Fishing Tips

Because circle hooks help to significantly increase fish survival rates when practicing catch and release, they have been incorporated into live bait regulations for many states. The difference between a circle hook and a J-hook is that the circle...

Madison’s Lake Mendota has always been a good lake for yellow perch. If one goes back to the 1960s and 1970s, Lake Mendota was considered one of the premier perch lakes in the Midwest. It wasn’t like North Dakota’s...

This summer, I’ve spent a lot of time fishing in my NuCanoe Frontier, and a reoccurring theme I keep running into is how to secure my ‘yak to the river bottom. Anchors are nice, I have a 7lb. big box...

Goose Island My plans to go fishing changed after a tugboat accident on the Mississippi. So, my family and I found ourselves trying to find an accessible place to fish, and ended up on Goose Island in La Crosse County....

Anglers across the Midwest hit the dog days of summer, where fish tuck into the weeds and become nearly impossible to catch. One of my favorite summer pass times is a game I call Frogger - no, not the...