Had a split charter April 14 broke the inlet around 6:30am and headed north to coast guard station and went on the troll and started to pick up fish with a couple of nice ones in the mix. The bite didn’t start until later in the morning. We changed over to jigging, and no results [...]
Jigging Fishing
Detroit River jigging 2012
Well the 2012 season in the Mighty D started off early and with a bang! Great numbers of all sizes of fish are being caught. I am fishing mid river and it seems like everyone is at least catching a few. Verticle jigging Wyandotte Worms on a 3/4 ounce jig is the ticket. Brown ,camo [...]
Big City Angling, Chicago Style
By Dan McNally, UA Local 597 My love for fishing had a little different start than most. It wasn’t passed on to me by my grandfather or father or something that my friends were into. After all, we lived in the city and in order to fish you had to get on a CTA bus [...]
offshore trip
7/23 We broke the inlet around 3am for an inshore bluefin trip, the plan was to head about 58 miles. At about 48 miles off we saw a scallop boat so we pulled back and set spread out and started trolling, didn’t do anything for about half hour then the long rigger goes off and [...]
stripe bass report 11/6
Had larry and crew out on 11/6 for a stripe bass trip broke the inlet and headed right where we had caught two days ago – had pretty good bird action so decided to start out jigging and drop some spot. We made a couple of drifts with no luck, so we headed a little [...]
stripe bass report 11/13
Headed out on 11/13 for bass trip – broke the inlet around 6am and saw the birds working just north of the inlet. We started out jigging with ava’s and hit fish pretty much right away having two or three fish on at a time. we worked the area for 2hrs and it paid off [...]
stripe bass report 11/14
Headed out on 11/14 for bass trip – broke the inlet and headed back right were we had the bite yesterday but didn’t have as much bird action but had a lot of good readings on the sounder. Broke out ava’s and started jigging and it started out slow for us today – with a [...]
stripe bass report 11/21
Headed out on 11/21 with Steve and crew, broke the inlet and had some birds working just north of the inlet. We had some real good readings so we decided to start jigging and the bite turned on and all hookups were bass. Worked the area for about an hour or so but had one [...]
Rapala Makes Huge Push Into Ice Fishing, Acquires StrikeMaster Augurs
With their U.S. headquarters in Minnetonka, Minn., Rapala isn't exactly a stranger to the icefishing industry, but the maker of perhaps the most iconic lure in fishing is looking to get hard-core on the hard-water.Today, Rapala announced the acquisition of StrikeMaster augers and Mora ICE, two of the largest manufacturers of ice fishing augers in [...]
The Official Walleye Theme Song: Jigging by John Kurkosky
After sending out our weekly email, GoFISHn member John Kurkosky tipped us off on one of his original songs: Jigging. Kurkosky has a Johnny Cash-esque voice, and lyrics like: "I'm gonna jig me up a walleye from the bottom of the lake." I think we found a new theme song for walleye fishing. –Brian McClintock Like this [...]
