Spring Multi-Species Part 2: Redemption! Fishing during March and April in Iowa can be a fickle exercise. Time the weather and water conditions just right, and you could have the best outing ever. However, for folks that fish mostly after work and on the weekends, matching ideal c …

Spring Catfishing 2024 Spring catfishing season has finally begun! Recent rains, higher water, and warmer temperatures, have catfish actively biting on streams in Western Iowa. Very soon, increased flows on creeks and rivers will trigger the annual pre-spawn migration upriver, and …

Catfish Rigs:For every style of catfishing It’s time to dust off those rods and start gearing up for catfish season if you haven't already, but the big question is, do you know where to start? With all the new and innovative ways of targeting cats, rigging rods can seem a …

Spring Multi-Species Humble Pie   If you’re like me, as the late ice season ends and the wait begins for open water season, the anticipation grows like a wildfire. Dust is blown off of tackle, rods, and reels, and an audit of everything that didn’t get done last f …

Gear Spotlight: Seeker 60 and Seeker 60 Pro Baitcast Reels! TextFor years, Whisker Seeker Tackle loyalists have asked when the experts in all things catfishing would offer a line of fishing reels. Well folks, the wait is finally over! For 2024, after years of torture te …

Ice-out cats! Staring out the window, the snow covered ground and temps in the high 20’s belie the reality of the 2024 ice fishing season. It can only be described as short! Most ponds lacked safe ice in Western Iowa until early January, and then a three week cold snap …