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MARCH
2010
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Leadcore Trolling Techniques - Ted Takasaki & Scott
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When It Comes To Catching?Persistence Pays - Mark Martin |
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Spring Trolling Solutions - Jim Saric |
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Sometimes, Anglers Need To Go Hunting - John N. Felsher |
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Warming Water=Colossal Crappie - Gary Nelson |
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The Go-To Live Bait For Walleye Throughout The Seasons - Steve
Mattson |
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Uncovering Fish-Holding Humps - Justin Hoffman |
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Shallow Slabs Spring Crappie Can Be Pushovers, But You Need To
Find Them First - Tony J. Peterson |
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MONTHLY FEATURES: Reader's Tips - Cartoons - David Ford - Just For Laughs - Collecting Lures - Dan Basore - Destinations |
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Shallow
Slabs
Spring
Crappie Can Be Pushovers, But You Need To Find
Them First
By
Tony J. Peterson
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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
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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
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The
Go-To Live Bait for Walleye, Throughout the
Seasons
By
Steve Mattson
Early
Season
Nothing
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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.
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Warming
Water - Colossal Crappie
By
Gary Nelson
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You
toss a yellow-green 1/16-ounce jig towards the
shore. The lure lands on top |
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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!
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Precise Location:
A Must For Icing Great Lakes Trophy ’Eyes - By Mark
Martin |
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Ice fishing the Great
Lakes is an experience like no other. The arctic-like
tundra shifts |
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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
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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
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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. |
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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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