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Best of Both Worlds
When Van Halen released their 1986 hit song “Best of Both Worlds”, I highly doubt they had fly fishing in mind. That’s unfortunate because my favorite fly fishing rig, the [...]
Trout Stay-cation
By Rod Woten Stay-cations are all the rage now. Taking a vacation without investing lots of time and money getting to the destination just makes a lot of sense. After [...]
Gold On Ice: Tactics for Winter Carp
By: Nick Johnson Pound for pound, not many North American fish in fresh water fight harder than the Common Carp. There is no question that many, if not most of [...]
Fly Fishing for Stream Carp: Iowa’s Bonefish
By: Nick Johnson Arguably the hardest fight I have ever experienced on a fly rod did not come from a 4lb smallmouth bass, or a 20" cutthroat trout, or even [...]
A Day of Giants: Bowfishing Adventure
By: Nick Johnson It was a day with an outcome that wasn't planned. Myself, and good friend Eric Katzenmeyer were set up to fish for bass in Cedar Lake just [...]
Fall Wipers And White Bass
By Johnnie Crain Make no mistake; fall fishing for wipers and white bass on lakes can be great fun. The action is fast and furious, exciting, hard work and these [...]
A Professor of Trout
Eric L. Kilburg By late January the accumulation of snow on the park road at Backbone State Park was, without a doubt, impassible by car, even for a couple adventurous [...]
Kayak 101: Taking Your Iowa Aquatic Exploration Off Shore.
Kayak 101: Taking your Iowa aquatic exploration off shore. Aaron Stonehocker Growing up in Iowa, most of my fishing memories were forged on the shore lines of a local lake [...]
