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Targeting Muskie

Targeting Muskie By: Matt Eyman-Vavroch Early summer is a fantastic time to target muskies 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 Midwest and muskie range […]

Get Into The Outdoors

Get Into The Outdoors By Ryan Graden My wife and I have four daughters! You can all pray for us! But truthfully, I wouldn’t change it for the world. Having these young ladies in my life has been an incredible journey as we have raised them through the years. My oldest is sixteen and my […]

Trophy Fish What Makes Em’ Grow

Trophy Fish What Makes Em’ Grow By Ben Leal As a lifelong angler I have had the thrill of catching some genuine trophy fish. As a boy, a trophy was anything bigger than the last fish I caught. And in one case it was one that never took the bait, but one I could clearly […]

Springtime Spawning

Springtime Spawning By Kirsten Lundy Largemouth bass are a worldwide favorite sport fish, and, luckily for Iowans, can be found across various types of water bodies all around the state. In fact, the Iowa DNR currently reports the presence of these bass in over 500 lakes and streams. So it comes as no surprise that […]

Spring Bass Fishing 101

Spring Bass Fishing 101 By Todd Reed Each March and early April around the state of Iowa people start to focus their thoughts on catching that first bass of the year. Spring is an excellent time of year to target bass around Iowa and most likely you will catch your biggest bass of the whole […]

80 Years Collecting and Using Fishing Gear… Now What?

80 Years Collecting and Using Fishing Gear… Now What? By Tom A. Woodruff It all started in 1937 with a corn cob bobber used to fish off a sand bar in Long Crick in “Naturally” Louisa County, Iowa. Yes we always called a creek a crick there. Long crick and that darn corn cob bobber […]

Creating a Catman

Creating a Catman By Brad Durick DISCLAIMER: While this article should be very informative for getting a kid into catfishing it is also a gushing proud dad moment. Nobody thinks getting kids to participate in the outdoors is a bad thing. If you use social media you have probably come across a meme that says […]

Best Crappie Baits

Best Crappie Baits By Ben Leal 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… […]

The Eyes of March – Ice Out Walleyes

The Eyes of March – Ice Out Walleyes By Ben Leal Ask any fresh water angler what is one of the most sought after fish for table fare and you’ll get a resounding response, “walleye”. Sure, crappie and bluegill will come up in that conversation as well, but walleye by far will always be at […]

Preparing Your Boat for the Season

Preparing Your Boat for the Season By Todd Reed Hopefully the spring fishing season has treated you well here in the great state of Iowa. I have been out many times traveling through the state with a boat in tow. No matter if you have a 12-foot jon boat, or a 21-foot fiberglass boat, the […]

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