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March 2, 2026

Fishing is good

By Bob Jensen Fishing has always been a very important part of my life. Some of my

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February 19, 2026

From big perch on Big Spirit to walleyes on the...

By Steve Weisman So, are we early spring or late winter or a little bit of both? I

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February 13, 2026

Invest in your fishing

By Bob Jensen Buying stuff for fishing isn’t the best investment we could make

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February 11, 2026

Making ice, baby

By Steve Weisman It took a while before we really started to make the kind of ice

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February 10, 2026

For the love of ice fishing

By Steve Weisman I am a true ice fishing fanatic! There’s just something about

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January 15, 2026

The magic shake

By Bob Jensen When we go fishing, we do all that we can to put the odds in our favor

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January 8, 2026

The ups and downs of the Big Spirit Lake perch...

By Steve Weisman Perch anglers been waiting for several years for a winter like this

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December 29, 2025

Keeping Big Spirit Lake accesses open

By Steve Weisman For the nearly 50 years that I have lived in the Iowa Great Lakes

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December 22, 2025

Early season ice fishing bite continues

By Steve Weisman How about a little yo-yo weather? First, we had several inches of

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December 22, 2025

Fishing keeps changing

By Bob Jensen There have been soooo many changes in the fishing world since I’ve

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December 15, 2025

The reason why the Iowa Great Lakes Fishing Club continues...

By Steve Weisman Over its 58-year history, the Iowa Great Lakes Fishing Club (IGLFC)

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November 30, 2025

Another fishing conversation

By Bob Jensen Some friends and I gathered again recently. We talked about a lot of

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