It's crazy how life happens and things hit you like you'd never expect. Prior to Covid-19, I had all-but fizzled down my charter business to just about a half dozen trips or so a year, and the trips I did do were during slow months, last minute, and with flexible clients. So here's the scoop,...
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, all traditional organized walleye tournaments, such as the LEWT, MWC, and NWT, in the near future have been canceled.  On April 4th, Jason Fischer, tournament director of the LEWT, organized a ‘social distancing’ tournament among a group of elite walleye fisherman in the Lake Erie community.  The tournament was done in a...
by Julia (Juls) Davis Twenty Questions with the 2010 MWC Team of the Year Mike Knippenberg and Ryan Buddie Last year while I traveled the Midwest covering the MWC for Walleye Central’s Live Leader Board, I was fortunate to interview this team quite a bit since they...
Knippenberg, Buddie Win Cabela’s Masters Walleye Circuit Team of the Year Title by MWC Staff (Sep. 28, 2010 – Minnetonka, MN)… Ohioans Mike Knippenberg, of Hiram, and Ryan Buddie, of Lakewood, were crowned...
By D’Arcy Egan, The Plain Dealer  on October 25, 2012 at 5:24 PM, updated October 25, 2012 at 5:32 PM Ryan Buddie of North Ridgeville and partner Mike Knippenberg of Hiram finished third in the Cabela’s MWC World Walleye Championship on Oct. 18-20 on the Mississippi River...