Category: Brad Wiegmann
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Casting for Crappie
By Brad Wiegmann When it comes to catching crappie there are several techniques you can use. Of course spider rigging is popular along with long lining. However, just casting for crappie would be the number one way with crappie anglers. Now there is more to casting for crappie than flipping the bail and raring back…
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Catching More and Bigger Stripers
By Brad Wiegmann Striped bass are fast growing, voracious predators always searching for the next meal. Often schooling in packs, stripers can be caught with live bait and artificial lures. In forage rich reservoirs stripers flourish and large populations thrive while growing quickly to trophy size.
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Secret Schooling Bass Lures
By Brad Wiegmann Bass are exploding around your boat frothing the surface chasing shad everywhere. It would be impossible not to catch one, but that is exactly what is happening. You can’t get a sniff, nibble or strike on any of your favorite topwater lures.
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The Perfect Bass Rod
By Brad Wiegmann Finding the right bass fishing rod can be challenging. An angler has to decide on blank action, power, rod components, reel seat , rod grip and price. It can be overwhelming, but how far would you go to find the perfect bass fishing rod?
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Catch More Fish Drop Shotting
By Brad Wiegmann More and more fish are being caught by anglers drop shotting. The rise in popularity and success anglers are having catching fish is the direct result of advancements in electronics. Pioneering the way is DownScan, SideScan and Spotlight Scan allowing anglers to see cover and structure with picture-like images.
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Ultimate Catfishing Adventure
By Brad Wiegmann Common sense and sound judgment was far from any of our minds as we slipped our kayaks and canoes gently into Wheeler Lake on the Tennessee River. It seemed our sensibility was clouded with visions of catching gigantic catfish while fishing from only a long narrow craft powered by only a paddle.…
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Advanced Football Jig Fishing
By Brad Wiegmann It’s scary how successful some anglers are at fishing with a football jig. Not only do they catch stringers of quality bass, but big ones too. However, they just don’t cast it out and hope a bass will strike it.
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Waking Up Big Bass
By Brad Wiegmann It’s not like bass wake up on the wrong side of the bed every morning after the spawn, but they do. For bass postspawn is a time for some R&R after the ritual of reproduction has completed. The last thing they want is a lure waking across the surface above them.
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Spinning for Trout
By Brad Wiegmann Fly fishing for trout is greatly overrated. Sure the complexity and art of casting maybe intriguing to a few, but should trout fishing really be so challenging? That’s probably why so many anglers use spinning tackle instead when fishing for trout.
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Fishing Soft Plastics and Alabama Rigs
By Brad Wiegmann Fishing is complicated. There are thousands of lures and hundreds of jig heads to rig them on. It’s frustrating. Selecting the best lure and jig head for the right technique can be overwhelming. In addition to figuring out the right weight of the jig head along with hook size and style.