Jerry Fox Jr. And Steve Vandemark Crowned Mwc World Champions The long-time tournament team of Jerry Fox Jr. and Steve Vandemark recently won the Masters Walleye Circuit World Walleye Championship. The 2022 MWC Championship was held on Green Bay in the Wisconsin waters near Oconto, Wisconsin. “At Oconto everyone seemingly is into graphing and targeting individual fish...
Guppy Weights For Versatility BY ERICH CARLSON Off Shore Tackle’s OR20 series Guppy Weights is already a staple in the arsenal of most serious walleye anglers. If you are not already using them, you should be! Here’s why. Originally designed for use with the OR16 Pro Clip, anglers have found the Guppy Weight to have other applications as...
From The Desk Of Nick Deshano Off Shore Tackle’s COO, Nick DeShano, says the best day at the office are onesthat look like this! It’s hard to believe another year has come and gone already. Thankfully things are getting back to normal and the supply train is finally chugging along. First, I’d like to extend my appreciation to...
Fishing In-Line Planer Boards Using The Loop Trick The OR12 Side Planer popularized the use of in-line planer boards when it was introduced more than two decades ago. More recently, an in-line board rigging method has changed the face of planer board fishing forever. The Loop Trick A simple rigging method known as the “loop trick” is...
Dropper Rod Technique BY DOUG WYNN Tom Lipe and I saw the rod dip toward the Grenada Lake surface at the same time. Tom grabbed the rod while I grabbed the net. With only 18 feet of line out, the huge white crappie surfaced instantly. It trailed my Off Shore Tackle OR36 3 Tadpole and white square bill...
Downrigger And Stacker Releases BY MARK ROMANACK Believe it or not, the most technically unique line releases in the industry are used for downrigger fishing. Many anglers simply don’t understand how much engineering is required to create downrigger line releases and stacker line releases that function flawlessly. These releases are unique because if they have too little...
Creative Lead Core Trolling BY MARK ROMANACK Sometimes old school is the best school. Lead core fishing line is a weighted line that first become popular after World War II ended and countless GI’s came home, went to work and started spending their spare time trolling for a host of species. Lead core is amazingly effective at targeting...
ADDING UP THE FISH WITH ADD-A-LINES BY MARK ROMANACK What’s the best way to catch more fish on downriggers? Double down fishing efforts by two lures instead of one on each line. Running two lures on one fishing line when using downriggers is a common rigging method, but most anglers take the easy approach and fish what is...
The editor, Mark Romanack, caught this excellent chinook salmon, pulling long lengths of weighted stainless-steel wire on Lake Michigan with the help of an OR37 SST Pro Mag Planer Board to spread out lines and cover more water. When it comes to the “heavy lifting” in trolling the OR37 SST Pro Mag has no equal. A Niche For...
Off Shore’s OR36 series Tadpole Divers work great for pulling small crankbaits, jigs and spinner rigs for open water crappie trolling. Dale Voice caught this slab on the St. John’s River in north central Florida. How The Tadpole Diver Revolutionized Trolling BY MARK ROMANACK Off Shore Tackle’s OR36 series Tadpole Divers have in many ways revolutionized how...
