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Swimbaits for Cold Water Chaos

Conventional

Editor’s Note: This submission comes from TFO ambassador Burnie Haney, who offers some interesting strategies for targeting open-water smallmouth, walleye, pike, and more during the winter. The cold water swimbait bite has been crazy, and the fish keep biting: smallmouth, walleye, perch, pickerel, and pike. My bait size and weight...

Walleye Trolling Tactics

Conventional

When trolling crankbaits for walleye, there are several key items to look at that you may not be paying attention to: How deep are the walleye’s you're trying to target? What are the walleye’s feeding on? How fast do you need to go to get a strike? These are just...

Late Summer Lake Walleye Tactics

Conventional

As we transition toward the end of summer and into the early fall season, casting for big water walleye that roam the Eastern Basin of Lake Ontario is something I encourage all walleye anglers to explore. This style of fishing is oftentimes over shadowed by the great trolling opportunities the...

Jigging For Giant Lake Trout

Conventional

Growing up in Colorado means camping trips. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, thousands of families flock to the woods for an escape from the 9 to 5. My family was no different, and I attribute those experiences to building my incredible passion for fishing and the outdoors. Every fisherman today...

Night Trolling for Big Walleye

Conventional

Dusting off the trolling gear from a long winter's nap is not for the faint of heart. Spring temps aren’t usually all that forgiving across most of the lower 48, but in Colorado, sitting a mile closer to the sun has some early season perks. Certainly, slathering on sunscreen again...

Precision Trolling Tactics for Spring Walleye

Conventional

Spring is an excellent time to catch some trophy walleye, and tactics such as precision trolling with TFO’s new Professional Walleye Trolling series is the ideal method and tool for this scenario. This week, we catch up with Ambassador Will Dykstra (who helped with the design and feedback of the...

Prespawn Smallmouth Tactics with Ben Nowak

Conventional

Prespawn smallmouth to me is associated with constant movement. The prespawn period is typically when water temps are between mid 40 degrees to upper 50’s, with the “Magic Number” being around 60 degrees for smallmouth to be in full-blown spawn mode. Smallmouth in the prespawn are constantly in transition from...

TFO Ambassador Bill Weidler Wins Big at St. Clair

Conventional

Patience, focus, and a lot of praying paid off for TFO Ambassador Bill Weidler this past weekend. Weidler won his first title at the YETI Bassmaster Elite Series at Lake St. Clair in Macomb County, Michigan with a four-day total of 86 pounds, 7 ounces - earning him $100,500 and...

TFO Pro Staffer COfishBRO Talks Professional Walleye

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TFO Pro Staffer and Colorado based angler Chris Edlin loves to do two things: fishing and filming fishing videos for his Youtube channel - COfishBRO. Chris has been fishing TFO fly rods for years now for trout on his local Colorado rivers, but he also spends a fair amount of...

Casting Early Season Walleye Techniques with TFO Ambassador Burnie Haney

Conventional

Walleye season in New York State opens on May 2nd; so we decided to have upstate New York TFO Ambassador and walleye expert Burnie Haney go over some tips and techniques to help you make the most of your walleye fishing season. Burnie discusses what works best for him for...

TFO Introduces the Professional Walleye Rods

Conventional

With a premium on high sensitivity, the Professional Walleye series is designed specifically for pursuing this finicky and notoriously light biting fish. Beginning with the blanks, to the grips and the reel seats, everything is maximized for sensitivity and the series lengths, powers and actions are built around some of...