Archive for the ‘Fishing Gear’ Category

What’s the minimum length?

Here’s a hot tip for multi-species action – if you’re bored with bass, weary from walleye or too pretty for perch, check out Lake Ida near Alexandria, Minnesota. While fishing there over the July 4th holiday weekend, Beth Krohn hooked into something that just didn’t feel right. Turned out it was a prosthetic leg. Might’ve [...]

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Shimano’s New Line Up Of Rods

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Questions (and a few answers) from All-Star Week

When was the last time that KVD, Jeff Kriet, Steve Kennedy, Davy Hite finished in the bottom four of ANYTHING, let alone a fishing tournament? Number of former AOYs left in the running for the All-Star title? Four – Ike, Skeet, Gerald and Aaron. That sounds kind of like a boy band. Speaking of anglers [...]

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Who Doesn’t Love Spooning?

Asking me to name my favorite lure is kind of like asking Mr. Mercer to identify his favorite Subway sandwich – you just can’t do it because they all have their own special time and place. But if you ask me to name my least understood lure category it would have to be the dreaded [...]

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Waiting Sucks

Remember the old Heinz commercials which used the theme of “ANTICIPATION” to describe why their ketchup was so good? That might’ve flown in 1979, or whenever those pieces debuted, but it’s 2011 now. We’re all about ADHD now – a  population that lives for immediate gratification, wants everything done yesterday and will complain vociferously if [...]

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