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In-Fisherman stands out as a leading and highly respected name in the world of freshwater fishing. Its mission is to educate fishing enthusiasts on effective techniques for catching fish while also promoting sustainable fishing practices for future generations. Since its inception in 1975, In-Fisherman has been at the forefront of providing the latest and most valuable information on freshwater fishing.

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Screen Scene: Fast Forward with Forward-Facing Sonar

4 weeks ago | in-fisherman.com | Thomas Allen

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Unless your head has been buried in the lake sand over the last couple of years, the constant conversation around live or forward-facing sonar has been dominating the fishing space. And frankly, some clear lines have been drawn in that same lake sand as to whether the technology should be allowed on the top levels of the bass, walleye, crappie, and muskie tournament trails.
Screen Scene: Powering Big Screens on Ice

1 month ago | in-fisherman.com | Thomas Allen

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Fishing seems to be in a constant state of evolution, especially in recent years. Being experimental with innovative minds, ice anglers have found ways to take modern technology mostly used on open water and apply it to ice fishing with impressive results.
Screen Scene: The 360-Degree Perspective

1 month ago | in-fisherman.com | Thomas Allen

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. The term “Game Changer” gets thrown around too often in our industry, and seldom are products actually capable of changing the game of fishing. But once in a while, a particular piece of equipment becomes critical to every serious angler’s on-the-water objectives. As far as fishing electronics go, GPS and contour-based mapping were definitely game-changing advancements in fishing.
Screen Scene: Mapping Advancements

1 month ago | in-fisherman.com | Thomas Allen

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. To me, lake contour mapping is the single greatest advancement in fishing technology. Sure, forward-facing sonar has changed the game, but you still need to know where to start and what depths and structures fish are relating to. Gone are the days of triangulating a weededge or rockpile. The ability to place waypoints along structure and depth contours is invaluable to catching more fish.
Screen Scene: A Case for 2D Sonar

2 months ago | in-fisherman.com | Thomas Allen

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Welcome to Screen Scene, a new regular column in In-Fisherman magazine that focuses on electronics. Screen Scene will serve as a classroom whiteboard to illustrate basic understanding, advanced settings, and applications of electronics to help you find, identify, and catch more fish.
An Icy Sight To Behold: 35th Annual Brainerd Jaycees Ice Fishing Extravaganza - In-Fisherman

2 months ago | in-fisherman.com | Todd Ceisner

I saw a man wearing what appeared to be a bike helmet with the head of a very dead 10-point buck perched on top. I saw a man in a full-fledged Chewbacca/Sasquatch get-up wander into a vendor booth and strike up a casual conversation as if nobody was going to notice his outfit.
Inside Angles: The Classic Generalist Softbait

Jan 22, 2025 | in-fisherman.com | Doug Stange

Affiliate Disclosure: This page contains affiliate links. We earn from qualifying purchases. Each day on the water is an ongoing experiment in action. And, no surprise, we’re fishing as much against other anglers as we are trying to figure out the fish. So, fishing on Mille Lacs for smallmouths, or on Lake Fork for largemouths, assuming you have a clue about where fish should be, you can assume that other anglers do to.
Inside Angles: Best Fish-Handling Practices

Jan 8, 2025 | in-fisherman.com | Doug Stange

Best practices for keeping our catch in the best possible shape have pretty much been worked out, although, as is often the case with changing protocol, it may take a generation before most anglers consider it necessary to employ them. It took a generation for catch and release to catch on; another generation for selective harvest to reign supreme. Basically, fish that are to be kept should be quickly caught and immediately killed and bled, before being placed in an ice slurry in a cooler.
Inside Angles: A Study in Contrasts

Jan 1, 2025 | in-fisherman.com | Doug Stange

Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson got it right when he said “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” So many of our best-laid plans for a day of fishing never survive the first 10 minutes on ice or open water, but we still need something in place to help us get started. Then it’s a matter of adapting and modifying the parts of the original plan that seems to be working, as situations unfold in the field.
Inside Angles: A Business Plan—Making Magic on the Water - In-Fisherman

Dec 18, 2024 | in-fisherman.com | Doug Stange

It helps to have an overarching perspective of what’s at play as we try to put a presentation plan together—no matter the fish species. A business plan, you might say, so we can make magic on the water. The ideas Buck Perry taught so many years ago remain constant. Depth control is the first order of business, followed by speed control or, said another way, the way we work lures (and present live- and deadbaits).