Learn how to rig, deploy, and catch fish with a downrigger for consistent success targeting trout, salmon, walleye or any other deep water fish. This gives you the basic idea of a downrigger set up.

A few years ago, I had the opportunity to fish for walleye and sauger at Lake of the Woods, a rather large body of water located where Minnesota and Canada come together. While there, I learned just ...

Here is Tony Floor’s Tackle Box report for September: As an old dog – getting older – who has been around a salmon rod for decades, I have an issue I want to share with you. In mid-July, I ...

Upon returning to the dock after a charter the other day, an older gentleman that was fishing off the pier asked me several questions about the downriggers that were on the back of my boat. He ...

A Lake Superior troller, John Ehlers grew tired of losing fish. He knew it happened when his line was momentarily slack after it released from a downrigger cable or a planer board. So Ehlers started ...