Lindy or walking sinkers are often used when drifting or trolling slowly with live bait on a plain hook. | Joe Shead Al and Ron Lindner made the Lindy Rig famous decades ago, and it continues to ...

Slab crappies are meat eaters—sure enough minnow munchers. They take artificials well at times, especially jigs—but big crappie will turn their noses at even the best of the best crappie lures.

East — Walleyes are hitting Lindy Rigs and leeches or crankbaits on the 25- to 30-foot gravel and mud areas during the day. Slip bobbers and leeches have worked best after dark on the 14- to 20-foot ...

Don Beans likes fishing for fall walleyes on lakes along the Knife Lake flowage, northeast of Ely. He favors narrows on those lakes, where minnows seem to congregate in the fall. He often uses a Lindy ...

Andrus Outdoors, Lake Sakakawea/Area Lakes: A large amount of anglers have been out on this area of the lake in spite of the weather. Fishing in this part of Sakakawea has been good but spotty with ...

The rod: The longer the better. Seven feet or more helps cast farther and dislodges snags more easily. The reel: Spinning or spincasting reel loaded with 8-pound test monofilament line will catch ...

Andrus Outdoors, Dickinson, Lake Sakakawea/Area Lakes: Fishing has been excellent over the past week. Most fish are coming from water as shallow as 6 feet, and up to 12 feet. Leeches are becoming hard ...