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 ...

The most famous Minnesota invention was not water skis (1922). Nor was it packaged cake mix (1947), crisp crust frozen pizza (1979) or even Post-it notes (1980). It was the Lindy Rig, which doubtless ...

Rigging was made popular in Minnesota by a couple of Chicago boys named Ron and Al Lindner, two brothers with a knack for catching fish and teaching others how to catch fish. One of their favorite ...

Forty years ago two brothers invented a live-bait rig that would revolutionize walleye fishing. The brothers were Al and Ron Lindner and the rig was the Lindy Rig, the now-legendary product that has ...

GAY — Live-bait rigging, a time-honored technique for walleyes, seems to have faded from popularity in recent years. Most guys fishing crawlers troll with spinner rigs these days, and, from what I can ...

GARRISON, Minn. — Ted Takasaki didn’t grow up in Minnesota and didn’t fish much as a kid. His family didn’t even own a boat. "When we fished, we fished from shore," he said. Not so anymore. Late the ...