Your 1000-acre local lake fishes just fine with a 16-foot johnboat, a 25-hp motor, 12V tiller electric, and a 5” sonar. Take this rig too far out into Green Bay, across Mille Lacs, or for a 50-mile...
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Attention to Detail! For your Next Ice Bite!
It must be our competitive nature. Something about a line showing up on a Lowrance screen, then disappearing, triggers us to focus on presentation details like no other time of the year. In the...
Increase Your Success During Late Ice
Increase Your Success During Late Ice Four Late-Winter Tips for Catching More Panfish Seek, Drill and Stay Mobile for Late Ice Crappies. In smaller, shallower lakes, crappies are typically...
Covering the Basin for Icing Walleyes
Anticipation would be a great word to describe what every ice fisherman is feeling this time of year! Chances are the walleyes still have their fall feed bag on, which means they will be fairly...
New Honey Holes on Old Favorites
We've all had those moments while fishing where we simply can't believe what just happened. Maybe it was watching a larger fish latch onto a smaller fish that you were reeling in or the time you put...
Retailers hooked on Sault inventor’s ice fishing device
After years spent developing his ice fishing device The Trigger, Brendan Syrette was browsing the aisles at Canadian Tire one day when he came face to face with his own product. For the...
Going with the Flow
If you just got done packing away hunting gear and are pacing around the house constantly checking the long-range forecast, chances are you are an "early ice" fisherman. You know that this is a...
The Little White Jig
Your wife or girlfriend probably owns at least a couple little black dresses. It’s a garment that fits almost any occasion, at any time of year. Looking at lures for anyplace or anytime, a white,...
The Bonus Features Of Trolling Boards
Right from ice-out, inline planer boards are a multi-use, multi-species trolling tool I usually don’t fish without. They do a lot more than just spread lures away from water disturbed by the boat’s...
Climate Control: 3 Reasons To Buy A Portable Ice Shelter For Next Winter.
For generations, icefishermen had two choices. Fish outside and hope for decent weather or, build a heavy, permanent shack and plunk it down on a good spot for the season. Today’s portable shelters...
A Walleye’s Worst Nightmare
Many times over the years we have been asked, “What makes you guys so successful at catching walleyes?” These days we like to smile, point out the graying hair and say something like “Experience …....
The Best Ultralight Fishing Rod
If you enjoy fishing with ultralight light gear you are well aware of the fact that your rod is one of the most pieces of gear that there is. I mean sure, your reel is also important but your rod is...
Titanium Spring Bobber
STETHOSCOPE-SENSITIVE TITANIUM SPRING BOBBER TICKLES JIGS, TRANSMITS ‘TICKS’ Jackson, Wis. – As you’re reading this sentence, 17,482 sunfish have inhaled the lures of countless, clueless anglers...
Frabill Engineers the First “Intelligent” Tip-Up
The Calibrator removes guesswork, adds precision to the art of setting traps on ice Jackson, Wis. – A wise man once said, “Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.” Surely such a...
3 Killer Trout Lures That Will Help You Catch More Trout
If you fish for trout with spinning gear you will no doubt come across situations where a fishing lure will be the best bait to use to use and using the right fishing lure can be the difference...
“Uncompromising”…Otter ice fishing shelters
Roto-molding. It’s a time consuming process. But then again so is aging an Arturo Fuentes Opus X or cask of Jameson 15-year pot-stilled Irish whiskey. In ice fishing shelters and sleds, good things...
Rippin Lips Keep Kool
The Ultimate Freshwater and Saltwater Bait Box Rippin Lips Keep Kool provides “climate controlled” comfort that keeps bait fresh Chambersburg, PA – To escape summer’s heat, it’s nice to bask in the...
Marcum ShowDown Troller 2.0
A delightfully diminutive departure from traditional ice fishing sonar, category leader MarCum Technologies ventured forth last winter with a major concept within a micro package. ShowDown Troller...
New Lund 1650 Rebel XL
Take note of a frequent-flyer ‘exit row’ occupant settling into the seat of an airliner boasting a few extra inches of leg room, and you’ll immediately sense their appreciation of the added space –...
Koppers Fishing Wins Top Honours!
KOPPERS FISHING WINS FOR 3RD CONSECUTIVE YEAR AT WORLD’S LARGEST SPORTFISHING TRADESHOW Niagara-based company recognized for Best New Hard Bait Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON – Success comes in three’s for...