Hi Folks. Well, it’s August again as I write this, and time to reflect on the past month fishing the mesotrophic portions of Lake Of The Woods. A strange year indeed. I was there for opening day, and had water temperatures in the 61 degree range. When I returned two weeks later, the water temperatureRead More >
Hi folks. I write this just after returning from the Canadian opener. Only spent two days but had a great time and boated some very nice fish. One of the many things I enjoy about the opener is I get to test the many ‘experiments’ I’ve invested time and money in over the winter. OccasionallyRead More >
As I sit down to write this column its April and while trying to decide on a topic I get a call from a friend who says, “Dick there’s still 25 inches of ice on Lake Of The Woods, last year I was trolling for lakers there at this time, what’s going to happen onRead More >
The muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), also known as muskelunge, muscallonge, milliganong, or maskinonge (and often abbreviated “muskie” or “musky”), is a species of large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish of North America. The muskellunge is the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae. The common name comes from the Ojibwa word maashkinoozhe, meaning “ugly pike”, by wayRead More >
Oxygen is necessary for higher life on this planet and terrestrial plants and animals obtain oxygen as a gas from the air. Despite the fact that all of us are taking oxygen into our bodies and converting it to carbon dioxide as part of a process to extract energy from our food, the amount ofRead More >
Why Is It Important? Like terrestrial animals, fish and other aquatic organisms need oxygen to live. As water moves past their gills (or other breathing apparatus), microscopic bubbles of oxygen gas in the water called dissolved oxygen (DO), are transferred from the water to their blood. Like any other gas diffusion process, the transfer isRead More >
A digital collection of botanical drawings depicting 175 common and rare, native and non-native species. To continue reading this article, follow the link: http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/node/482
Full Moon or Dark Moon? Major and minor solunar periods? Which is best? Does any of this moon mumbo jumbo make any real sense nor does it actually work? These are legitimate questions asked by thousands of anglers each year, and they deserve concrete answers backed up by some bona-fide data. Yet as much asRead More >
In 1926 John Alden Knight* postulated some folk lore he picked up in Florida and proceeded to attempt a refinement, giving it the name Solunar (Sol for sun and Lunar for moon). Knight compiled a list of 33 factors which influence or control day-to-day behavior of fresh and salt-water fish. Everything was taken into accountRead More >
A cold front is defined as the transition zone where a cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass. Cold fronts generally move from northwest to southeast. The air behind a cold front is noticeably colder and drier than the air ahead of it. When a cold front passes through, temperatures can drop moreRead More >
Common Name from the characteristic golden sheen of the adult Other common names include: Bream, Butterfish, Chub, Dace, Goldfish, Roach, Shad Roach, Sunfish, Méné Jaune (Qué) To continue reading this article, follow the link: http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/fish/notemigonus.html
A small, slender-bodied relative of the whitefish. The cisco’s other common names include: Blueback, Freshwater Herring, Lake Herring, Tullibee. To continue reading this aricle, follow the link: http://www.rook.org/earl/bwca/nature/fish/coregonusart.html
