Baits

My Favorite Smallmouth Bass Techniques

My Favorite Smallmouth Bass Techniques As a child growing up, my summer vacations were filled with fishing adventures, from the local lakes and creeks to our annual family vacation to Catch’N Fish resort on Big Bass Lake (seriously, that was the name of the place). Early mornings in the pre-dawn hours, the dads would load […]

How to Target Iowa Muskie

How to Target Iowa Muskie Early summer is a fantastic time to learn how to target Iowa muskie in the southern part of the Midwest muskie range. Depending on where you are, places throughout the Midwest have a yearlong season for these fish. Unlike the upper parts of the […]

Best Crappie Baits

Best Crappie Baits Crappie…animals that forage for discrete, isolated resources are often characterized as either “ambush” (sit-and-wait) or “cruise” (active) searchers. Juvenile white crappie, Pomix annularis, search for zooplankton prey using a salutatory search (SS) strategy. Unlike ambush and cruise, SS involves… Had you readers going there for a moment didn’t I… Well lucky […]

Bait and Lures for Ice Fishing

Bait and Lures for Ice Fishing Ice Fishing opportunities are increasing across the state of Iowa right now, and there is no better time to go out and give it a try. What was once a simple sport of drilling a hole in the ice and sitting on a five-gallon bucket has turned into a […]