Your Catches “19.5 inch rainbow”

Beautiful 3 pound Rainbow Trout and 19.5" caught using a white trout magnet!

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Your Catches: 13″ Crappie Casting For Eyes

I picked up this 13" crappie on Oneida Lake while drifting for walleyes. I was switching back and forth casting a jig and casting a silver willow blade over the weeds. This one hit the spinner. I got 2 walleyes on the spinner and 4 walleyes jigging.

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Your Catches: Variety of Big Fish in the Weeds

We drifted the weeds beds that finally showed up on Oneida. On one half hour Drift we got 2 Bass, 2 Large Northern, 3 Walleyes a Crappie and 3 Pickerel. One of the Northerns pushed 30". That photo will be coming.

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Your Catches: Eye to Eye

Some fish that didn't get away.

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Your Catches: Boated 13 Pickerel

Fishing the weeds has been hot on Oneida. we boated 13 pickerel, 7 large mouths, 1 Northern several perch and sunfish and 8 walleyes. We're getting them drifting from short weeds into thick in 12-14' of water. Casting jigs then switching to casting willow blades when the weeds get thicker. We're...

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Your Catches: Red Eye Shad Nails Deep Creek Lake...

A nice largemouth bass caught hitting a Strike King Red Eye off of stumps at Deep Creek Lake.

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Storm Rattlin’ Chug Bug Review

Mar 25th

Don't let the big innocent eyes fool you, these little guys are viscous.

Topwater fishing is my favorite type of fishing. In calm open water nothing beats splashing a popper lure around. A surface strike on a popper can offer up some of the most exciting moments to be had in freshwater fishing. The added rush of adrenaline offered makes it one of the most appealing forms of fishing. Today dozens of lure manufacturers offer a wide variety of surface poppers. The Storm Rattlin’ Chug Bug has become one of the most popular in recent years. So I picked one up last season to find out why.

This large wide lip creates a noise you've gotta hear.

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Rapala X-Rap Review

Feb 24th

Posted by Antonio in Lures

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This is probably the most radical lure Rapala has put out in recent years. Radical in the true sense, as in a deviation from what rapala usually does. Not to coincide with the “X-treme” marketing they’ve put behind the “X-rap.”

This is Rapala so you know that there are plenty of colors and styles to choose from in this series, but how do these little bad boys work? I own the X-Rap 8 and it’s personally one of my favorite Rapala’s to fish.

What makes them so fun is the great side to side action you get on them. They’re more aggressive than a traditional jerk bait, which really shows when you slash them from side to side. I’m the type of angler that likes the finesse.

Anytime I can use a lure or bait that helps me define more of the action, I’m usually more than content. This little guy is marketed for Bass, Pike, Salmon, Trout, Walleye, Snook, Redfish & Tarpon.

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