Preparing Your Boat for fishing Season For those of us that live in the midwest and are forced to endure through the long, cold …

Ice-Out Catfish Frenzy! It was March during my junior year of college in Northeast Iowa, and I’d just returned from class. The red light was flashing on the answering machine, and th …

ICE CAMPING 101 Mother Nature sure has a mind of her own this winter here in Iowa. With blizzards spanning across the whole state one moment and tornadoes and thunderstorms rolling through the next, safe ice is becoming a bit hard to find for many folks. Typically by this time of …

Hands On With WST's New Bumper Stops The truth of the matter is, 999 times out of a 1,000, you don’t need a bead to protect your knot. The real question is just how important is that one fish out of a 1, …

Big Baits, Long WAits How do you find a fish that seemingly never sits still? The straightforward answer to this dilemma is that you need to keep moving too. In the words of tournament angl …

Planning a 2023 Fishing Vacation t’s early January and ice fishing is cranking in the Midwest. However, if you’re like me, the open water season can’t arrive fast enough. …