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Frog colors vary greatly, so try different looks to dial in what works best.

Lipstick on a frog

May 25, 2012 David A. Brown

Double nickels, 55 — that’s the water temperature mark that Jackson angler Alfred Williams eagerly awaits each spring. […]

Justin Giles displays a lunker bass caught on a Scum Frog.

Pete Ponds spotted a flash and swirl that sent a school of small fry skittering across the top of the water. The Bassmaster Elite Series pro instantly sailed a Scumdog Walker Frog past the small fry and started working the lure back in a walk the dog pattern.

Just as it passed over the small fry, a bass crushed the lure and headed down toward deep water. Ponds dropped his rod tip, reeled in the slack and snapped the rod back, driving the Owner hooks deep into the jaws of the lunker bass and turning it toward the boat. […]

Dropshots can be an effective tool for probing shallow cover like laydowns.

Get the drop

May 14, 2012 David A. Brown

When bass respond to factors such as weather or fishing pressure by playing hard to get, anglers can often tempt those tough bites with a dropshot. The basic rig is pretty simple, and the action, well, there’s not much to it. […]

With these 10 spots provided by guide Brad Whitehead, take your pick of how you want to catch Pickwick crappie.

Crappie Hotspot Series – Pickwick Lake

May 7, 2012 Phillip Gentry

In the early 1970s, a young bass angler by the name of Bill Dance, hosting his own TV show on national television, brought Pickwick Lake to the forefront of American anglers’ attention. Each week, his television audience tuned in to watch Dance battle huge smallmouth bass from the high-bluffed reservoir. Quickly […]

Although they aren’t all this big, Phil King is frequently able to put his anglers on big channel cats like this one during May when the fish are up shallow.

Cats in the cracks

May 2, 2012 Chris Ginn

As much as he likes to catch giant catfish, there’s not much that makes four-time national catfish champion angler Phil King from Corinth happier than watching a 7-foot Cabela’s Fish Eagle spinning rod double over under the weight of a feisty channel cat.

And to hear him tell it, his happiest months of the year are April, May and June because that’s when the channel cats start backing up into the myriad cracks and crevices along Pickwick’s multitude of craggy rock banks. […]