I just purchased an assortment of silver and gold “Binsky” blade baits. Years ago I had some success with a blade bait fishing for bass and walleye, with one of the largest walleyes of the trip caught with one in faster flowing water. I haven’t used one in a few…
Chemoreception in fish, i.e. gustation and olfaction or more simply taste and smell, can play a large role in fishing success. While all fish can likely taste to some degree, taste would not be considered to be a primary means of identifying food for most fish. The one great exception…
When I started researching about hearing in fish I really started to get bogged down in a lot of biology and physics, things like bone conduction, transmission of sound in water and inverse square laws come to mind. After a bit of this I realized that for our purposes as…
As an addendum to the previous post, I’ve gone through a number or sources for the various depths at which the various colors will no longer be discernible underwater. For most freshwater rivers and lakes color loss underwater will be at approximately: Red ~15-18 ft (5 m) (note: after 5…
The various senses that fish use to navigate their watery world are of utmost interest to us as anglers. For each species a particular set of senses will dominate their hunt for food and our knowledge of this can be used to fool them to take our bait. As with…
The International Game Fish Association (IFGA) hosts a staggering number of fishing records for both freshwater and saltwater fish. Most of these world records are truly amazing. Worth a look. (http://wrec.igfa.org/)
The different types of sinkers all have one common theme, to take your bait down to where the fish are. There is a wide array of ways that they accomplish this and not all of them are intuitive. Below is a list of a variety of sinker types along with…
On an earlier trip this fall I had the misfortune to find out (the hard way) that my 10 year old survival suit was no longer waterproof. After three hours of fishing in hard, cold rain I was soaked from my chest to my toes – water was actually running…
I have been humbled. I considered myself a pretty good angler and have had some good success over the years. However, it appears I have a lot left to learn. Over the past weekend I participated in my first professional walleye tournament – the Sagamok Fall Walleye Classic on the…
On a recent trip trolling for lake trout it was interesting to observe patterns relating to lure colour effectiveness and light conditions. With all things being equal (depth of lure, lure type, line type, water clarity etc.) certain spoon colours worked better or worse depending on general light conditions. In…
