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Entries for June 2010

Shellcracker Feeding Mechanics

Posted in: Panfish Fishing

Slight differences in sunfish mouth configurations represent huge differences in feeding behaviors.

Lipless Crankbait Refinements

Posted in: Fishing Tactics

When grading cast-n-crank lures, lipless crankbaits score high, producing bass bites with little input from the angler on the other end of the line.

River Walleyes Like the Swing

Posted in: Fishing Tactics

River walleyes – and often the biggest ones a system has to offer – frequently prefer the subtle swing and swagger of a suspending jerkbait.

Jigging Up Great Lakes Salmon

Posted in: Fishing Tactics

It was mid-August and hot when I met Eric Haataja at the boat ramp in downtown Milwaukee. A stiff wind was blowing from the west; the same wind the area had enjoyed for over a week.

Fine-Tune Flippin’

Posted in: Fishing Tactics

When you stand shoulder-to-shoulder with another angler, flipping the same baits to the same cover, in what seems to be the same way, yet that guy consistently catches four fish to your one—it’s no coincidence.

Bull Run

Posted in: Panfish Fishing

Bluegills often get the Rodney Dangerfield treatment: being abundant and readily catchable with relatively simple tactics, they get little respect.

 

 

 

 
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