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Top ambush spots for creek bass

August 15, 2016 Michael O. Giles

Shoals: Many shallow water streams, creeks and rivers are filled with rocky bottoms and many of these have rocky shoals or small rapid areas that are perfect ambush spots for bass. […]

Pitching presentations allow anglers to precisely deliver a jig or Texas-rigged bait from a distance.

Delivery methods for bass-fishing laydowns

August 15, 2016 David A. Brown

One of the most-common angling misnomers is the general lumping of flipping and pitching into one homogenous image. […]

When the big stripers are schooling and busting shad on the surface at Barnett Reservoir, casting a buck-tail jig is an easy way to catch them.

Earning your stripes — Best bets for Ross Barnett stripers

August 1, 2016 Phillip Gentry

If you were to go out looking for someone to sit down and talk with about striper fishing on Barnett Reservoir, you’d have a hard time. Most of those who catch them, typically by accident, hate them or at the least don’t care for them. Those who do fish for them regularly run when they see you coming. […]

For interior work, use shallow diving crankbaits to probe among branches.

Pick it apart — How to fish laydowns

August 1, 2016 David A. Brown

Wood — once a tree, felled by man or nature, it’s now a bass fortress and a structure to be negotiated, encroached upon, invaded by those seeking a face-to-face with said fish. […]

Be patient and catch more bass on topwater

July 23, 2016 Brian Cope

Anglers will drastically improve their hookup ratio, said Deschenes, if they wait until the feel the weight of the fish before setting the hook. […]

Even in the heat of summer there are bass that remain shallow, and frogs will get the bites.

Hoppers call in summer bass

July 22, 2016 Dan Kibler

Bass fishermen have a lot of different lures to choose as their go-to baits at different times of year and for different fishing situations.

But it’s a good bet that there aren’t many like North Carolina bass pro Dylan Fulk, who reaches for a soft-plastic frog. […]

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. […]

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. […]

Dustin Frucci holds up two of the stripers caught on Barnett Reservoir. The all-day and half-the-night trip started with largemouth, picked up with stripers and ended with catfish under a nearly full moon.

Wonderful night tops great day on The Rez

July 11, 2016 Bobby Cleveland

Descending gloriously, with an orange brilliance over the Natchez Trace, the sun may have been setting but not on our day of fishing on Barnett Reservoir. […]

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. […]

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. […]