By Mike Frisch 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. Opening day success…

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MN-Fish is a new organization developed to give MN anglers a voice. The Non profit group aims to help protect and enhance Minnesota’s fishing opportunities for present and future generations. For more information check out their website in the link below. Website: https://mn-fish.com/

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Why is it that some of the most pleasing fishing you can do 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 fish this…

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Perhaps the single quickest abandoned pattern in a walleye angler’s arsenal is the shallow jig bite, and I plead “guilty” to the above charge.  Anglers that have six boxes with nothing but jigs in them for opener, forget what part of the garage they’re now in collecting dust.  Early in the season, shiners are purchased…

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Team Northland’s Nick Cekalla talks about how plastics have evolved into Walleye Catching Machines! He goes over a few of his favorites in Northland’s Impulse Line up. Shop: https://shop.northlandtackle.com/ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/Northlan… Share this video: https://youtu.be/jPJkKuMeyJg

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    It’s been an odd spring, and for that matter, and even more peculiar winter.  Open water in the southern part of the state has been around for a few weeks, while in the north, there’s still ice, albeit a poor version of it, clinging to memories of a winter that wasn’t.  Early season…

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