VMC – Ike's Fishing Blog

The Ultimate Cold Water Bait

This is one technique I never wanted to give up to anyone, but you fellow bass-heads make all of this possible, so it’s only right […]

OK, so the water’s cold and the air is even colder. I don’t care. I want to go fishing. And, I want to catch some […]

Last time we talked about soft plastic jerkbaits because they look like baitfish. This time I want to talk about a Rapala Shallow Shad Rap […]

This time we’re going to talk about how to catch bass when there’s a few dragonflies around. Before we do that, though, I want to […]

This time in our Top Secret Series we’re going to talk about the MJ rig, otherwise known as the spinner-jig. It’s super simple but it […]

I’ve got this new rig that’s absolutely going to put more bass in my livewell next year, and it’ll do the same for you. It’s […]

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 […]

The Free Rig

This spring has been unbelievably wet. It seems like it rains every other day, sometimes not even every other — just every single darn day. […]