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As a girl, she accompanied her parents to the BWCA and by age 16 she was working at Eastern Mountain Sports in Burnsville. Nelson grew up in Burnsville, the daughter of longtime Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness visitors Steve and Kathy Nelson. Ginny Nelson, with her parents, Steve and Kathy Nelson, owns Spirit of the Wilderness BWCA Outfitters and Outdoor Store in Ely. But often it's easier to locate walleyes on our bigger lakes that are known walleye producers - including Winnibigoshish, Leech, Cass and Bemidji.'' 'Some smaller lakes around Grand Rapids hold good numbers of walleyes. Experience will give you confidence while working through your options to find and catch walleyes.'' But there's no substitute for time on the water.

I have clients who have watched a lot of YouTube videos about walleye fishing, and that can help. Perhaps switch from a 1/4-ounce to a 1/8-ounce jig. If you're on a lake with a good walleye population and you're not catching fish, change locations or presentations. Water depth and temperature, the wind, location in the lake -these can help you find walleyes. Electronics are important, but you have to use your brain, too. 'To catch walleyes, pay attention to what's around you. Neustrom is a Minnesota Fishing Hall of Fame member.

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A year later he started guiding anglers in his free time, switching to full time in 2002 when he retired from law enforcement. A friend living in Grand Rapids, Minn., invited him to visit, and in 1979 he moved to that northern Minnesota city, hiring on as an Itasca County Sheriff's deputy. He was subsequently promoted to detective, but fishing was his passion and he guided part-time on Lake Geneva, Wis. Neustrom grew up in Chicago, where during one afternoon shift as a Chicago Police Department officer he was shot and seriously wounded and his partner was killed. But in 1979 he moved to northern Minnesota. In a former life, Tom Neustrom of Grand Rapids, Minn., was a Chicago Police Department officer.

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