In Indiana, as well as most of the country, panfish are the most sought after fish by the majority of anglers. Of this large family of fish, bluegills and crappie make up the majority of the anglers focus. Harvested numbers of these two fish typically exceeds 100,000 fish in any given year on a large reservoir or lake. And of these fish, a large percentage are caught on ...

Fishing the spectrum

As the second fish in as many minutes thumped a white jig head with a leech, there was a scramble as five hands reached into the open tackle box to find 3/8 ounce heads of the same color. In minutes, two more walleye are flopping on the deck and another rod is bent double – and they say color isn’t that important. ...

“We just wanted a lure that would catch fish.”
That’s how the late Bert Hall described the rationale behind his Road Runner lure. He designed it in 1958, but rather than target only bass, trout or panfish, he wanted a generalist lure that would attract almost any fish.
That’s exactly what Hall produced. A Road Runner slowly retrieved on light line will draw strikes from black bass, white bass, crappie, bluegills, sauger, walleyes, trout, stripers—you name ...