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Entries for 'NAFC Social Media Editor'
By: Bob Jensen, courtesy The Fishing Wire
- Aug 02
Fish in the summertime can be a finicky bunch. Some days they want a crankbait moved quickly halfway between the surface and the bottom, other days they want a jig tipped with soft bait bounced aggressively right on the bottom. And then there are the days when they want something worked very slowly, and they want the bait right in their face. The only effort they want to expend on those days is to open their mouth and inhale a minnow or leech or nightcrawler. There are times when live bait will help you catch more fish. But, if you want to catch fish on those days when the bass, walleyes, panfish or pike are being super-selective, you need to use lively live bait. Here are some things you can do to make your live bait livelier.
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By: Steve Pennaz
- Jun 20
I recently fished a 300-acre lake I’d been on once before more than 10 years ago. In other words, I knew virtually nothing about it.
My fishing partner for the day was Greg Huff. He oversees the NAFC’s Facebook page (www.Facebook/fishingclub), so when he suggested we solicit input from NAFC's Faceb...
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- Mar 16
I spoke to my father-in-law over the weekend. He and his bride of 50-plus years are wintering on the Texas Gulf Coast, like they have for the past several years. And he and I share fishing reports on a weekly basis, much like Hank Jr's buddy from New York in a "Country Boy Can Survive" would s...
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- Mar 11
Know up front that the headline above was stolen from an article by Byron Scott with the same title that appeared in the February 1956 edition of Outdoor Life. Despite its age, I am fascinated by the piece.
Did you know that media around Possum Kingdom Lake in Texas (roughly 70 miles west of...
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- Mar 04
The 2006 Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) included a provision establishing a federal registry of saltwater anglers in order to improve recreational saltwater fishing data collection.
The registry’s predecessor, the Marine Recreational Fish...
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- Mar 01
I stopped Kurt Beckstrom in the hallway the other day and uttered a single word as a question: “Color?.” Kurt looked me in the eye before answering: “There are other things to get right first.” Then the editor of North American Fisherman magazine disappeared into his office.
His comment caught...
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- Feb 25
Can something you can’t see help you catch more fish? An emerging trend in the fishing market is the growing popularity of lures that reflect ultraviolet light.
And you thought color selection was tough before!
UV light is outside the visible range for humans; however, there is evidence that...
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- Feb 18
For the past 15 years the state of Minnesota has been conducting a study on 23 lakes in the state to see if special regulations designed to protect some northern pike from harvest would help maintain or even increase the number of large northern pike in those waters.
Due to their aggressive na...
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- Feb 11
In my blog last week I highlighted a study conducted by the Illinois Natural History Survey that found some bass are genetically predisposed to biting while others are impossible to catch. In the study, which lasted nearly two decades, biologists found after three generations of selective breedi...
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- Feb 04
When you fish with a biologist like Dr. Hal Schramm, terms like “heritable” and “fecundity” tend to creep into the conversation. And that’s okay because he usually follows it up with an explanation using language I understand.
Fecundity is a fancy term used to describe fertility…the quality or...
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