If you are a walleye angler like me, the opening day of Minnesota’s gamefish season, aka “the walleye opener,” is one of the year’s most-anticipated days!  With that day just about here, having a good opening day/early season plan can mean the difference between spring fishing success and frustration.  Here are some tips on…

Why is it that some of the most pleasing fishing, in June bass fishing,  is also some of the simplest? I’m not stepping on bass anglers with that comment either, but chuckin’ baits up near shore and dragging them back right now will get you bit on most of the weed-choked shallow systems that I…

Perhaps the single quickest abandoned pattern in a walleye angler’s arsenal is jigging shallow, and I plead “guilty” to the above charge.  Anglers that have six boxes with nothing but jigs in them for the opener, forget what part of the garage they’re now in collecting dust.  Early in the season, shiners are purchased not…