Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2019 i In-Fisherman

JUNE 3 Dealing with Seasonal Transitions > Spinnerbaiting Pike & Walleyes > Grubbing Transition Smallmouths > Timing Summer Peak Largemouths JUNE 10 Sportfishing Magic & Mayhem > Lake Trout Tactics in Overdrive > Archive: Brush Cats 1991 > Cranking Cranked Up Largemouths JUNE 17 Into the Wilderness Close to Home > Mississippi Delta Slab Crappies > Secluded Largemouths & More > Small-River Wilderness Catfish JUNE 24 Tactics for Tough Times > Wind-Pattern Largemouths > Prespawn Reservoir Smallmouths > MaxScent Secrets for Walleyes…

■ GUNNISON RIVER MONTROSE, COLORADO Trout » Incredibly scenic, with miles and miles of pristine water and plenty of public access, the river offers lots of rainbows and browns, including some big fish. Most anglers fly fish, but spinning tackle also works well. Contact: Guide Jeff McKenna, 970/778-2906, coloradowestslopeflyfishing.com. Kristine Fischer ■ COLUMBIA RIVER TRI-CITIES AREA, WASHINGTON Smallmouths » The area near the confluence of the Snake and Yakima rivers has lots of 3-pound fish with a good shot at 4 to 6-pounders. Contact: Three Rivers Tackle in West Richland, 509/948-8787, threeriverstackle.com. Bruce Holt ■ NORTH TEXAS RESERVOIRS Channel and Blue Catfish » Channel catfish are typically in full spawn in June and good numbers are caught on cutbaits fished under floats around rocks, timber, or riprap. By late June,…

Four smallmouths fitting those dimensions found themselves in my boat over five decades of pursuit. But the 24-incher that automatically becomes the new goal eludes me. Every once in a while, a lucky angler appears in the pages of the outdoor section or on the Internet holding an 8-pounder. Or maybe not so lucky. Maybe they know something you and I don’t. Or maybe they simply live near—or often visit—waters most likely to give up a bass that size. Certainly, those opportunities increase on waters like Erie, Green Bay, Lake Ontario, and the many lakes surrounding Grand Traverse Bay. But on waters that rarely produce a 6, those 5- and even 4-pound bass are trophies nobody should sneer at. And the same things that increase chances for catching trophies at…

A patch of lilacs gone wild crowded the rusty gate that served as a portal to the pond and a kind of freedom that’s hard to find beyond the age of twelve. The lilacs were a nice touch, but were rapidly losing ground to an outlaw band of mulberries. I was rooting for the lilacs. As a farm kid, I spent a good portion of my existence skirmishing with the likes of ragweed, thistles, and mulberries. Folks worried about Communism, and then Y2K, and maybe they fret a little about extraterrestrials making an unannounced visit, yet all the while them shifty mulberries have been quietly taking over the world with only a trifle of resistance. An alternate dimension existed beyond that gate, a microcosm sheltered from the miles of corn…

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I’ll not forget Toad Smith standing in the firelight that night so many summers back, the two of us younger sprouts then. Ace catmen? But of course. Many a big channel cat under our belts, by that time. Pros pros, we were. Catfishing prodigies. I had even been writing a bit about catfish and catfishing by that time, so we obviously knew what we were doing, had to know what cat-fishing was all about. Seemed logical and easy, this business about finally getting serious about flatheads. No problem. We beat most big channel cats by spooling up with 17-pound line, sometimes going to 20-pound at the heaviest, to pull fish from cover. Toad could pull channel cats from cover. In his prime he lifted a little, could bench press 350,…

Bass and Boat Noise Sound Science— In this issue of In-Fisherman , Field Editor Steve Quinn writes about the sense of hearing in bass, including the range of frequencies they can detect and how that applies to the lures we choose to capitalize on their sound detection capabilities. Beyond applying sound factors to our presentations, hearing in many species of aquatic animals also comes into play conservation-wise, whether it’s about what sounds might deter them for the purposes of keeping them out of certain areas, or how certain sounds might interfere with their normal behaviors, such feeding, migration, and communication. Sounds travel much faster in water than in air, due to the higher density of liquid water compared to air, as Quinn discusses in his article. Recreational boating can create…

But when we jump into the water to snorkel or scuba dive, we hear nothing but own our exhalations. For centuries, mariners and scientists generally regarded the aquatic world as a quiet, as referenced by Jacques Yves Cousteau’s famed film, “Silent World,” released in 1956. Since then, scientists have learned a lot about sound under water and how fish species respond to it. Sound Science Physics informs us that because molecules in water are much closer together than they are in air, motional energy is transferred faster and sound waves travel 4.8 times faster in water than in air, at almost a mile per second. Lower-frequency sounds can travel amazingly far. In his book, Knowing Bass , long-time bass sensory researcher Dr. Keith Jones noted that when the Soviet Union…

The first day on new water is cranking time. If research online or at tackle shop can pin down a few areas where walleyes might be, take the cranks out and drive around. Most anglers don’t have the sonar skills to confidently find walleyes the first day and some conditions (shallow water flats) make small groups of walleyes tough to spot. Just as good to get some lures wet in a few key places and then learn from a few bites than to go cross-eyed picking out single fish on a screen. Cranks have their limitations too. Setting a spread of lures easily eats up 20 percent of the available time. Unless the lures dive quickly, letting out leadcore or even 150 feet of mono becomes tedious compared to fast-dropping…

Doc was at the tiller of the little Lund. It was the first week of June on one of Knobby’s idyllic Northwest Ontario fly-in fishing lakes. I was stretched out, rear end on a boat seat, my head in the bow, using a throw cushion for a pillow. The engine sounded like putting a stethoscope against a hive of sleepy bees. My eyes were closed but I could tell when the sun briefly emerged through the cloud cover. Warm. Wonderful. Like a babe being held in my dear mother’s arms. Ahhh. “You gonna sleep, or you gonna fish?” Doc said. “Oh, come on, Doc,” I said. “I was just revisiting my childhood.” “What? Your diaper needs changed?” “Nah. There was a moment I remember when the world was a perfect…