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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. […]

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. […]

Muddy-water bass fishing tactics

June 18, 2016 Andy Crawford

Mike McClelland said success under muddy-water conditions requires an understanding of how that nasty water moves into a lake. […]

Skipping jigs

June 16, 2016 Brian Cope

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. […]

When you see the bass schooling on Bogue Homa, you need to have a rod in your hand and be ready to start chunking and winding.

Take more than one rod to Bogue Homa Lake

June 16, 2016 Paul Elias

Don’t bass fish this month with only one rod or one lure — especially if you’re fishing Bogue Homa. […]