Mississippi River Cats Sturgeon and Paddle Fish
What a beautiful weekend to end the official end of summer and to kick off the 2009 Fall Fishing Season!Evening and night fishing was cool with a bit of moisture/fog but certainly better than rain and wind.Our fishing started Thursday with a trip on Pool 4 with Ms Trumar and Trumar from Ido. The...
Minnesota River Late August Catfishing
The catfish spawn has been winding down over the last few weeks and the bite seems to be steadily improving. Water levels are at the normal late summer levels on the Minnesota River even with the recent rains this month. Water temps are in the low 70's and that seems to have the Cats fairly ac...
Mississippi River Pool 4 Channel Cats and Sturgeon
With all the rain we've been having, the flow of the river has more than doubled since last weekend. What does this mean to the fisher person? C-H-A-N-G-E! With more water coming down river, the fishing spots that were good last week are empty today. Fish, like people want to eat without spendin...
Mississippi River Pool 8 Channel Cats
After being heckled and down right called out a “Sally” by none other than the Cat king himself, BrianK, for targeting Bass, it was time for me to man up and get some Cat boogers wrapped up on some 10# Trilene mono leaders. Either that or, there has been a couple friends at work wanting to get o...
Lake McConaughy, Nebraska catfishing report
Lake McConaughy may be tough for walleyes right now, but if you want catfish, it's the place to be! My friend Jim Mosely, who I fished the King Kat tourny with a few years ago at Milford Res in Kansas, called and needed a partner for the Central Nebraska Cat tournament this past weekend at Lake ...
Upper Mississippi River Flathead Fishing Report
What a change from just a few nights ago! The ride home at night (or in the early morning for all of you daylight fisher people) has been what we live for! Mid 60 temps for lows are a fantastic relief from the mid 40's we've been having. Of course with the rising temps comes the "chance of a thu...
Fox River ---Catfish Channels and flatheads
Fished this past week on the fox river and the fishing was incredible for channels! We literally caught 50-60 channels mixed in with 5-6 flatheads in 8 hours of fishing. This was after a cold front as well. In my opinion the fox river system is the most underrated catfish fishery in the midwe...
One Flathead out of Five ~ Catfishing In Minnesota
I'm going to say it...It's trophy cat fishing time in Minnesota and Wisconsin!!The bite came late, or for you daytime fishers...early in the morning. I was getting a little worried as the clock approached midnight, that my guests Saturday night wouldn't see a flathead. Each night out for the las...
More Mississippi Pool 3 Catfish personal bests!!!
I never thought I would have such a hard time getting someone to jump in the boat to chase monster flatheads! In the last two weeks I have been present at 4 guys personal best flathead excursions. Last night a certain bass fisherman who shall remain nameless bailed on me at the last minute...and...
Mississippi River Pool 3 Personal Best Cat!!!!
This Memorial Weekend will be memorable for Mike Jensen of Hastings. We talked Mike into going out on Pool 3 Sunday night to chase around some of the large cats some have been encountering on Pools 2 through 4 recently. Fresh off my trip with my son Ben where he caught a 46 pounder as his first ...
Minnesota River Flathead Catfish Memorial Weekend
Memorial weekend marks the prime time for the start of the Minnesota River Flathead Catfish bite. Water temps finally hit the mark of low to mid 60's triggering the Cats to start feeding. Having recently come out of there slumber they are on the move looking for food to in preparation for their spa...
Pool 3 Channel Cat Fishing Report 5/24/09
We were just set up and I was explaining how to hook a channel using the Team Catfish Double Action Hood to my brother-in-law Rick Nelson of Forrest Lake and Father-in-law Floyd Carbert of Circle Pines, when the rod doubled over in the holder! Fish On Floyd! I move out of his way to give him som...
Mississippi Monster Flatheads with Brian K!
Earlier this year I took BK out walleye fishing for a few hours and tonight he asked if he could return the favor by taking my son Ben Tuckner and I out in search of Ben's first flathead. Well return the favor he did indeed! It is going to take Ben a few days to wipe the smile off his face! Ben ...
Minnesota River Early Season Channel Catfish
I had made mention in an early post in the Minnesota River forum that it was "time to get serious". The early season Channel Catfish bite is starting up. I had the pleasure of getting out with my fishing buddy Shamu to fish the Minnesota River last night, we thought the kitties might be ready ...
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...
