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May 2, 2026

Focus on bridges for summer bass

July 19, 2016 Andy Crawford

Bass pile up around deep-water points and ledges, but one of the most-overlooked structures comes in the form of bridge pilings. […]

Terry Bates pinpoints bass suspended around trees in deep water, where he flips and pitches tubes to lure explosive strikes.

Cool Carolina tubing tips

July 15, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Chucky Hamrick is a fan of the magnum tubes in the summer, but not in the traditional sense.

“I like to Carolina-rig tubes,” Hamrick said. “I’ll use the magnum tubes on a Carolina rig and put rattles in them, and they’ll float higher and they mimic small shad. Sometimes a slow-falling tube will be just what a bass needs to entice it into biting. […]

Give Terry Bates a well-defined edge of grass, and he can usually coax a bass into striking either a crankbait or a twin-prop topwater lure.

How to crank grass

July 15, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Chucky Hamrick also cranks grass, something few anglers ever do now days. […]

Chucky Hamrick will look for anything to bang his crankbait against, and that erratic and loud retrieve attracts big bass.

Out of tune — A different crankbait tactic

July 15, 2016 Michael O. Giles

While many anglers constantly tune their crankbaits to run straight, Stonewall’s Chucky Hamrick takes a slightly different approach when the occasion calls for it. […]

Don’t look for Stonewall’s Chucky Hamrick in deep water, even in the summer. He stays shallow and it sure works for him.

Texas-rig tubes

July 15, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Texas-rigging is a great option when working shallow cover, Stonewall’s Chucky Hamrick said. […]

Laydowns like this partially submerged top make perfect ambush points for suspended bass in the willows on river lakes. Bates will work every piece of visible cover with magnum tubes when the bite is slow.

Tips for going shallow

July 15, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Chucky Hamrick of Stonewall is kind of like a shallower version of Bates. […]

Take a finesse-oriented Senko, add a bullet weight to the nose to give bass a different look.

Other heavy finesse bass-fishing tactics

July 15, 2016 David A. Brown

Drop-shots aren’t the only finesse rigs that can be beefed up to provide bass a bite-enducing curve ball. […]

How to get bottom rigs unhooked when bass fishing

July 15, 2016 David A. Brown

If the heavy finesse strategy has a hang-up, then we’ve punned our way into the explanation — hang-ups, snags, entanglements. […]

Bright crankbaits, like a chartreuse with a blue back, will produce in the summer, our two hot-weather bass experts will tell you.

Breaking point

July 15, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Terry Bates looks for breaks, ledges and points 8 to 12 feet deep where he finds a drop with deep water running close to a point. […]

Fish a frog early in the day and you’ll likely get tagged by a nice Okatibbee bass.

Okatibbee fun – This lake offers a lot of options

July 14, 2016 Paul Elias

I’m picking Okatibbee just north of Meridian to fish in July because it offers an early morning topwater bite, a good mid-morning technique and a tactic we can use to finish off the day. […]

Pulling a small worm behind a rumbling Carolina rig defines heavy finesse.

Opposites attract — Keys to ‘heavy finesse’ bass fishing

July 1, 2016 David A. Brown

In the word association game, “finesse” and “heavy” are not typically connected. However, there exists a strategic melding of the two concepts in which “heavy finesse” tactics can yield big results in the bass-fishing world. […]

Bass love to hang out in dark shadows, so make repeated casts to those areas.

Hot bass in cool shadows

July 1, 2016 John J. Woods

So, why do you think nearly everyone at the beach is sitting under a sun umbrella in July? Highway workers are wearing big brim hats with cooler wraps around their necks. Roofers, well, they are just sweating it off. […]