August-September-October  2010 Features:

 

Fall Riprap Banks: Fast Food Joints - Ron Kruger

 

 

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Cold Front Blues - Jim Saric

 

Sling-Shot Rig Is Tough To Beat For Hot Walleye Action - Ron Hustvedt, Jr. With Bryan Sathre

 

Take Advantage Of The Crawfish/Crappie Link - Gary Nelson

 

Trolling Tips For Summer ?Eyes - 
Ted Takasaki & Scott Richardson

 

Banging Pilings Could Call Big Bass -  John N. Felsher

 

There?s More To A Fishing Vessel Than Meets The Eye - Mark Martin

 

 

Bull Shoals Has Great Whites - Dan Galusha

 

Go Deep Young Man!  -  Mike Frisch  
Chasing Late Summer Smallies -  Glenn Walker  
 
 
MONTHLY FEATURES: Reader's Tips - Cartoons - David Ford -  Just For Laughs - Collecting Lures - Dan Basore -  Destinations 

 

 

Go Deep Young Man!
By Mike Frisch


Fall is one of the best times of the year to be a walleye angler. The lakes are less crowded, the weather is often pleasant, and most importantly, the fish are on the bite!

 

In fact, fall not only means numbers of fish being brought to the boat, but some of the season?s biggest walleye are often landed now as well.  Finding fall walleye in lakes is often a deepwater affair. The fish often locate along sharp-breaking drop-offs where flats and points plummet into some of the deepest water a lake offers. Fifty-plus foot water depths are not uncommon walleye-holding areas at this time.

Good electronics are important for finding fall walleye, as fish can usually be ?seen? easily in deep water. For that reason, I like to cruise along sharp breaks keeping a close eye on my sonar for the presence of fish that are probably walleye. When located, I save an icon on my GPS and start fishing.

 

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Cold Front Blues
By Jim Saric

?Wonderful,? I said sarcastically, as the cabin screen door was ripped off the front door by the wind. I peeked out the window and the rain/sleet squall was pelleting the window with ice crystals. 

The day before was 75 degrees and warm, and today was just plain ugly. We listened to the marine radio coined the ?bad news box? by one of my close friends and it had nothing but bad news. High winds, scattered rain and sleet with highs in the low 50s were forecasted. It was a classic early fall storm in northern Minnesota. Since we were filming an episode for ?The Musky Hunter? television show, we waited in the cabin for a few hours to see if the squalls would stop or ease-up. Filming in the rain/sleet is really not good for the camera.

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Fall Riprap Banks: Fast Food Joints 
By Ron Kruger


To tell you the truth, September used to be a puzzle to me. Even though one of the first big bass I caught decades ago was from the bank along riprap during the fall, for most

of my boating and guiding years I never even thought to look there when the sumac turned brilliant shades of red.  I kept expecting electronics to point the way to offshore honey holes. I sort of got stuck on the ledges during that period.

The fact is, bass and other gamefish scatter during the stable lake and weather conditions of September. They?re not ganged up on ledges and drops like they were all summer. When lakes begin cooling during fall, fish move to the banks much like they did during spring, but this time they aren?t coming in for hanky-panky?they?re interested in putting on some winter weight. They?re looking primarily for tasty tidbits with fins, and one of the highest concentrations of baitfish can be found along the deeper riprap banks. At this time of year there may be schools 
of shad roaming the open waters, but the minnows of nearly every other species will be hiding amongst shoreline cover, and riprap is one of their preferred shelters.

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Chasing Late Summer Smallies
By Glenn Walker


Many anglers think once July and August roll around, the only bassin? action taking place is for largemouth in the weeds. But in my eyes, some of the most exciting bass fishing an angler can do during these hot days is to go catch smallmouth.

 

To effectively chase these ?brown fish? as many anglers refer to them as, I am going to talk about five lures that will help you catch these fish and also look at key situations that they should be used.Topwater plugs not only allow you to mimic baitfish on the surface, but they also put you in the position to have some fun when a behemoth smallie explodes up through the water to attack your lure. 

 

 

 

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Precise Location: A Must For Icing Great Lakes Trophy ’Eyes - By Mark Martin

Ice fishing the Great Lakes is an experience like no other. The arctic-like tundra shifts 

and shimmies with the wind and water currents, and mounds of ice may pile up before your very eyes on one side of a sheet of ice, while cracks grow to gaps on the other. 

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No, we’re not talking about the saint from Assisi, but the river that flows through the rocky and rugged mountains of Missouri’s southeastern Ozarks, and the secret is the great smallmouth population hiding where few men venture to cast.

umbles and tumbles in ways that would tip over and bust up canoes, even with an experienced paddler in command. It’s not your typical Ozark float stream.

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Perch And ‘Eyes on Ice

By Ted Takasaki and Scott Richardson

Let other anglers spend the winter sitting at home suffering from a bad case of cabin fever. Dave Genz found the cure long ago. 

 

While others watch movies, the father of modern ice fishing watches his GPS and electronic sonar maps as he heads over hard water deciding where to cut holes.

By the time mid-winter has arrived, Genz has moved off smaller lakes, where perch and walleye were main targets earlier in the season. Oxygen depletion eventually takes a toll on the mood of the fish. They become lazy and harder to convince to bite. At the same time, walleye have moved away from shore to offshore structures. Point of fact: bigger lakes simply offer more of those fish-producing targets than smaller lakes do.

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