State Record Shovelnose Released!
I have a good feeling about tonight, I told Karl Hokanson of Coon Rapids and his coworker/fishing buddy, Jason Papenfuss of Minneapolis. See those shad jumping over there? That's the sign we are looking for.
After 4 hours on the water at my secret spot, all we had to show was a little incident...
Channel Cat of Pool 4 Report
John and Tyler of the Red Wing area picked a perfect night to fish Pool 4 of the ol' 'sippi for channel cats and the elusive Shovelnose Sturgeon.
The evening started out slow. We had 5 rods out with cut sucker, shad and a live sucker. Just missing worms and stink bait I guess. After about a ho...
Alligator Gar Report ~ Trinity River TX
With Hurricane Ike messing with our greatly detailed plans, Realtor Ron (the most famous person on Ido that never posted) and I ended up shortening our gar trip with guide Capt. Kirk Kirkland http://www.texasfishingguides.org/kirkland/ by a day. We fished with Kirk this last Monday. With a 10 mp...
Blue Cat Fishing Report - Lake Texoma, TX
Wow! Can a fishing trip turn around!
How was a guy to know that the exact dates of the fishing trip would fall the same day that a hurricane decides to beat up Galveston?
That is exactly what happened to Realtor Ron (the most famous Ido Member that never posted). We flew into Dallas on Thursd...
More Fox River Flatheads
Well better late than never. Got out this past Wednesday evening for some catfish action. My expectations were mixed due to the major cold front and drastic wind change that happend the night before. Typically on the Fox river any wind from south-west actually provided decent current flow for...
Fox River Flatheads - Green Bay
Did a little exploring on a new stretch of the Fox river this weekend and found a nice pod of flatheads. These fish moved up on shallow rock flats with moderate current to feed on the cut bait and live bait we had rigged up. All our fish were released to fight again. The fox river is proba...
Labor Day Weekend Pool 4 Mississippi River
The Favorite Wife, the boys and myself spent Labor Day weekend relaxing at Everts...well, more correctly...in front of a campfire on the beaches of Everts Fishing Resort.
I've been down here a lot this summer either helping Deano out in the bait shop or guiding, but this time was different.
Th...
Mississippi River Pool 8 Channel Cats
Wednesday 8/20/08 was one of the better nights after spending some time around the dam area a few trips before trying to put a pattern together, no double digit fish but my good friends Ed and Tom played tugawar with some bottom diggers The time spent looking for fish paid off and made for some...
Pool 8, Mississippi River multi-species report.
After numerous PMs and a few phone calls, I finally had a chance to hook up with Pool 8 "Guru", Bret Clark yesterday.
Making the 2 hour run north on hwy. 35 I couldn't help but notice the massive thunder heads building to the west, putting our night of drifting for cats in jeopardy! ...
Mississippi River P 4 Flathead Catfishing Report
It's no secret that with this years cool spring and high water, the pre spawn cat fishing was delayed. But what is not so good for targeting one fish is great for others.
The walleye guides and fishermen I talk to at Everts Fishing Resort, Dustin Stewart, Greg Vandamark and others have all been...
Tri County Canal Nebraska Flathead Catfish Report
A short report this time around, but my buddy Big Mike and I went out Wednesday night for some possible flathead action. Weather wasn't bad, water looked good, so off we went. Turned out we lost a few baits, just couldn't get the hook set, and we even lost one hook off 120lb test line. Sure woul...
Upper Mississippi River Minnesota Flathead Report
In-Depth Outdoors member Mark Steffes breaks the slow start to the Upper Mississippi Flathead guiding season with a 50 pound flathead! But there's more!!
I met Mark at Everts Resort and as promised he paid me up front. Well, his two daughters Christine and Ashley paid me with their award winni...
Prespawn Flatheads on the Minnesota River 5-25-08
Its that time of year again, lilacs are blooming the mosquito's are out and the frogs are chirping. All true signs of summer that correlate with the hot prespawn bite of the Flathead Catfish.
The Flathead is one of the largest game fish next to the Sturgeon, they can grow to a size in excess of...
Minnesota River Channel Cat Report 5/9/08
Spring has been along time in coming.
Fishing Mate, Shamu and I decided to see if we could find some catfish action on the Minnesota River for Channels. We had been hearing rumors that the fish might be biting if you could find a spot with slow enough current.
The water level is way up with...
Mississippi River Pool 1 Catfish
It was a chilly afternoon, the wind was blowing at a steady pace from the southeast, the clouds looked like they could add some rain to the already chilly temps of 40 degrees, it didn't make a difference, it was time to go fishing! I was joined by MNfishHUNT(Mike) for a couple hours this aft...
