Local Splake, Lake Trout and Walleye Plantings
I hope you all are doing well and enjoying the start of our long winter… at least up here in the U.P. it’s pretty long. I had an invite to ice-fish for walleye this week in Mn… Red Lake and…
an exceptional day on the water!
Charters from Lac La Belle, Michigan
an exceptional day on the water!
Charters from Lac La Belle, Michigan
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Taking the Long Way to Charter Boaters Meeting
Tuesday, Oct 21st (see more pictures on my personal FB page and at: My brother, Captain Mitch, his boy, Darren and I set out early, before the birds got up, on Sunday morning from the Houghton County Marina for…
Understanding Sonar
Sonar – The word comes from SOund NAvigation & Ranging. Some call them fish-finders and some just call them depth-finders. Call them what you may, but here I’ll clarify a common misunderstanding about what you see on the screen. What’s…
Skunks? No, but Learning How to Troll With Down-Riggers
Author of university improvement books, Bill, contacted me recently about trolling for Lake Trout. He had never fished on Lake Superior before, so he and his life-long buddy, Phil made the drive from Rhinelander, WI (after flying from Massachusetts) and…
Expecting a Slow Day
Surprise, surprise, surprise! Yesterday, I was running late for my 2 pm charter on Lake Superior with an Amish furniture store owner and his wife from Minoqua, WI. I couldn’t find a deck-hand anywhere in the Keweenaw area… I thought…