Fishing Blog

Maui Jim Sunglasses Review

For several months now I’ve had the pleasure of rocking a pair of Maui Jim World Cup fishing sunglasses. A few words could sum up that experience and this Maui Jim review like “love em” and “quality”. You can just feel the quality when you pick them up they have a nice weight to them. They open smooth with their quality anti corrosive hinges. Made in Italy these Maui Jim’s are looking pretty sweet..they look and feel amazing and that’s before even putting them on. I got mine in the matte black frames which just looks bad ass! I also chose the HCL® Bronze lens good for various light and weather conditions.

Putting them on the optics truly do allow you to “see the brilliance” they provide crisp beautiful colors like I have seen in no fishing glasses before.

You need to check out Maui Jim Polarized fishing glasses wether your salt water fishing marlin or your catching bass on your home lake. They had me sight fishing bass and carp all season and they are still at work into the ice fishing season of today.

Fall Walleye Fishing

Article by guest poster: Cody Brown

While hunting and steelhead fishing takes the prime interest of many outdoorsmen in the fall, for me fall is walleye time. As any die hard angler will tell you fall is definitely a time to get out on the water. All species of fish are on overdrive when it comes to feeding this time of year. The reason being is that fish are building up their fat reserves for winter, this is no different with the elusive Walleye. With this happening those who are willing to brave the weather and sacrifice some sleep have a great opportunity at some Walleye.

I like to get out just before sun down to as late as 2 or 3am and possibly even sunup if I’m feeling adventurous. Just being out on the water will not fill the live well, Walleye are very structure oriented fish so your first task should be to locate any possible fish holding structure. This can be rip rap shorelines, sunken islands, drop offs, and many other types of structure. My preference in the fall usually focuses on rocky areas and especially rocky windblown points. The reason being, that this is the only consistent type of hiding structure readily available this time of year for bait fish and other food sources. By this time of year weeds that would have served as a home for these food sources earlier have now died off pushing them into the rocks.

Now that we have found our structure we must now select a bait or lure to use. As most Walleye fisherman will tell say it is hard to beat a jig. I am a big believer in Northland Fishing Tackle Jigs and use them religiously. I usually use the Northland Fireball jig with a bigger profile artificial such as a 4″ Gulp minnow. With a jig I use a snap jigging approach which consists of simply popping the jig forward on a retrieve or troll. If your not that into jig fishing you can also try shad style Crankbaits or Stickbaits. Just remember natural looking baits for clear water and bright baits for dirtier water. With shad style baits its hard to beat a traditional shad rap size 5 or 7 and a Salmo Hornet. These two lures alone have contributed to many tournament wins in national walleye circuits. For stickbaits I prefer Storm Lures Thunderstick Jr’s, #9/#11 Rapala Minnows, and #12 Rapala Husky Jerks. These baits work good for me year round. Whether you choose a shad style Crankbait or a Stickbait both lures work great casted or trolled. If trolling shoot for a speed anywhere from 1.5-3 mph. You may find that on certain days you may need to go faster or slower than these speeds. Also at night you might want to consider using planer boards to reduce scaring fish if fishing shallow. If casting switch up retrieves until you get something to work. Anything from a simple retrieve to a stop and go retrieve can work.

These are by no means the only ways to catch Walleye this time of year and anglers should experiment as much as possible. However you decide to go about fall Walleye fishing always remember the guy out fishing always catches more than the guy sitting at home!

Article by: Cody Brown

Photo by: Jeff Herbert

Do you fish for fall Walleye? Do you target a different species of fish in the fall?

Let us know in the comments below.

Fire, and fishing, and living! Oh, my!

Haven’t posted in some time, rest assured your friendly neighborhood fishing gang is alive and well. We had a fire at our home base several months back and spent the summer on the lake without a internet connection. Some tough times and some fun times building docks and decks, Camp fires with the family and of coarse a healthy amount of fishing all while working and dealing with it all. Things are now settling back to normal so hopefully we can bring you more of that Angler Gang brand fishing and living on the regular.

Mystery Tackle Box Review

Well if you haven’t heard of Mystery Tackle Box yet maybe you live under a rock? Or maybe you don’t take part in the whole social media scene? Wait how did you even find your way to this web site? Or maybe you haven’t found your way to this web site and I’m just talking to myself?… I’m gonna go lay down.

Still here? OK well Mystery Tackle Box is a subscription service where every month you get a new Mystery Tackle Box chalked full of new baits. As of now its primarily bass tackle but Ive heard rumors that species specific boxes are in the works. I’ll let you watch a short video explaining how it works. For those of you in the know continue on to the review.

They said it would be “Like Christmas every month” and I’m feeling all warm and fuzzy about it already.

Inside the Mystery Tackle Box there were four pieces of tackle along with a letter, some business cards and stickers. Overall great first impression the presentation was super clean and professionally done. First piece of tackle was a Compact spinner bait by Stanley lookin good I love my spinner baits! Next a 4” Tandem Rig by Logic Lures which looks like a very interesting and potentially dangerous player for giant bass. A Strike King Red Eye Shad crank bait looks pretty sweet gotta love it. And last but not least a pack of swivels by InvisaSwivel these look awesome and I’m kind of pumped to try these clear swivels out.

All in all I loved the Mystery Tackle Box experience and some great tackle came in it. This will have you trying lures you may not normally try and who knows you may just catch a fish you wouldn’t normally catch. I’m looking forward to Christmas again next month well next month is actually Christmas but you get the point. Great job Mystery Tackle Box I’m hooked!