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MARCH 2010 Features:
	Leadcore Trolling Techniques - Ted Takasaki & Scott Richardson	Subscribe NOW!
	When It Comes To Catching?Persistence Pays - Mark Martin
	Spring Trolling Solutions - Jim Saric
	Sometimes, Anglers Need To Go Hunting - John N. Felsher
	Warming Water=Colossal Crappie - Gary Nelson
	The Go-To Live Bait For Walleye Throughout The Seasons - Steve Mattson
	Uncovering Fish-Holding Humps - Justin Hoffman
	Shallow Slabs Spring Crappie Can Be Pushovers, But You Need To Find Them First - Tony J. Peterson

MONTHLY FEATURES: Reader's Tips - Cartoons - David Ford -  Just For Laughs - Collecting Lures - Dan Basore -  Destinations

Shallow Slabs

Spring Crappie Can Be Pushovers, But You Need To Find Them First

By Tony J. Peterson

It seems simple enough. After ice-out, the shallowest bays and flats will warm up quickly, drawing in legions of crappie. Those fish will then stack up in a foot of water, eagerly dining on minnows and insects while they wait to spawn. All an eager angler needs to do is find the shallow water and get ready for some tight-line action. If this were true, there wouldn?t be an eater-sized crappie left in a lot of the popular lakes in the Midwest. The truth is, crappie do embark on a mass exodus to shallow areas to feed and eventually spawn, but it?s not as simple as it sounds. Still, savvy anglers can learn what to look for and how to fish them to capitalize every spring.

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Uncovering Fish-Holding Humps

By Justin Hoffman

Out from shore, and hidden from the naked eye, lies a fish-holding factory that is jam-packed with fins and gills from any and all

species. Here they bask, undisturbed for the most part, until an intuitive angler finally uncovers them and proceeds to enjoy the fruits of their labor. For those willing to put in the legwork for finding these out-of-the-way spots, the fishing can be non-stop and action packed. Best of all, these fish zones are almost always crowd-free.

Fishing offshore humps is a proven tactic that can yield big results. Understanding what a hump is and why they hold fish is the first step in the learning curve. And once armed with that knowledge, locating them and knowing what to toss is all that?s needed to dial in this promising technique.

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		The Go-To Live Bait for Walleye, Throughout the Seasons By Steve Mattson Early Season Nothing packs the punch and
gets an angler fired up for fishing like the walleye opener. It?s big business and a big deal for many bait stores. But even before that celebration begins, many anglers avoid the covered lakes in search of moving water. Anglers flock to bigger rivers in the spring to dust off the cobwebs and try to hook up with walleye in open water. The dominant and most preferred presentation is the timeless jig and minnow. -read more-

	Warming Water - Colossal Crappie By Gary Nelson
	You toss a yellow-green 1/16-ounce jig towards the shore. The lure lands on top

of the dry part of a half-submerged ?lay-down? log. You hop the jig off the log and it falls gently into the four-foot-deep water. Nothing hits after you?ve slow-retrieved it 10 feet. Suddenly, when the jig passes by the deep end of the log, you feel a tap at the line?s end. Not easily, you work in a head-shaking fish. You finally grab the lower lip of a black crappie, one of about two pounds! -read more-

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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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