Todd Thesenvitz was fishing with his wife and daughter near Clark, South Dakota, earlier this month when he hooked a strong fish with a bottom-bumper rig and worked it close to his boat. It was a good ...

In the early days, the late 1960s when bottom bouncers came into the picture, the few anglers fishing them at that time would tie on a three-ounce bouncer, add a spinner rig on three feet of leader ...

Much like peanut butter and jelly, spinner rigs and bottom bouncers are a marriage of two types of lures to catch walleyes and are deadly anywhere in the states. Spinners and bottom bouncers have the ...

The bottom bouncer — it’s one of those items that’s in every angler’s tackle box. Now there is a new and improved version of the timeless walleye killer; the double bottom bouncer. Bob Meter of ...

The sun was at high noon and we had a 1- to 2-foot chop on Hamlin Lake. The rod tips were bouncing in unison with the waves when one tip stayed down. Quickly, my son grabbed the rod and set the hook.

There are lots of ways to catch walleye. Although they do suspend at times and in certain waters like Lake Erie, in many cases, walleyes stick pretty tight to the bottom. Thus, you need a sinker to ...

I like to think I stay on the cutting edge of fishing innovations, but there are times when I can be slow to adopt a new trend. At times, it is skepticism. Other times, it is just not a fishing style ...

Walleye anglers all over Kansas look for an edge when it comes to catching these toothy critters. There’s no doubt the majority of walleye at this time of year fall for a nightcrawler fished a variety ...

Who'd have known 20 years ago that one day walleye would be among the most popular sport fish at Beaver Lake? Maybe the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission fisheries staff saw that vision. Game and Fish ...

South Dakota truly has some of the best walleye fishing in the entire United States. That’s a pretty strong statement when there are lakes teeming with giant fish, such as Lake Erie or Lake of the ...

It's not very often that you can point to something and say, "That really revolutionized fishing." And that is especially true of something as innocuous as a fishing sinker. Yet, there are two sinker ...