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. […]
Bass may always relate to cooler deeper water in the summer, but they will go shallow where the oxygen is plentiful. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Mike McClelland said success under muddy-water conditions requires an understanding of how that nasty water moves into a lake. […]
If you’ve ever seen an angler that really knows how to skip a jig under a boat dock, you’ll see why they are so good at catching bass around these structures. […]
Don’t bass fish this month with only one rod or one lure — especially if you’re fishing Bogue Homa. […]
Fishing kayaks come in two flavors, sit-on-top and cockpit boats.
Very few anglers are happy fishing from a cockpit style boat. Sit-on-tops allow more freedom of movement and have scuppers to let water drain. […]
Learn the best, most-comfortable way to strip and respool line and stick with it to make it less of a chore. […]
It might be hard for old school bass anglers to grasp, but there’s a bass tournament going on right now, in cyberspace. Anglers don’t show up for weigh-ins, they don’t even bring fish to the ramp. […]
Submerged vegetation is to bass as politics is to lying — you won’t find one without the other. […]
If Caleb Sumrall is punching particularly thick vegetation, his preferred Missile D Bomb can begin hanging up. […]
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