Thursday, May 23, 2013

Staying in the Shallows for Michigan Bluegill | OutdoorHub

Staying in the Shallows for Michigan Bluegill | OutdoorHub: "For most of the last decade, I’ve been fishing for bluegills a day or two a year with Denny Hettig, who has developed a simple trolling approach that is not only incredibly productive, but also almost idiotproof. So imagine my surprise when we pushed off the bank on small Van Buren County lake recently and Hettig handed me a rod rigged with a bobber."

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Spider rigging can be successful as black crappies enter the pre-spawn - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Spider rigging can be successful as black crappies enter the pre-spawn - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "JAMESTOWN, Pa. -- The southern end of Pymatuning Reservoir, in Crawford County between the dam and the nearby Ohio state line, is richly contoured with shallow bays that warm faster than the main body of the lake. Like the north end bays, they become prime crappie spawning waters in the spring when subsurface temperatures reach 56 to 64 degrees."

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Smallies Forced to Take One for the Team on Mille Lacs Lake | OutdoorHub

Smallies Forced to Take One for the Team on Mille Lacs Lake | OutdoorHub: "Schizophrenic Department of Natural Resources (DNR) regulations have bass anglers up in arms about one of the hottest lakes in Minnesota’s North Country, Lake Mille Lacs. A tremendous trophy smallmouth fishery, recent drastic changes have one primary goal in mind: improve the walleye population. At the risk of sounding like a Smothers Brothers sitcom routine with “Mom always liked you better,” it seems the walleye has won that brotherly slugfest. Only here “Mom” is the Minnesota DNR."

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