Freshwater Fishing
Get a grip on fish growth rate
Fish growth rate is also essential to predicting the effect of harvest restrictions, like length limits and creel limits. […]
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Bass Fishing
Hooking it up – How to change hard bait hooks
Changing the factory hooks on your hard baits is an easy way to tweak your lure’s performance — and put more bass in the box. […]
Bass Fishing
Target lone cypress trees for big bass
Nick LeBrun knows big worms fished around lone cypress trees are the ticket for big bass on cypress lakes. […]
Bass Fishing
Finding lunker bass in August’s hot water
Dry conditions create clear water, which tends to push bass deeper into structure in Mississippi River oxbow lakes. […]
Bass Fishing
How to properly fish a Carolina rig
The best way to fish the Carolina rig is with a slow drag that keeps the weight in constant contact with the floor of the lake. […]
Bass Fishing
Make boat docks yield more bass
Docks are essentially emergent reefs of wood or concrete, and they provide the two things bass favor — shelter and food. […]
Bass Fishing
Summertime bass care
When the water warms above 75 degrees, there are three simple things bass anglers need to do to keep their catch alive. […]
Bass Fishing
Top public bass waters
May is a peak month of bass activity, and Mississippi has an abundance of public bass fishing waters near everybody. Be it a lake, a river or a reservoir, bass anglers should rejoice in the fact that big bass are hungry after the spawn. […]
Bass Fishing
Load up a bed with lures and get bit
Presenting multiple lures into a single bed can increase a fisherman’s chances of making a bass bite this month. […]
Bass Fishing
What triggers the largemouth bass spawn?
It’s that time of the year. The dogwoods are in bloom, the water is warming, the days are getting longer, and the bass are building nests and spawning. But what triggers the bass spawn? I doubt the blooming dogwoods put the bass in a romantic mood. Is it photoperiod? Temperature? […]
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Youngster’s catch bodes well for the Elite Series
When the 2017 Bassmaster Elite Series visits Barnett Reservoir the last weekend of the April, the 111 best bass fishermen in the world will be hard-pressed to match or beat the lunker posted in February’s B.A.S.S. Nation High School Open on the same waters. […]
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Boom! Add a pound to the Jeff Davis bass record
Remember that story on this website from early March about the new lake record 11.6-pound largemouth bass at Jeff Davis Lake?
Well, forget about it. […]