The Mississippi River is a favorite destination of mine. The river offers a steady flow of current, and walleyes, current and current seams go hand in hand. One of the more popular summertime live baits used here for walleyes is...

Defining structure in any given system can be a challenge, lakes and reservoirs especially. However, rivers act as a big billboard showing anglers exactly where structure is located as the flowing water rushes around and over it. The savvy ‘River-Rat’...

Trolling is a popular walleye presentation and also a fishing method practiced with a wide variety of fishing lines. The problem is, most fishing lines don’t have the necessary properties to make them “good” for the job. Understanding what constitutes...

On a lot of walleye waters, particularly shield lakes (but some reservoirs as well), a good number of walleyes relate to deep rock structure from summer well into fall. We did a show on Lake of the Woods in the...

Not all lakes will harbor weed walleyes. This is a pattern primarily found in natural lakes since most reservoirs rarely contain any significant weed habitat, or at least not of the right type and density to hold any major population...

  Water bodies such as the Great Lakes or large natural lakes like Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago, feature immense areas of open water in the lake’s basin area. The practice of trolling for walleyes over these vast areas has become increasingly...

The slow death system of catching fish has been a huge success for us walleye anglers these past few years. Righteously so, this tactic catches the snot out of walleyes. Success wise, there is another little tactic that is great...

Slip bobbering is a highly effective technique whenever schools of walleyes are feeding on relatively small areas. I use floats for fishing points, gravel humps and other structure. It’s also a great way to pull walleyes from the edges of...

Where’s the best place to find walleyes in late summer? Wherever the walleyes are feeding – that’s where! In this, the hottest part of the season, a walleye’s metabolism is running as high as it’s going to run all year....

Think for a second about what‰’s going in the walleyes‰ world during the early spring. This is the time when walleye‰s are consumed with the rituals of the spawn. Remember that at any given time during this period, you could...

Fancasting shorelines is a great way to catch reservoir walleyes during the spring, fall and whenever wind and waves create favorable feeding conditions. I cover water quickly by casting a crankbait tight to the bank. This helps me locate fish,...

When it comes to catching walleyes in the earlier part of the season (Spring and early Summer), it’s important to keep in mind that the bait fish the walleyes are feeding this time of year are relatively small. They could...

Did you ever have one of those walleye fishing trips where you just couldn’t find the right pattern to put any fish in the boat? We all have! Well there’s one presentation that doesn’t get much attention by most anglers...

In late winter and into early spring, river walleyes can be tough to catch simply because run-off and spring rains can muddy up the water and make it difficult for the fish to find your presentation. That, coupled with the...

So what’s the best way to catch walleyes on lakes and reservoirs whne they are in that transition period between Spring and Summer? That’s a tough one … the problem being that this time of year can be a time when virtually...

Winter walleye fishing is dominated by jigging methods. There is little doubt that jigging with leadheads, spoons or jigging/swimming style lures is a consistently deadly means of trigger walleye bites on ice. What a lot of walleye anglers don’t realize...

Quick Strike Your Way to More Winter Pike It is no secret; when you’re on the ice, tip-ups are the way to go to get hooked-up, time and time again, from Northern Pike. But, what isn’t well known is that...

The common fishing tip-up is sometimes referred to as a fish trap. This simple set line approach to winter walleye angling has helped anglers catch countless walleye. Not only are tip-ups effective, they are simple to use and anyone serious...

From first ice to mid-winter, it happens faster than one would think on the walleye waters we love to fish throughout the ice-belt. And just as fast, those first ice days when walleyes are strapping on their feed-bags, devouring anything...

Vertical, it is a double-edge sword when it comes to catching through the ice walleyes. On the plus side, we are staying in direct contact with our lure and be spot on the structure we are fishing to fool our...