okla. (February 18, 2013) — For their major impacts on the world of…