Fishful Thinker principles: 1) fish for what’s biting. 2) fish to the conditions. 3) fish your confidence baits. This day is a perfect example…many laughs were shared while boating huge numbers of fish on what could easily have a very poor day of struggling to catch a walleye or two. #practicewhatipreach | Fishful Thinker
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Fishful Thinker principles: 1) fish for what’s biting. 2) fish to the conditions. 3) fish your confidence baits. This day is a perfect example…many laughs were shared while boating huge numbers of fish on what could easily have a very poor day of struggling to catch a walleye or two. #practicewhatipreach | Fishful Thinker
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Getting some reps with Forward Facing Sonar... Love it or hate it, FFS will teach you a ton about catching fish. Raw video: watch how curious these smallies are about my drop-shotted MaxScent Flat Worm, and how far up and down in the water column they'll follow it. Before FFS, we rarely even targetted fish suspended 20 feet down over 40 feet of water, but it's common place now. This was filmed back in October, but that same scenario played out all summer long. #ffs #dropshot #smallmouthbass #tbt
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Getting some reps with Forward Facing Sonar... Love it or hate it, FFS will teach you a ton about catching fish. Raw video: watch how curious these smallies are about my drop-shotted MaxScent Flat Worm, and how far up and down in the water column they'll follow it. Before FFS, we rarely even targetted fish suspended 20 feet down over 40 feet of water, but it's common place now. This was filmed back in October, but that same scenario played out all summer long. #ffs #dropshot #smallmouthbass #tbt
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Reality...34 minutes of actual fishing time (5:04-5:38pm) including eight fish of three species…reduced to about 7.5 minutes of video... Berkley Fishing's hard bait development manager, Dan Spengler is one of our favorite anglers to talk, film and fish with. The new Money Badger crankbait is his baby and we know first hand why; smallmouth, largemouth, walleye, pike, crappie, white bass or trout...Money Badger just don't care! | Fishful Thinker
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Reality...34 minutes of actual fishing time (5:04-5:38pm) including eight fish of three species…reduced to about 7.5 minutes of video... Berkley Fishing's hard bait development manager, Dan Spengler is one of our favorite anglers to talk, film and fish with. The new Money Badger crankbait is his baby and we know first hand why; smallmouth, largemouth, walleye, pike, crappie, white bass or trout...Money Badger just don't care! | Fishful Thinker
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Raw video, fun catch... A couple of key points: 1) Dams are always good places to fish, even old submerged dams. 2) Many lures have better action on light line. In this case, it's a Flicker Shad on 8# X9 braid tipped with a 6# 100% Fluorocarbon leader, fished on a medium light powered, moderate action Winch spinning rod. 3) Focussing on proven multi-species lures and fishing locations is the fastest way to get some fish caught, especially on places you haven't been to in a long time. A high perc
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Raw video, fun catch... A couple of key points: 1) Dams are always good places to fish, even old submerged dams. 2) Many lures have better action on light line. In this case, it's a Flicker Shad on 8# X9 braid tipped with a 6# 100% Fluorocarbon leader, fished on a medium light powered, moderate action Winch spinning rod. 3) Focussing on proven multi-species lures and fishing locations is the fastest way to get some fish caught, especially on places you haven't been to in a long time. A high perc
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Raw video, mild language warning...and an awesome display of my fly rod skills!? 🙄 Stay humble, 'Thinkers; it makes life a lot easier... | Fishful Thinker
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Raw video, mild language warning...and an awesome display of my fly rod skills!? 🙄 Stay humble, 'Thinkers; it makes life a lot easier... | Fishful Thinker
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We got walleye fishing advice from locals the evening before...and then completely wrote it off and did what we'd do anywhere else; follow map reading basics, break down the aquatic veg quickly, then make rigging details and bait selection fit the scenario. In this case, it was the first spot we stopped at on a lake I'd never been to and Dan had crappie fished once. We were targeting walleyes and completely disregarding the advice we'd been given by locals provced to be our best plan. Why? Becau
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We got walleye fishing advice from locals the evening before...and then completely wrote it off and did what we'd do anywhere else; follow map reading basics, break down the aquatic veg quickly, then make rigging details and bait selection fit the scenario. In this case, it was the first spot we stopped at on a lake I'd never been to and Dan had crappie fished once. We were targeting walleyes and completely disregarding the advice we'd been given by locals provced to be our best plan. Why? Becau
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Who amongst you 'Thinkers are using live or forward facing sonar? I've been using it more and more over the last two seasons and it's taught me loads about fish behavior, depth ranges and strike zones. This clip is shot in 35 FOW...notice how quickly the entire school perks up when one of them notices my lure from 20 feet below it, dropping in on them? Also notice how they move up and down basically the entire water column; so much for depth range and strike zone theories from a few years ago! I
