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A spotted bass’ looks can certainly be deceiving. At first glance, it can easily be mistaken for its largemouth bass cousin; however, on closer inspection you’ll find a spotted bass have subtle differences than a largemouth including a rough patch on its tongue, an upper jaw that doesn’t extend much beyond the back of its eye and rows of dark …
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When you are fishing, your hooks are always in the water so hooks should be rustproof. That is true while you are fishing and the hooks are in water for only a short time. Unfortunately hooks exposed to moisture for extended periods will rust. How Do You Keep A Fishing Hook From Rusting? A quick chemistry lesson teaches us that …
When the summer heat make fishing tough for bass, trout and other game fish, you can usually count on panfish such as bluegill and other sunfish to provide hot summertime action. Bass and bluegill are both members of the sunfish family and have about the same favored temperature ranges where their digestive systems function best and the oxygen content in …
When the heat is on during summertime, many game fish are vulnerable to the bathwater temperatures of our fisheries throughout the country.Most game fish can tolerate and remain in shallow hot water for short periods of time but fish are cold-blooded and are unable to regulate their body temperature so they are influenced by the temperature of the water. The …
Fishing with a baitcaster allows you to make the most accurate casts of any type of reel. However picking out backlashes in a baitcaster can be frustrating enough to cause some anglers to quit using the reels. Backlashes occur when your lure slows down during or after a cast, but the spool keeps spinning, which results in a tangled mess …
When the summer heat raises water temperatures into the bathwater range, a topwater bait is the least likely lure most bass anglers would choose then. Although bass can seek cooler temperatures in deeper water, some remain near the surface to feed on schooling baitfish while others stay shallow in the shade of heavy cover and ambush any prey swimming nearby …
When the recreational boat traffic becomes too unbearable for fishing my home lake, I seek refuge on the smallmouth bass streams in Missouri. Floating a smallmouth stream provides the opportunity of having a real good outing in the middle of the day in the heat of summer. I have noticed fishing patterns on the smallmouth waterways are about the same …
10,000 Fish Sukoshi Bug The Sukoshi Bug from 10,000 Fish is a minimalist, finesse creature bait. The design features a ribbed body made from Stretch-X Plastic, topped of with 6 flapping appendages near the head. The downsized body and tantalizing appendages will make it your favorite ned rig bait. Stretch-X plastic is just as buoyant as it is durable, and …
Paying attention to nature signs can turn a dismal bass fishing outing into a productive trip. Picking up clues from various terrestrial or aquatic sources can help you determine what the bass are doing on your favorite waters.Awareness of water and weather conditions and what your lure is doing are keys to bass fishing but awareness of what is going …
The greatest player of all time does it again! Michael Jordan just pulled in a 442 lb Blue Marlin off the shores of North Carolina. In addition to Sir Airness, North Carolina is home to the annual Big Blue Rock Marlin Tournament. Spanning eight days and involving hundreds of anglers, the Big Blue Rock Marlin Tournament is considered by many …
The first time I heard the term “junk fishing” was when I was covering Bassmaster Opens and the anglers weighing in bass said they caught their fish that way. I assumed they were fishing all the debris that collects in pockets and were punching their lures through that junk mat. However, when I interviewed some of those anglers for my …
