Category Fishing Tips, Tricks & Educational Blogs

Well, it’s still snowing here in the Keweenaw and we have over 4 feet of ice on the lakes, but I’m having fun in my basement, testing and researching in order to improve next summers’ fishing on Lake Superior. I’ll…

Lately, my line of  work (pun intended and not a bad, “4 letter word” in my line, it’s having fun) in by basement, testing and experimenting with lures and hook weights.  

In preparing for the summer trolling for lake trout on Lake Superior, your tackle needs to be properly prepared. Get the proper sized snaps, bead swivels or bearing swivels to match your lures so that the action isn’t negatively affected.…

The TX-007 Stern Planer, made by Church Tackle is one of the latest additions to my fishing arsenal. See my video here: Brian’s Video of the Stern Planer on YouTube The reason I bought them is to enable me to…

I’m always striving to increase our take of Lake Trout, Steel Head and Coho salmon. (and Small Mouth Bass and Pike too) At the fishing show in Grand Rapids over the weekend, I spent 2 days wandering the floor and…

Since the Spin-n-Glow has been one of my preferred lures for trolling, I wanted to show how I put them together. A video is the best way to demonstrate and explain so I recorded one and put it up on…

A couple years ago, I posted some pictures and text about how we jig for lake trout at Isle Royale and Stannard Rock. (Here is that post) Today I did a video on it to explain the set-up a little…

Here is my lure box, usually called a tackle box, but I use this mainly for storing my trolling spoons, thus I refer to it as my “lure box.” I prefer this set-up over traditional lure storage for several reasons:…

Whenever you take time out to fish you expect your day to be enjoyable and most days spent fishing are fun. Granted, the slowest day of fishing always beats the best day at work (with “work” defined as what some…