The First Look is the Best Look! When fishing our ‘hole set’ lines, we are on high alert at the initial drop. If we are over fish, the most active ones are going come to the lure quickly and often times bite right away. By being prepared and ready, often times we can pick off 2 or 3 easy ones…
Hardwater Transition Within the Day As the Early Ice Shallow Water Walleye bite wanes in the mid morning hours we switch gears. The mid morning and early afternoon are Perch Search time. On the early Ice, like walleyes, we find a lot of our perch in shallower as compared to later in the year and often on some type of…
Contours and Hole Sets If drilling in the trees is not up your alley, the Big Devil has many different opportunities for you. Humps and drop offs and flat basins. A GPS with Devils Lake chip will assist you in targeting these areas. I would be lost and flying blind without my GPS unit with Lake Chip. In future postings…
Devil’s Lake HARDWATER 101 Part 1: Devil’s Lake Ice Fishing trends: There are so many opportunities on Devil’s Lake for the Hard Water Fishermen that even for those of us who live here, it is hard to get it all in over the course of the Hard Water season. They range from shallow water Walleye and Pike action in the…
New Location for One of This Weeks Troll Lines May Surprise Some, Thrill Others Fishing A pleasantly surprising and beneficial development opened up for us this last week. Boy, oh boy, was it the right decision to explore this possibility. Within 30 seconds of dropping the spinners down the fish were on it. Two releases and a limit of fat…
