Thousands of people will head to Minnesota lakes for the fishing opener. They'll carry tackle boxes stuffed with shiny, sparkling, colorful lures guaranteed to attract that wily walleye. But a Moorhead State University researcher says perhaps anglers should be more concerned about how the lures smell.
Experienced anglers swear by certain combinations of shape and color.
Brian Wisenden thinks a much more effective lure would be loaded with piscatorial pheromones. Wisenden has been traveling to scientific gatherings around the world to talk about his research on how well fish smell, and how they use smell as a primary means of communication. S.E. Minnesota - Trout streams here offer some of the country's best fly fishing for trout. The Root River is my favorite stream. Branches of it offer small stream fishing for wild brown trout.