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Panguitch Lake Ice Fishing: Shallow Tigers, Cutthroat, and the Slot That Runs Backwards
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Panguitch Lake Ice Fishing: Shallow Tigers, Cutthroat, and the Slot That Runs Backwards

Panguitch Lake ice fishing is shallow-water trout jigging at 8,200 feet, with a 15-22 inch cutthroat and tiger trout slot that catches Strawberry regulars off guard. Timing, depths, bait rules, and roads.

October 21, 2026 11 min read
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Flaming Gorge Burbot Ice Fishing: Glow Jigs After Dark on the Rocky Points (and Why There's No Limit)
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Flaming Gorge Burbot Ice Fishing: Glow Jigs After Dark on the Rocky Points (and Why There's No Limit)

Flaming Gorge burbot ice fishing is won before dark: drill your holes early, fish glow jigs tipped with sucker meat inches off the bottom on rocky points in 10 to 50 feet, and kill everything you catch. Here's the rig, the 2026 Utah and Wyoming rules side by side, Lucerne vs Buckboard, and a night ice-safety checklist.

October 17, 2026 11 min read
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Bear Lake Cisco Dipnetting: When the Run Starts, Ice vs Open-Water Years, and How to Fill Your Limit
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Bear Lake Cisco Dipnetting: When the Run Starts, Ice vs Open-Water Years, and How to Fill Your Limit

Bear Lake cisco dipnetting explained: when the late-January Bonneville cisco run usually hits Cisco Beach, netting through ice vs wading in open-water years, jigging, the 18-inch net rule, the 30-fish limit, and the two-trout cutthroat rule.

October 15, 2026 11 min read
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Best First Ice Lures for Walleye and Perch: Buy or Skip on 4 Cheap Classics
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Best First Ice Lures for Walleye and Perch: Buy or Skip on 4 Cheap Classics

The best first ice lures for walleye and perch haven't changed in forty years. Buy-or-skip verdicts on the Rapala Jigging Rap, Northland Buck-Shot Rattle Spoon, Acme Kastmaster and Bay de Noc Swedish Pimple, with the exact condition that makes each one the right call, a size chart by species, and the two-lure answer if you'd rather not buy all four.

September 22, 2026 10 min read
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Best Blade Baits for Fall and Winter Bass Under $12 (2026)
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Best Blade Baits for Fall and Winter Bass Under $12 (2026)

The best blade baits for fall and winter bass, all verified in stock under $12 a bait, plus a silver-gold-perch color rule keyed to what your lake actually eats.

September 11, 2026 10 min read
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Best Football Jigs for Deep Summer Bass: Head-to-Head
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Best Football Jigs for Deep Summer Bass: Head-to-Head

A head-to-head buyer's guide to the best football jigs for deep summer bass on offshore ledges, with a size and skirt-color chart (green pumpkin, brown craw) for the 10-30 ft strike zone.

July 31, 2026 9 min read
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Summer Walleye in July: The Deep-Water Playbook
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Summer Walleye in July: The Deep-Water Playbook

Summer walleye in July slide out to cooler, deeper water. Here is the depth-by-structure breakdown and the jig, slow-death and glide-bait playbook that catches them on basin edges, breaklines and mid-lake humps.

July 22, 2026 8 min read
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Where Do Crappie Go After the Spawn? A Summer Brush Pile Depth Guide
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Where Do Crappie Go After the Spawn? A Summer Brush Pile Depth Guide

Where do crappie go after the spawn? They slide off shallow cover into 10-15 ft brush in late spring, drop to 15-20 ft midsummer, and suspend over deeper wood when surface temps push past 80. Here is the depth-by-depth playbook.

July 1, 2026 9 min read
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Live-Bait Jigging for Spring Walleye Along Channel Points
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Live-Bait Jigging for Spring Walleye Along Channel Points

Master spring walleye fishing with live-bait jigging along channel points. Learn how to read current seams, dial in your jigging cadence, time your trip to the full moon, and log productive spots for next season.

April 14, 2026 9 min read
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