Lindy or walking sinkers are often used when drifting or trolling slowly with live bait on a plain hook. | Joe Shead Al and Ron Lindner made the Lindy Rig famous decades ago, and it continues to ...

It's not very often that you can point to something and say, "That really revolutionized fishing." And that is especially true of something as innocuous as a fishing sinker. Yet, there are two sinker ...

Don Beans likes fishing for fall walleyes on lakes along the Knife Lake flowage, northeast of Ely. He favors narrows on those lakes, where minnows seem to congregate in the fall. He often uses a Lindy ...

Fall is a great time to be on the water. The lakes usually aren’t crowded, and the fish bite. When chasing walleyes, fall anglers often head to the lake armed with a supply of minnows, jigs, and live ...

While many fishermen who use the original Lindy Rig lengthen the snell to 8 or 9 feet, sometimes even longer, the men who introduced the Lindy Rig shorten theirs. Did you know the original Lindy Rig ...

Nick Shabert of Port Isabel, Texas, released this 27 3/4-inch walleye recently on Devils Lake while fishing with Gary Olson. Olson, who submitted the photo, said he and Shabert graduated from Grand ...

There are lots of ways to catch walleye. Although they do suspend at times and in certain waters like Lake Erie, in many cases, walleyes stick pretty tight to the bottom. Thus, you need a sinker to ...