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Lewis & Clark Lake was the site of Captain Norm’s First Annual Walleye Classic held Saturday June 5th.

Forty-nine teams from South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa competed in this one-day event.

There would be a 90% payback on the tournament with cash & prizes going ton the top five teams as well as a big fish prize.

In the tournament, each team was allowed to weigh in five fish, with the heaviest weight deciding the winner.

As the boats sped out across the lake at 7:00 am, weather conditions were predicted to be partly sunny with the wind picking up throughout the day.

Teams were spread out across the lake from the dam up into the river, all hoping they’d be able to locate the… Continue reading

Reprinted from the Sioux City Journal

Picture a lake map GPS chip that you could slip into your depth finder that is so accurate it shows contour lines in increments of one foot.

It is so precise that it literally draws a picture of the lake’s bottom.

Coupled with your GPS/sonar you can now place your boat on the exact spot on the map.

Star Wars technology?

Not any more.

Enter LakeMaster, a new company dedicated to bringing the angler accurate fishing maps.

It is a division of Waypoint Technologies, Inc., a privately-owned company located in Little Falls, Minn.

Their goal is to produce the most accurate lake maps available. Their products include high quality paper maps, PC computer software packages and digital GPS lake map cards.… Continue reading

Those of us, who have been patiently waiting for the warmer weather to get here, have gotten our wish.

This is the time of the year when the temperatures will start to rise, as will the humidity, making for perfect conditions for nasty weather and tougher walleye fishing conditions.

This time of the year, fish have a lot of different conditions they have to adjust or relate to including: rising water temperatures, rising/falling barometric pressure, high water, low water and the summers bright sunlight all making walleye fishing during the Dog Days of summer tough.

There are a few keys to locating and catching fish this time of the year.  Deeper water and areas with less sunlight penetration are where the fish will be located this time of the year.

With the rise in water temperatures, walleyes and other species of fish will head into deeper water searching out comfortable water temperatures.

These deep-water haunts provide the cooler water temperatures that the fish need to survive when things heat up.

There are several reasons that the fish will relocate into the depths. Another of these is that their food source, baitfish has moved down bringing the predator fish with them.

There are several methods that will allow you to take these Deep-water fish, those that have worked well for me are: leadcore line, snap weights or downriggers dragging crankbaits.

During this time of the year, the movement of the fish can vary drastically, especially just prior to a sever weather change.… Continue reading

Here’s the best walleye fishing tip you will get all week.

Grab a handful of 2-ounce bottom bouncers and some spinners, a couple dozen crawlers and head for Lake Francis Case.

Troll the mud flats at 1 1/2 to 2 miles an hour and you will catch more walleyes than you ever thought possible.

The mud flats won’t be hard to find. Just look for the concentration of boats.

Memorial Day weekend signals the beginning of some fantastic walleye fishing on this big reservoir. But, it could be Big Spirit Lake, East Okoboji Lake, Storm Lake or any number of other walleye waters within driving range.

The bottom bouncer and live bait rig will be the way to go all summer long.

When word of this unique fishing sinker first came out in the late 1970s, a lot of old walleye hands sneered at this awkward- looking wire with a big hunk of lead on it.

The Lindy Rig was king at the time. That meant a small, maybe 3/8-ounce, sinker which slid along the line so you could feed line to wary walleyes. Fish something like this on those windswept Minnesota walleye lakes? No way.… Continue reading