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It’s simple math really: Zero eggs equals zero fish for future stocking programs.
So, the spring walleye and steelhead egg collections by the Michigan DNR are critical components of the strategy for maintaining world-class fishing opportunities in the Great Lakes State.
Nearly fifty years have now passed since the first paddletail swimbaits splashed down in U.S. waters, the earliest designs having likely originated in France. Today, paddletails have almost singlehandedly rewritten the rules of soft plastics engagement. Fans of catching bass, crappie, walleye and inshore slams nearly always cast these ingenious tail-driven baits, each version capable of different retrieve speeds, actions and the almighty thump.
New Gear
Gamakatsu has announced a proprietary new finish for their most popular hook styles.
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By Louie Stout
Indiana biologist Jed Pearson tags a young walleye for a Webster Lake stocking.You cant blame district fisheries biologist Jed Pearson for being excited when we talked about muskies earlier this week.
The Indiana biologist who oversees the muskie program had just spent the day at the Fawn River Hatchery tagging 1,500 young fish that were stocked in Lake Webster Thursday.
Indiana biologist Jed Pearson tags a young walleye for a Webster Lake stocking.
Its the kickoff of a new program that Pearson believes will revive the popular, yet slumping fishery. Webster was one of the top muskie destinations in the Midwest 10 years ago but stocking efforts the past few years have produced disappointing results.
Anglers catch their fair share of trophy muskie these days but not many small ones. Thats an indication that something has gone awry.
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By Louie Stout
Dont Let the Fish Fool YouSpring fishing is about as unpredictable as the Michiana weather.
Take Last week, for example. Sturgis, Mich. angler Mark Zona, host of Zonas Awesome Fishing Show, invited me to partake in the early spring action hes been enjoying since the ice left our lakes.
We launched around 8:30 on a Michigan lake that crisp morning and immediately went to the deep areas where he had great success.
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