Category: Largemouth Bass
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Spring Bass Fishing on Waters That Warm Fastest
By Andrew Ragas Spring bass fishing has always been personally challenging, engaging, and exciting for myself and guests throughout the years. More heavyweights tipping the scales between 4 and 8 lbs. are caught and released in May and early June than most months combined. Catching them consistently however, isn’t easy. While their movements from ice…
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Early-Season Jerkbait Bass
By Steve Pennaz This past February, on a bitter cold morning better suited for hot coffee and a roaring fire, I met Elite BASS Pro Chad Grigsby at a just-opened Perkins to outline our plans for taping an episode of “Lake Commandos.”
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Going Light for Largemouth Bass
By Jim Gronaw Bass fishing has been very good to us the past spring seasons of 2014 and 2015. After what seemed like an eternity for some warm weather, we finally got a break around mid April, both years, and the weather then stabilized, keeping water temps in the 60 degree range. This quickly pushed…
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Aggressive Tactics for Prespawn Largemouth Bass
By Joseph Alfe As the water warms into the low 50 degree range across the upper Midwest, largemouth bass will shift into a more aggressive pre spawn stance. Gangs of bass will begin massing and patrolling just outside likely spawning areas, such as the mouths of smaller bays and along the shallow first breaks. Weather…
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Musky Tactics for Trophy Bass
By Joseph Alfe In part one of this series, we explored using bass lures and techniques to catch muskie. Here, we turn the tables and go where few dare to go and that is, to use muskie baits and tactics to catch bass. The thing is, using big baits can get you big bass. How…
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How Gerald Swindle Approaches a Lake He’s Never Seen Before
Contributed Story Alabama’s Gerald Swindle is in his 18th year as a pro angler. He’s competed from California to Vermont and won more than $2 Million dollars. Yet he had never been to famous Lake Fork until he began practicing for the Toyota Texas Bass Classic in May of 2014.
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A Practical Guide to Drop Shotting
By Robert Conley & Robert Fuchs Long thought of as a finesse technique but often misunderstood, it’s a multi species – go to – super hero. Over the years this simple rig has produced countless fish, often in the trophy range and has established a solid pole position in our arsenal. Tried, tested and succeeded…
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Bass Tactics for Muskie
By Joseph Alfe In the Muskie world of late, the battle cry has been “Go big or go home,” and for sure, supersizing your baits (and the tackle needed to handle them) has, in my opinion, accounted for the deluge of supersized fish being caught in recent years. But like any tactic, it is not…
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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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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.