Walleye

Without question, one of the most effective tactics for catching walleyes in rivers is vertical jigging. As the name implies, vertical jigging is the practice of fishing a jig vertically, directly below the boat, as you drift downstream with the current.

Allow me to detour a moment from widely accepted methods of catching early season river walleyes. Not every walleye (or sauger) responds to a vertically presented jig-n-minnow fished right under the boat.

Did you ever wonder why choppy water usually makes

Suspending

Even with a steady growth in the popularity of ice fishing over the past few years, there is still a fair contingent of wall

As summer begins to wind down and the season edges towar

Vertical: It is a double-edged sword when it comes to catching through-the-ice walleyes.

My partner Tom Ference flipped his

Pure Fishing Pro Mark Brumbaugh offers BPS 1Source a glimpse into his ample bag of tricks when it comes to catching walleyes.

When the Professional Walleye Trail headed south a dozen years ago, it's likely a few eyebrows were raised on logo-capped heads. Destinations like Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky and Arkansas — bass country — seemed a far ways removed from the northern walleye belt of the Great Lakes states and upper Missouri River reservoirs.