Musky/Pike

Night Shift – On Ice
Night Shift – On Ice By Rod Woten Having a full-time day job can sure cut into a person’s ice fishing time. It’s bad enough that our ice fishing season is short and seems to get shorter every year, but the fact that we have to spend five days a week wasting some of the […]
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Raising an Outdoors Child
Train Up A Child When I was a child I had my life, and my parents had theirs; they did not try to weave their lives into my life; we were not best friends. I did what was normal for a nine-year-old boy, while my parents worked, mowed the yard, went to church suppers, […]
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Dissecting A New Body of Water Through the Ice
Dissecting A New Body of Water Through the Ice By Todd Reed We all have those go-to lakes near our homes that “guarantee” a good days’ catch. It is very rewarding to figure out a lake and its subtleties to find the fish we seek out during the wintertime. These are the lakes we return […]
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A Day on the Ice with… Me!
A Day on the Ice with… Me! By Rod Woten One of the questions I hear several times every ice season as I’m presenting seminars or making retail in-store appearances is, “what’s it like to be an Ice Team Pro?” Simply put, it is AWESOME! I get to travel the ice belt and talk about […]
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Dead Sticking on Ice
Dead Sticking on Ice By Ben Leal When the ice fishing season gets well underway fishing begins to slow down a bit. The much colder water will slow down the metabolism of the quarry we are chasing. They also move out into deeper haunts of the lake, suspending in schools waiting for tasty morsels to […]
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2024 Boating Accessories
2024 Boating Accessories Boat: a device that allows a person to float on water. That is a simple definition of a boat, and one that I do not think of when speaking about boats. Depending on the day I may think of a boat as a shiny, fast moving bass boat, and on other days […]
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Early Ice Iowa
Early Ice Iowa By Rod Woten Just because Iowa is on the southern edge of the ice belt, doesn’t mean we can’t take advantage of early ice. Obviously “early” is a relative term here since we usually lag behind our Minnesota brethren by a couple of weeks when it comes to setting foot on the […]
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Minnesota Ice Fishing Nothing Like it
Minnesota Ice Fishing… It’s Like No Other What happens when you combine over 10,000 lakes loaded with fish in a state that produces consistent below freezing temps? You have the recipe for ice fishing of epic proportion. Throw in a myriad of full service resorts, outfitters and sleeper fish house businesses that cater to ice […]
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Best All Around Lures For Fall Fishing
Best All Around Lures For Fall Fishing By Ben Leal Fall in Iowa brings with it cool temperatures and shorter days. Fishing in general has picked up; fish are feeding and getting ready for the deep freeze that is on the horizon. Fish are moving shallow chasing after their favorite quarry and the action will […]
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Difference in Catching Fish in the Summer vs. the Fall
Difference in Catching Fish in the Summer vs. the Fall By Todd Reed As another page on the calendar is turned and the heat of summer is now gone, fall is in the air. To many fall equates to hunting seasons and football, while some outdoors people are still enjoying the sport of fishing. If […]
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