Educated Angler is proud to announce that Brian Butts, Sea Flea, has joined the Pro Staff. Flea brings a great enthusiasm for Great Lakes fishing and a family orientation to competitive angling. Brian is a great asset to the Educated Angler f...
Educated Angler is proud to announce the addition of Mike Curreri (LittleDandy) - Click for more information as the last member to the 2007 Field Staff. This marks the end of first phase of the Field Staff selection process, we will once agai...
Pro Staff applications are still being accepted for select professional Salmon and Walleye teams.
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Hotspots for Winter Perch
Yellow perch are one of, if not the most, popular species taken through the ice by Michigan ice-anglers. The reason for their popularity is simple. When you find them, yellow perch are easy to catch. Winter perch are voracious feeders and are very ...
Maybe you have been fishing with down riggers, maybe you are new to the
sport, or maybe you already use divers, but have problems with them.
This article will discuss the basics of setting up, rigging, and
running multiple divers from smalle... Read more...
Fishing in 3D
Visualizing your spread in 3D is a key component to increased success and repeatability each time you’re on the water. However, this is not the type of article that is going to tell you to put A here and B there and you’ll catch m...
Educated Angler is proud to announce that renowned outdoor writer/photgrapher, Mike Gnatkowski, has joined the EA Pro Staff as our Pro-Staffer At-Large. Mike, also known as Gnat, is multi-talented and diverse...running Great Lakes charters on his 27' Tiara Open, EQUALIZER; guiding on West Michigan rivers in his Wooldridge jet sled; ice-fishing; duck hunting; taking award-winning photos; and writing articles and books.
For those of us who have small to mid-sized outboard powered boats our trolling season can be extended to most of, if not all, winter. I am fortunate to live near a coal-fired power plant, namely the Oak Creek power generating station in southeastern Wisconsin, there is a nice launch nearby at Bender Park with piers that stay in year round. Many of you may be aware of this fishery but I thought it might be interesting to describe the baits, setups, and tactics that are used to catch thes...
Fans of Saginaw Bay’s winter ice fishery got their wish last
winter. Super-cold temperatures early in the season encased the bay in
a solid cover of ice, which made it easy to access the depths that
harbor the bay’s winter walleyes. With plenty of safe ice, ice-anglers
had a banner year icing limits of the trophy walleye’s that the bay is
famous for. What anglers didn’t expect is a little added bonus. More
and more anglers are reporting catching feisty whitefish thr... Read more...
Michigan Sea Grant - Part 2
Alternative fuels and lubricants
Dennis Donahue from NOAA gave a short presentation on alternative fuels
and lubricants for the marine industry, specificity he spoke on
Bio-Diesel and E-100. E-100 is made from soybeans grown in the U.S. and
is a more environmentally friendly product than petroleum based diesel
fuel. E-100 has a low impact on the eco-system because it breaks down
more easily when introduced into the water whether through a fuel spill
or in the bilge. It has a lower s...
Great Lakes anglers know how much fun battling feisty steelhead in open water is. But imagine how tough it would be to land one of those lively devils through the ice. Granted, they wouldn’t jump as much (ha!!!), but you can be sure that you’d have one heck of a tussle getting them to the hole. Well, there’s a cadre of Michigan anglers who specialize in doing just that.
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Cut Bait for Dummies
After fishing cut bait for three years with very limited success, I am not sure what made me decide to try it again. Maybe it was the wintertime seminars and hearing how well everyone else seemed to be doing with it. Maybe it was because I knew it was a presentation that worked all over and I just couldn’t get it to work. Whatever the reasons, when I set up my new boat with only two riggers I really wanted to figure it out and get it to work for me.
Educated Angler is proud to introduce the newest additions to our 2007 Field Staff. The selection process has now temporarily ended, we are extremely thankful for all the members who have submitted applications.
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