Welcome toWild Smallie Guided Fishing
If you are looking to get in on the best, most exciting fishing the state has to offer, look no farther. While I specialize in chasing down smallmouth bass and muskies on the Upper Mississippi, I have other trips available as well. Wade fishing trips on local trout streams are a great option, and I am now featuring fall sturgeon trips as well.
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The Fishing Industry’s Secret Trade Show – X-CAST
Everyone in the fishing industry is familiar with “ICAST”-it is the biggest trade show specific to the sport fishing industry. It is held every summer in Florida, and it is here where all the manufacturers officially reveal their offering for the upcoming season. ...
Jimmy Buffett, you will be missed
The fish cleaning shack at Tikchik Narrows Lodge was a great place. Late afternoons would see the planes return to the lodge, and salmon that had been retained were loaded into wheel barrows to be processed by us fish guides in the shack. It was always cool in there,...
Who Wants a Beer?
What’s better than a beer? Free beer? How about a surprise free beer? Like there you are, minding your own business. You might be a little hot, a little thirsty. Suddenly, without warning, you are presented with a beer. Maybe you are at a friend or...
Fishing Shows
I have been hooked on watching fishing shows since I was a little kid. To really illustrate this, let’s go back to winter, 1975. On a Saturday morning, my mom announced that the family was going to go to a movie, it was the new Mel Brooks film, “Young...
Dangerous Journey
We’ve got crows back at home. In my town we see them every day. Sometimes solo, sometimes in a group. I am well aware that a group of crows is referred to as a “murder” but despite this ominous label, they’re pretty shy and generally fly away at the first sign of...
Learn the Lingo
The lingo. The jargon. The nomenclature. Seems like every group of guys has their own dictionary of words, phrases and coded language that is specific to them, and you’d better learn it if you don’t want to feel like an outsider. Try this sentence: “Something just...