Mike Iaconelli – Ike's Fishing Blog

Why I Color

OK, so I like to color. But I don’t do it with a coloring book and I don’t use crayons. I do it with nearly […]

I had another experience fishing the Upper Mississippi River that I want to talk to everyone about. It was late summer when it happened but […]

Life’s crazy, man! A few weeks ago on the Upper Mississippi River I had an experience that might help you sometime in the future so […]

After some street fishing in Paris late this summer, we moved on to Spain. We — Becky, myself and the youngest kids — spent a […]

Those of you who follow me know that I’m a big advocate for urban fishing. I’ve filmed countless TV shows and posted I don’t know […]

No matter how many lures you carry in your boat there’s always a color you need but don’t have. That’s a problem that plagues professional […]

One of the questions I get all the time is how to keep a plastic bait from sliding down the hook. I get it. Ruined […]

That’s a question I get all the time, and it’s a good one. They’re both similar at first glance but they behave very differently and […]

A bait that’s really started to shine over the past few years is the squarebill crankbait. Their shine is well deserved, too. They catch bass […]

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