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Who amongst you 'Thinkers are using live or forward facing sonar? I've been using it more and more over the last two seasons and it's taught me loads about fish behavior, depth ranges and strike zones. This clip is shot in 35 FOW...notice how quickly the entire school perks up when one of them notices my lure from 20 feet below it, dropping in on them? Also notice how they move up and down basically the entire water column; so much for depth range and strike zone theories from a few years ago! I
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This is my brain thinking ahead to spring bass fishing...😎 | Fishful Thinker
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Lure testing... Raw video shot while presenting the tiniest Berkley Power Switch - a mere 1.75" and 1/16oz - to what I thought based on Active Target were crappies. Alas they were not, but these catches illustrate how efficient the Power Switch is at getting multi-species bites. This exact one has racked up catches into the hundreds since last July and kept on catching bass, walleyes and white bass today. No need to get a fresh body or straighten it as you would with a jig/plastic combo, ultimat
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Part of being on and around bodies of water is observing all the critters. Minks are a fairly common siting for us in our travels and this little dude swam out of that flooded tree in front of my boat with his crawdad breakfast secured. What unique animals do you have you encountered while fishing? | Fishful Thinker
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I think about the “Fishful Thinker” about every single time I’m on the water….. ❤️ | Fish On with Coach Steve
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Here's why I'm an advocate of pulling a crankbait with the rod instead of winding it with the reel around snagging areas... In this case it's the potent Money Badger crankbait and the translucent color addresses the super clear water. Tons of fish were caught with a full cross-section of the lake's bass size range. #berkleyfishing #sportsmanswarehouse #bassfishing #fishingtips #crankbaitfishing Crowley Marine Boats #seewhatsoutthere | Fishful Thinker
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I could do this for days... Sneaking quietly along, pitching as smooth and subtle as possible into a cover edge of some sort, focussed, confident and full of anticipation, just knowing any pitch could be The One... Bassers far and wide know that vibe and it never gets old! | Fishful Thinker
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Ahh…the old “string trick”… Crazy fish got me with treble hook…it happens and here’s how we plucked it in the boat. After all, there were still fish to be caught… | Fishful Thinker
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Forward Facing Sonar is the most polarizing technology I've seen come along in all my fishing years. I worked at Sportsman's Warehouse at the "reel bar"when Side Scan came out 20ish years ago and many customers had negative comments about what it would do to the sport. Comments about making it too easy, or the fish don't stand a chance were common back then, but it remained in use wihtout apparent negative affects. That tech previously lead the way for dividing anglers, but FFS is a whole new le
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Fun with fish... Sometimes it's just the simple days full of catching that are the most fun. In this case we'd spotted a huge school of crappie spread out and suspended mid water column. It didn't take long to figure out the right lure and retrieve, and catching was nearly non-stop once we did. That little Berkely Power Switch hybrid jig was purpose built just for this kind of fishing and really shined on this day with Danno in MN. All I had to do was simply count it down to the requisite depth
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Fishing with Berkley's Dan Spengler never disappoints; dude is very fishy and obsessed with figuring out how to catch more fish. He caught this portley smallmouth on one his babies, the PowerBlade which is a very refined version of the venerable bass catching spinnerbait. Personally, I like the compact model in this vid because its weight vs profile is great for speed and weedlessness, two things I look for in a spinnerbait. Sometimes I want a slow roller, just above the bottom, but most of the
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For the new anglers and those that prefer closed face reels for whatever reasons, here’s our take on the reel style to grow with. #fishingtackle #advice | Fishful Thinker
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Active PowerBaiting Techniques for Trout, part 1 (fishing for trout)
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Leaders...why, what with and how. Here's a quick rundown... | Fishful Thinker
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Raw vid, rare fish catch...and the kind of giant encounter that keeps us casting! Oh, and have I ever mentioned my love of chrome jerkbaits???😎 | Fishful Thinker
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ICAST...everything fishing in one spot. Let’s do this! | Fishful Thinker
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No pattern to your fishing? No problem...go junk fishing! New episode debuting this week on both Altitude Sports Channel and World Fishing Network. | Fishful Thinker
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And the winner is... | Fishful Thinker
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#yolo | Fishful Thinker
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Quick update on all things Fishful... | Fishful Thinker
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Late ice should make for an interesting spring guide season…#sportsmanswarehouse | Fishful Thinker
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Our new season is airing on both WFN - World Fishing Network and Altitude TV. This season we're taking an in-depth look at 13 or our most popular episodes and giving you the back story, inside scoop, lessons we learned and what we'd fish if were visiting the places today. Hope youl'll tune in! | Fishful Thinker
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