Ontario Walleye & Pike
Last week, a good friend booked a corporate retreat for his colleagues and associated vendors. During their stay, he and I served as guides for the rest of the group. As you can imagine, we had a little healthy prodding going on between both of us revolving around who could put the group on th...
Mississippi River Pike Report 7/20/09
Another cold front moves through the La Crosse area making for a tough time putting together a pattern for camera shy fish. Jeff Jensen made the trip up from the south and every time he does well, he brings either gusting winds, thunder storms, cold fronts or, all of the above We both knew it w...
Mississippi Pool 8 Pike Action 7/2/09
Thursday 7/2/09 the 25hp Merc was fired up and pushing the 14footer on its way to Gator country. The driver was red eyed and yawning from the lack of sleep the night before, different plans kept running through my head making sleep impossible. It still feels good to get all excited like a teen t...
Pasha Lake, Ontario Canada May 2009
After what I believe to be one of the most breath taking drives I've ever been on, my wife, father in law, and I arrived at Pasha Lake Cabins on Sunday May 10th. We were able to take advantage of Chad's offer for a free cabin, and within a couple of hours of our arrival had found the fish. We st...
Ontario Pike - 5.12.09
We headed out again today in search of Monster Pike and weren’t disappointed! Again, we were able to target the big females as they are in recovery mode, post spawn. The big fish weren’t as concentrated today, however a couple of variables might have played into today’s bite. We are in the...
Ontario Ice Out Pike
The post ice, or should I say, receding ice Pike season is off to an AWESOME start!We found these monsters yesterday hold up in a shallow bay in super clear water. Water temps were in the 48 – 50 degree range with the pike becoming more active as the day wore on. Both trolling and casting work...
Rainy Lake, Minnesota fishing report
When fishing Trophy waters such as the Mighty Rainy Lake it is very easy to stay focused. Whether we're chasing Big pike, walleyes, smallies, or Crappies Rainy lake offers anglers a fair chance at a Personal Best fish during every excursion on the water. Those that target the biggest and the ba...
Door County Walleye's and Pike
Fishing the east shore (Door County)now the past 10 days and the bite has been fantastic. Fish are still spawning and finishing up the spawn. So plenty of big girls hanging around the shallows to be caught. Trolling is yielding most big fish although casting in spots with stick baits and jigs ...
Brainerd Lakes Ice Pike and Bass Report, Jan 16-18
One of my favorite trips every year is a reunion of college and grad school friends in the Brainerd Lakes area. Since the mid-1990s, we have gathered on the shores of the Whitefish Chain to pursue pike and bass with tip-ups. We target some of the smaller, less heavily traveled areas of the chain...
Pool 10, Mississippi river Pike
After a long, hot and humid work week I packed up my two boys and made the short trip north to our camper on lower pool 10. Reports were coming in from family that the Pike were on a tear with the above 80 degree water temps. Yes! One of my absolute favorite times of the open water season! U...
Pre-Spawn Bruiser Pike on Rainy Lake
If you consider catching a trophy fish during your fishing trip "Up North" a high priority then imagine catching trophy fish literally one after another. Well that is just what James and I finished doing here on the MIGHTY Rainy Lake! 9 jacks 10lbs or greater in the first 4 hours on t...
Roy Lake SD 2/17/08
This week my travels to took me to Roy Lake Resort & Lodge on beautiful Roy Lake in the Northeast corner of South Dakota. Our target species this weekend was Pike and once again, SD did not dissapoint. I was joined by a group of guys who were looking for a lot of pike action with the chanc...
Roy Lake 1.9.08
Some people are having a little trouble finding fish. Actually fishing is doing well, but you must be welling to move around. Perch are biting, as well as Northern and walleye as you can see by the pictures. These pictures were caught the last couple of weeks with some caught today......like t...
Ultimate Panfish Leaque Miss. River Backwaters
Saturday December 29th was the day of the Ultimate Panfish Leaques Rochester division event on the Mississippi River Backwaters on Pool 4 in an area called the Finger Lakes. These backwater lakes are located between Wabasha and Kellogg Minnesota. The spieces fished for are panfish, namely bluegi...
La Crosse Area Ice Report 12/16/07
What a difference there can be from one day to the next, yesterday was steady and today was tough. A group of us hit an area which is made up of some sand flats with 8fow that drop off into 12fow. The targets for the day were Pike, Eyes, and Crappies. A spiking barometer had the Crappies hitting...
