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Loren Crosbie caught the only limit to win the Michiana Singles season opener Sunday at Lake Wawasee.
Ten teams showed up at Lake Maxinkuckee Saturday for the Casting Couples Open, and the fish cooperated despite chilly weather.
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After taking home the Best Freshwater Soft Lure category at ICAST 2025, the Z-Man SWAG LT swimbait has officially hit retailers nationwide—arriving just in time for one of the most important big-bass windows of the year: the prespawn.
Newsflash
MWA/DNR Walleye Stockings Paying Off
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By Louie Stout
Fingerlings in netWhen Barry Ukele and a handful of others started the Michiana Walleye Association in 1993, they shared a dream of consistently catching keeper walleyes from the St. Joseph River.
They launched a stocking program with help from the DNR, and while the river has produced decent walleye fishing, keeper-size fish have been scarce.
Until this year.
“We’ve always been able to catch 6 or 8 sub-legal and maybe one legal fish (15-plus inches),” noted Ukele. “But this season has been different. One week this summer, I was catching 8 to 10 keepers and 6 non-keepers. It’s been fantastic all year.”
The difference? River biologist Neil Ledet credits the cooperative efforts with the club to stock larger fish in fewer numbers. The survival is much better as the bigger walleyes survive the winter better and grow faster.
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