One of the main ingredients to finding and catching big summer walleyes is quite often found along a change in depth or drop off (a.k.a. break line). Breaks can help concentrate fish, like where shallow water flat drops into deep, op along the top or bottom edge of a big main lake hump, or even the bottom edge of a deep weedline can all be considered break lines. Break lines can concentrate fish, and concentrations are exactly what you're looking for just about 100 percent of the time. click here to Catch Break Line Eyes!!.

Learning to fish a new lake can be a time consuming and daunting task. If you could spend as much time on the water as you wanted to, the task would become that much easier; but for most folks that's just not a practical option. With the technology available today there are some short cuts that will make learning a new lake faster and easier. This article will give you some insight and ideas that can help you figure out a new lake a little quicker. click here for Tips on a New Lake!!.

Let me set the stage for you. It's mid-summer, the temperatures have been in the low 80's, its calm and quiet. The sun is just breaking on the eastern sky. The air is so heavy that the smell of your partner's fresh cup of coffee just hangs in it. The lake's surface looks like glass. click here to Buzz Bait for Bass!!.

"In places where we used to throw spinnerbaits, we're now swimming a Slurpies Rock-R Minnow swimbait with mind-boggling results," stated Team Northland tournament ace Jeff Gustafson. "Especially in tournaments, we're catching a lot of really big bass." click here for Swim Bait tips on Bass!.

Who among us, as a kid, didn't love the sight of a bobber slowly going down? Who among us still doesn't enjoy that sight? For many of us, our first memories of fishing are of bluegills taking our earthworm dangling under a bobber. June in Minnesota signifies the beginning of summer, and of bluegills moving onto the beds in their annual ritual of proliferation. Most of us live very close to waters that abound with bluegills. The bedding period of June is a great opportunity to find bluegills shallow and aggressive. It is also the time to catch some of the biggest bluegills in the lake, anytime of the day. With a few simple strategies, the opportunity is yours to re-kindle fond childhood memories, or make some new ones for your kids. click here Bedding Bluegill tips!.

By midsummer the bass action can really heat up and productive patterns start to emerge that can be easily taken advantage of. Quite often one of the hottest patterns going is working the deep growing weeds with the right crank bait. Wherever you find healthy grass weeds you'll probably find bass. The greenery can hold plenty of preferred forage all season long, and is the main reason bass can be found hanging out in and around all of that vegetation. The challenge is to putting together a presentation that is appealing enough to\ get their attention, and is where the right crankbait in the right place can really produce. click here to Catch Summer Bass!.

For trophy panfish sleuths today, it's all about staying two steps ahead of the pack; going where crowds of anglers haven't been for a while. Sometimes, it's a simple matter of circling back to lakes that were hot several seasons back. But from a broader perspective, the game has changed. Most of the smaller, more obvious lakes have been plucked of their panfish gems. Sad but true. click here for Huge Panfish!.

Have you ever been on the water and the fishing for you and your partners had been anything but productive? Yet every time you looked around you could see the constant action the other boats around you were having. So you start to thinking, what are we doing wrong, I can see that most are using a jig and a minnow and drifting at the same speed we are, so what's up? Well chances are your boat control isn't quite what it should be. Walleye fishing can so many times be a game of a few yards or feet that can make the difference. click here to Maximize Boat Control for Eyes!.

The early summer walleye menu hast a little of everything; shallow fish, deep fish, rock fish, and weed fish. Walleyes and weeds, weeds and walleyes. There's something about that combination that just doesn't sound right, or even natural. Walleyes and rocks on the other hand, makes more sense and sounds a lot better. Or does it? In many cases weeds and walleyes are a natural, and can make perfect sense, especially when you consider the options. click here to Catch Walleyes in The Weeds!.

Long lines for early season walleyes can mean a couple of things. If you are talking about opening day, it can mean waiting in long lines at the boat ramp to launch your boat. We all have experienced the frustrations of opening day at the boat ramp, but that is another story. In this article, I am going to discuss a walleye-fishing strategy that works on opening day and beyond. Opening weekend for walleyes in the spring often brings less-than-pleasant weather. click here for Shallow Early Season Walleyes!.

Spinners are incredible tools for catching walleyes and this presentation in some form offers the angler a surprising amount of versatility. For many anglers, spinner harnesses are used in conjunction with bottom bouncers. This presentation is extremely versatile and effective but bottom bouncers aren't the only method for presenting spinners. From open water trolling on the Great Lakes to precise tight quarter tactics that probe weed edges on small natural lakes… spinners should be an important tool for walleye anglers to consider at some point each season. click here for Early Season Walleyes!!.

Have you ever wondered why chasing late ice panfish is so popular? I think it's the nature of the bite that makes it so popular. After a long winter of dealing with panfish that are just lookers, teasers, sniffers or nibblers it's fun to fish for something that is willing to slam a bait with wild abandonment. Also, there is a lot to be said for sitting on the ice when the temperatures are in the high 30's to low 40's. click here to Read about Late Season Ice Panfish!!.

Late winter is the perfect time for chasing jumbo perch. By then the walleye fishing can slow down, (maybe way down) so why not keep a good thing going and make a switch to a fish that keeps on biting, and biting. It's not that big eye poppin' perch suddenly turn on and go on a mad rampage as there are some good catches made all season long. It's just that by late ice they're more likely to be bunched up and the odds of finding at least a few that are in the right mood greatly increases. click here to Read about Ice Fishing Perch!.

Swimming baits can be the big ticket to solid early season catches and are always a good option for icing heavy duty walleyes. Some may argue "the always" point but when given a fair chance I've yet to find water where they don't produce. click here to Read about Early Ice Walleyes!.

More ice anglers are discovering that the tip of the rod we are using has as much influence on our presentation as the actual motion we put on the rod while fishing. A rod with a fast tip for example will give the lure a distinct flash and pound that is more abrupt, perhaps more noticeable. By quivering or bouncing the tip of a fast action rod, the jig or lure literally bounces in place which can be the ticket some days, especially with aggressive fish. This bouncing might also work better for pulling in fish from further distances. click here and Catch some Panfish!!.

We have all had those times when you can't seem to buy a bite out on the water, whether it be through the ice or in a boat. One technique that I have come to rely on for panfish in these situations is the Dropshot Rig. The Dropshot Rig has been popularized by professional bass fishing in recent years, though few fishermen use it for any other species. The same principles that make it work for heavily pressured, tight lipped bass work equally well for other species, especially panfish through the ice. The reason a dropshot works is that it allows an angler to present a small bait in front of a fish for a long period of time. We used a dropshot rig at the NAIFC Chisago Lake Qualifier last season to pick up fish in holes that had already been fished by other anglers; in fact most of our largest fish came on a dropshot out of holes someone else had just vacated. click here for panfish dropshot tips!!!.

In between trips to North Dakota for ducks, South Dakota and SW Minnesota for pheasants, and northern Minnesota for grouse, there's some really good walleye fishing to be had. The tough part is giving up one for the other and has been made even more difficult with pheasant numbers up and grouse up in certain areas. Even so; you might find the tradeoff to be worthwhile, especially when you start hooking up with chunky late season 'eyes. click here to Read about Fall Walleyes!.

Made it out to pool 4 on Sunday and hooked up with this 13 pound monster on the first cast. Shatters my previous personal best of 10 pounds. She was the fattest walleye I have ever seen. 29.5 inches long with a girth that looked like she swallowed 2 basketballs. Ended up being the only bite for our boat, but it was worth it! She's still swimming to release those eggs! Mississippi River Walleyes for more fishing info click here.