Posts by Dennis Foster
Product Review | Aluma Aluminum Trailers
Durable trailers from Aluma are lightweight and maintenance free. Choose from utility trailers, aluminum ATV trailers, car, motorcycle and snowmobile trailers, car haulers, enclosed trailers, watercraft trailers, truck beds, and even aluminum picnic tables.
Read MoreProduct Review | FSDV20DT Fish Scout Double Vision
Fish Scout Double Vision with FL20 Tri-Beam IceDucer with DTD (depth, tempatgure and direction) is the ultimate fishing tool that has everything you’ll need to DOUBLE your fishing success. By blending the Fish Scout Camera system with the FL20 three-color Flasher, you have created the ultimate fishing machine.
Read MoreProduct Feature | PRO XT900 XTREME Thermal Cabin Package
The All Pro XT900 Package include: Pro XT900 Blue Ice Camo Shell with Square Tube Framing and Hardware, Pro Sled, and one or two 360 Degree Cushion Seats with Multi-Directional Adjustable Seating System.
Read MoreATV Rigging Options
Once we have decent ice and are no longer limited t o fishing shorelines, mobility becomes a key component in our level of success as we are now able to fully explore every nook and cranny of the lake. As with most things, having a tried and true system in place not only keeps thing simple and organized, but also contributes heavily in keeping a good attitude and that definitely equates to more fish on the ice.
Read MoreTactics for Reservoir Walleyes | In-Fisherman Ice Guide
INDMENTS. RESERVOIRS. FLOWAGES.Call them what you want, they’re exciting to fish. “And productive,” according to Dennis Foster, a guide from Mellete, South Dakota, and an aficionado of the fishing on the Missouri river reservoirs.“ The Dakota reservoirs grow fish fast and to impressive proportions—not just walleyes, although they’re usually the main target.
Read MoreMethods for Selectively Targeting Larger Walleye
If you want to up your game a bit and try to weed out the smaller eater sized fish and specifically focus your efforts on the largest mature fish on any given body of water…
Read MoreCreative Crawler Rigging
Crawlers and walleyes go together like cookies and milk, but rigging a worm right isn’t as intuitive as you might guess. What you’ve been doing with crawlers may be timeless and proven, maybe a spinner harness on a bottom bouncer or as part of a trolling spread. Or maybe you prefer nose-hooking a fat crawler behind a slipsinker and letting it dance across complex structure. How about a Slow Death Hook and half a crawler.
Read MorePut Some Meat Into Your Trolling | MidWest Outdoors
As the weather begins to warm in earnest during the summer months, we see not only the air temperature rise, but more importantly, the water temperature. Just as we tend to become much more active, fish of all species respond in kind, particularly my favorite—the walleye. Because of this, we can now begin to leave behind some of the finesse tactics that are so common early in the open water period.
Read MoreSlow Death is a great Option
I am going to relay a couple of things that may be known to some of the more savvy walleye anglers out there, but may not be to the vast masses of anglers. In doing so, I will also share how to combine the two into what I personally feel is the hottest livebait technique…
Read MoreThe Dakotas Ice-Out Walleyes & Pike | Great Plains Game & Fish
First ice brings months of anticipation — better yet, anxiety — even long before the first leaf slowly tumbles down in early fall. But as good as early ice-fishing always is here in the Dakotas, I can honestly say that the urgency of what awaits us as we drift from the common doldrums of midwinter into the late- to last-ice periods can easily override even the best days that we have enjoyed to date.
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