By Brian Gaber | April 5th, 2009
Brian Gaber
The NAIFC season is in the books. All the drama, competition, and camaraderie are packaged up with your ice gear for another off season. Some are heading to the spring Walleye Rivers, while others are turning their sights to Steelhead. There are some of us, though, that are getting the boats rigged up for the open water season of data collection. I am assembling all my favorite electronics, clearing data cards, and gathering up the maps necessary to unlock next year’s hot ice spots.
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By John Bacarella | February 28th, 2009
John Fishing in 3-D
Have you ever been sitting right next to someone without one single bite, while he just hammers the fish one after another?? You try everything but the kitchen sink and you would try that too if you could get it down the hole. You cut holes around him. Nothing. You watch his technique and copy it. Nothing. You put on the same bait. Nothing. You think, man he must just have the mother load sitting right under his hole. Well, almost.
Most likely, that guy catching the fish was using the 3-D world view of the fish whether he knew it or not. (more…)
By Howard Underwood | February 28th, 2009
Nice Results
Just like pros of the MLB, the pros of the NAIFC have their “tricks-of-the-trade” as well. One of those tricks is common to both sports. It is the CHANGE UP and both have the similarity of presentation. In baseball, the wrong presentation means a home run and that’s a bad thing. In the NAIFC, the right presentation means a home run and that’s a good thing.
After the last two legs of the circuit, Lake Delevan and Channel Lake, I couldn’t help but wonder what the “phenom phishing” team of Bauer and Erath did so differently that the other teams didn’t do to take back to back wins in the NAIFC… which by the way doesn’t happen that often. So after catching up with them at Channel Lake weigh-ins this is what I was so politely reminded about… change it up! (more…)
