How To Fix Soft Plastic Baits | Save Your Money
As heard on Outdoor Journal Radio Pete Bowman demonstrates two highly effective methods for how to fix soft plastic baits—saving you money and maximizing your fishing productivity. Pete also provides some handy tips for getting creative and repurposing baits that might otherwise be destined for the trash can. “Hey, Pete, what is your favourite fishing […]
How to Add a Stinger Hook to Your Swimbait
What Are Stinger Hooks? When Should You Add One? During a Fish’n Canada shoot in Saskatchewan, host Pete Bowman found that the Northern Pike were short-striking his bait, resulting in a frustrating number of missed fish. “These Pike are loving our swimbaits,” says Pete in the episode, “so a complete bait change isn’t necessary. It’s just […]
Where Bass Live and Eat – (BasSmart – Part 2)
BasSmart: Part 2 Where Bass Live and Eat In Part 1 we talked primarily about Largemouth Bass behaviour. Now we are going to drill deep into their habitat and the locations—basically, everything you need to know to track down Mr. LMB. Good Weeds Green weeds emit oxygen, which in turn promotes new life in the […]
Largemouth Bass Fishing 101 – (BasSmart – Part 1)
BasSmart: Part 1 The Keys to Successful Bass Fishing (For the purposes of this blog, when I refer to bass, I am referring to Largemouth Bass only.) If you listen to some of the so-called experts, you might think you’ll need a bachelor’s degree in biology if you ever hope to hook up with a […]
Top 10 Weed Types for Fishing
Sponsored by Garmin Throughout our hundred plus years of combined fishing time, along with an influx of information given to us by friends and fishing experts, we feel we’ve come up with a pretty good idea as to which weeds attract fish and are the best to try and conquer. The following is a top […]
How to Figure 8 for Muskie
Today, we’re gonna talk about what muskie fishermen call “Figure 8-ing.” Muskies are known to follow baits right up to the boat. The Figure 8 is the final enticement before you lift the lure and re-cast. Typically, you look for following muskies during the retrieve. But you may not always see them, so do this […]
All About Fishing Leaders: 5 Ways to Combat Nasty Pike and Muskie Break-Offs
Sponsored by Princecraft Boats Scenario 1: It’s the epitome of elation; you’re fishing for that Muskie or Pike of a lifetime, a 46” Northern slashes onto your bait or a 52” Muskie engulfs your presentation. The bait is gone into that cavernous mouth… BUT, you have the appropriate connection to your lure. Success! Scenario 2: […]
Top 5 Early Season Pike Presentations
Spring is here and the boat launches, at least in this part of the country, are finally losing their ice. Though the warm weather is exciting in and of itself, the ice out season is also one of the most productive times of years to hit the water, seeing one of our nation’s largest aquatic […]
How to Target Ice Out Pike
Presented by Mercury Let me tell you something about myself. I’m the kind of guy who pretty much hates putting the boat away in the late fall to early winter (2021 was December BTW) and highly anticipates pulling the beast out of storage come spring. That said, I did partake in four ice fishing sessions […]
How to Select the Perfect Walleye Boat
Sponsored by Princecraft Walleye season is one of the most anticipated times of the year for Canadians and it is never too early to start preparing. For most, these preparations revolve more around boat cleaning and gear maintenance but, for the lucky few, spring is the season of new boats! So for those who fall into […]