Bass Fishing Archives - Page 40 of 86

June 19, 2026

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. […]

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. […]

One aspect of summer bass fishing that is attractive to Terry Bates is that he often finds a hot spot that will produce more than one quality bite.

Stratified strategy — Tips for more summer bass

July 1, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Terry Bates cast his crankbait across a submerged ledge a few feet off a sandbar and cranked it down. A Delta river bass smashed his offering, and then exploded through the water’s surface like a missile. […]

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. […]

Terry Bates often finds fish along edges of shallow and deep water in the summer, knowing that these areas give bass access to the best dissolved oxygen levels and the coolest temperatures. Grass lines are perfect, since the vegetation can provide cover (shade) and cooler temperatures.

Bates: Fish edges for summertime bass

June 30, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Bass may always relate to cooler deeper water in the summer, but they will go shallow where the oxygen is plentiful. […]

Guide Brad Chappell (right) puts his August clients on stripers by trolling just above the thermocline near rising bottom contours and bottom structure.

Summer ideal for striper trolling

June 30, 2016 Phillip Gentry

Flat line trolling of artificial baits is a very effective, often overlooked method of striped bass fishing. It’s a great search tool on Barnett Reservoir where locating the line-sided brutes is more than half the battle. […]

LiveTarget Sunfish

June 27, 2016 Don Shoopman

Apparently startled, certainly rattled, a small, injured bream swam to the surface, zigged and zagged in the scattered grass, jumped a little and landed sideways before continuing to move erratically until it settled back into the water to meet its fate. […]