Reports

What a crazy year! Between starting a new job and buying a house, my trips on the water have been few and far between. I went from fishing a few days every week to maybe once every few weeks! Fortunately, things are settling down and I hope to be back out fishing with some amount [...]

Sunday, April 11th officially kicked off the 2010 crappie season for me this year. Up until today, this year’s fishing time has been very limited and it felt good to spend some quality time on the water. After fishing yesterdays Full Throttle tournament on the river, I decided for a change in pace and day [...]

When I think Pool-2 of the Mississippi River I think big walleyes and low boat traffic, not slab crappies. While our walleye bite this morning yielded good numbers of fish, size wasn’t quite what we were looking for. With that, our focus shifted from big walleyes to anything that would bite, which just happened to [...]

Today was advisement day here at UW-Stout meaning classes are cancelled and meetings are held. I however was excused from these meetings as I’ll be finishing up school in December, so no advising was needed. With a full day off, it didn’t take much thinking to determine a trip to Pool-2 was in order. Since [...]

Not having been out on Lake Menomin for over a week, I wasn’t sure how far along the bite was. My last trip out was a complete flop and the motivation today was simply this beautiful weather. As we all know, weather wise, it’s been a weird year and has made for a very unpredictable [...]