The Blog Squad

Gone fishing – that’s where I usually was. In the fall it was gone to fish for walleyes and northerns. Anything else we caught was an accident. Here another of the tips or Northern pike techniques for newbies to catch big northerns.

One day my dad heard the northerns were biting on a small, hard to get to, out of the way, little lake that was back in the middle of a cow pasture. The road to the fishing lake was more of a trail and it’s a good thing I had a pickup as my car wouldn’t have made it back in there.

We were the only people there and I picked a spot on a small point where an arm of water that wandered back into the pasture started. It was fall and I figured the northers might be going into the shallows on the arm to bask in the sun and then come back to the deeper water to feed.

Bass fishing tips aren’t something I have a lot of. As I said before I hardly ever fished for bass. I grew up in Minnesota and if it wasn’t walleyes, northerns or panfish it’s as if it didn’t exist. What I had never caught was a Musky.

I had some friends who had a 32 foot trailer on their lot on Blackwater Lake in northern Minnesota and my buddy and I went up there a few times with the express idea of catching muskies.

It’s a good sized lake with a lot of different habitat and you could catch bass, northerns, walleyes and muskies. Crappies and bluegills were also abundant but the water was so clear it made fishing a bit tough.

We tried for muskies a couple of days and never had a hit let alone a follow so to soothe our disappointment we would fish crappies and bluegills just so we could catch something.