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Catfishing Always Presents Challenges: You Can Be Prepared

Catfishing Always Presents Challenges: You Can Be Prepared By Brad Durick It seems if you catfish it is inevitable that something will happen that can turn your day upside down. Most of this is out of your control. If you fish enough you know how this can go all too well. You know that little […]

Introduce Someone New To Fishing

Introduce Someone New To Fishing By Ben Leal Most of us probably have someone in our lives that took the time to introduce us to fishing. It may have been a grandparent, your Dad or your Mom, or even just a friend that invited you out one day. So the seed was planted, and you’re […]

Ice-Out Channel Catfish

Ice-Out Channel Catfish. By Nick Johnson. It might come as a surprise to many anglers to learn that channel catfish go on a feeding rampage almost as soon as the ice starts to melt in many of the reservoirs or lakes containing shad and other baitfish. These water bodies experience routine winter die-offs like this […]

Iowa River Monsters: The Quest for Flatheads

Iowa River Monsters: The Quest for Flatheads By Nick Johnson It’s not too often that I get to write an article about an actual fishing story. I’m not talking about the tale of Catfish Hunter or a story that grows with age, but rather a story of adventure, taking place right in the heart of […]

Iowa’s State Record Fish: Part 1

Iowa’s State Record Fish: Part 1 By Ben Leal Iowans enjoy some of the best outdoor opportunities of any State within this great Nation of ours. We have whitetail deer hunting that is without a doubt one of the best. Turkey is not far behind and pheasant are on the rebound. We are bordered by […]

K.I.S.S Catfish

K.I.S.S Catfish By Brad Durick In this day and age we all have the insatiable desire to learn as much as we can about what we love to do, in this case catfishing. From what is the sharpest hook to what is the best way to side image a hole full of catfish and set […]

Campfire Catfish

Campfire Catfish By Brad Durick Camping season is in full swing and it’s time to enjoy some good food around the fire after a long day of fishing, boating, hiking, climbing, kayaking or whatever your passion may be. With a little prep work done it’s simple to have a gourmet meal with minimal effort. What […]

The Spawn Of Catfish

The Spawn Of Catfish By Brad Durick If there is one time of the catfishing season that delivers the most complaints, the most negative attitude and the most arguments about how to catch a channel catfish, it is the spawn and the post spawn. These times happen every year whether we like it or not […]

The Thaw: Ice Out Habits of Iowa Game Fish

The Thaw: Ice Out Habits of Iowa Game Fish By Nick Johnson The disappearance of ice come spring is a sad time for those of us who love to ice fish. We begrudgingly put away the sleds, augers, and shacks and give one final farewell to all the gear until next winter. But alas, open […]

Whiskers and Ditty Poles

Whiskers and Ditty Poles By Brad Durick One of my fondest memories of setting bank poles, or ditty poles as many call them, took place on the Des Moines River two summers ago. My friends Josh, Jarred and I fished for two nights out of Jarred’s big twenty foot flat-bottom and camped along the bank. […]

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