During the Spring season, bass are feeding heavily at nearly every depth and attack a variety of lures as the water warms. Moving lures such as crankbaits and spinnerbaits produce most of the time, but when the water temperature lingers below 60 degrees and during cold-front situations later in the spring, bass prefer slower presentations. While soft plastics or jigs …
Early Spring Trout Fishing Tips That Work For Any Angler
Streams are usually flowing strong with higher water levels in the early spring due to melting snow and rain runoff so you can usually catch rainbow and brown trout on action lures such as Panther Martin’s, Blue Fox spinners, small jerkbaits and crankbaits, and spoons. I prefer throwing these lures on spinning tackle with 4-pound test low visibility green monofilament …
7 Winter Fishing Baits You’ll Need In Your Tackle Box
Fishing can get tough in those winter months. But, if you are lucky enough to live in a place where your lakes don’t freeze over, here are seven lures that will help you with some awesome winter fishing. Remember to focus on the regular winter spots, including moving water, deep holes, and the tailraces below a dam. Don’t Look Past …
How You Should Be Fishing Soft Plastic Craws During The Prespawn
Walking around your local tackle shop, it’s an easy lesson to learn that bass love to eat craws, and so it stands to reason that’s why bass anglers love fishing craws. Look at how many baits are shaped or painted to resemble the little freshwater crustaceans. You don’t have to be a fisheries biologist to figure out what you should …
3 Late Fall Fishing Tips To Catch You More Fish
Layer up put on the wool socks, and stash a few hand warmers in your pockets. It’s time to go fishing! But where do you start? If you follow the three tips below, you will undoubtedly put more trophy bass in the boat this fall. 1. Timing It Right While Late Fall Fishing When you go fishing, you want to make the …
Lures, Rigs, And Jigs That Crush Walleye In The Fall
A fall walleye is a hungry walleye. And anglers willing to put in the effort each Autumn can reap the rewards of the year’s best fishing. Usually, in early October, walleye begin transitioning to predicable areas in groups, fattening up for winter together as they gorge on meals, generally consisting of minnows or baitfish. For lake walleye, the first fall …
Fall Fishing For Catfish: 10 Tips You Need To Know
When the weather cools in the fall, the action gets hot for catfish. Some catfish experts claim fall is one of the best times to catch catfish because the fish can be caught on a variety of methods. Here are 10 tips you need to know to catch more catfish during autumn. 10) Bait Choice Channel catfish will eat a …
Fall Fishing For Crappie: 10 Tips You Need To Know
Leaves turning colors and air temperatures dropping signal the start of the crappie fall feeding festival. When autumn arrives, crappie snap out of their summer patterns and gorge on baitfish in preparation for a long, cold winter. The fish migrate from their deep summer haunts to the shallow flats’ dining areas before returning to deep water later in the season. Anglers …
Fall Fishing For Trout: 10 Tips You Need To Know
Cool fall weather provides relief for both trout anglers and trout. The summer heat makes it tough for anglers to fish in the middle of the day, but the cooler fall temperatures allow them to enjoy pursuing trout any time of the day. Trout need lots of oxygen and the amount of oxygen water holds decreases the warmer it gets, …
Fall Fishing For Bluegill: 10 Tips You Need To Know
Bluegill have a voracious appetite but a small mouth, so you need to tempt them with things like little jigs and spinners. Cast lures next to the weed lines, docks, or wood cover to catch bigger bluegill. During the summer, you can find an abundance of small bluegill in hot shallow water, but big bluegill seek cooler temperatures, often found in the depths. However, …
Bass Fishing Tips For Catching Bigs In The Late Summer Period
For most anglers, late summer is the toughest time to fish. Accurate, timely bass fishing tips are harder to find in the dog days, and for good reason. It’s hot and miserable for the anglers, and the bass are scattered, beaten down by angler pressure, and downright difficult to catch. Late-summer blues got you down? Try one of these bass …
5 Proven Pond Baits For Catching Bass In The Summer
Here are five of the best baits to throw in your local pond during the summer months. Alabama angler, Andrew Nordbye hits a local pond with 5 of his favorite bass baits for fishing little lakes and small ponds during the warmer months. Andrew breaks down where, when, and how to fish each bait style while he peruses the bank …