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Winter fishing can be both hard and easy for bass anglers. The hard part is trying to stay warm and keep your equipment from freezing up in the cold. The easy part is lure selection becomes much simpler because bass are lethargic in the winter so you can narrow down your choices to slower moving baits. Wearing the proper clothing …
Bass in the vast open water of lakes and reservoirs could be swimming anywhere in the wintertime. Unless you are on a lake filled with standing timber, visual clues are unavailable when searching for offshore bass in the winter. Good electronics will help you find open water bass by scanning for two underwater clues: baitfish schools and bottom structure. Finding …
The Googan Squad Bandito Bug is a 4” soft plastic craw with six kicking appendages, two antennas, and a bunch of big fish drawing power. When rigged and fished correctly, the Bandito Bug resembles baitfish or crawfish, both certified bass snacks. The body style and flapping appendages allow the Bandito Bug to easily swim and kick, creating water disturbance throughout …
Tying a bait directly to the main line coming off a reel’s spool is standard procedure for most fishing applications. However, specific applications where a leader line attached to the main line are required to catch fish. A leader is a length of line attached on one end to the eye of a lure or hook, and the other end …
The Baby Firework Super jig is a hard-hitting finesse jig created by two urban anglers Jay Pee Hey and Ryan Whitacre. The pair of bass fishing maniacs put their heads together and created a new finesse jig designed specifically for smallmouth bass swimming around Chicago’s lakefront. The duo wanted a jig with enough finesse to trick weary smallmouth, but with …
The 10,000 Fish Yoto Worm is a versatile soft plastic worm – with a cutting edge profile. The body is molded with ribbed edges and a tapered tail, for mouthwatering action and realistic texture. The Yoto Worm is designed with four hook channels down the body, for several rigging options. The Yoto Worm’s tickling tail end will help entice bites …
Catching a personal best bass requires some research, skill, intuition and a little bit of luck. Catching a personal best bass requires some research, skill, intuition, and a little bit of luck. I had a lot of luck in catching my personal best bass because I had an all-expense-paid trip to fish Mexico’s El Salto Lake, which is renowned as …
The Mystery Tackle Box Motherlode Bass Fishing Crate is available now at select Dick Sporting Good’s, and they are selling like hotcakes. This Motherlode Bundle is the ideal gift for bass anglers everywhere. Whether it’s for you or the lucky angler in your life, here are the answers to the need to know questions surrounding this unmatched bass fishing bundle. …
The standard bass jig has always been a staple bottom-bouncing lure for decades, but the lure became more versatile when savvy anglers started swimming it for suspended bass. The History Behind The Bait Back in the 1980’s, anglers in Alabama, Wisconsin, Arkansas and some other states started swimming a jig around aquatic vegetation to catch bass, I started swimming a …
Watch our guy Tyler Anderson showcase his approach to catching more bass around docks. From rod and reel breakdown to on the water explanations, Tyler will fill you in on the details that help him fill the boat with bass.Everyone knows that bass love to hang around boat docks, and the key to catching more dock dwelling bass is by …
If you watch the professionals’ land bass during a tournament, you will notice something missing. Landing fish with a net is a common practice among many anglers. When the Bassmaster Tournament Trail initiated a no net rule several years ago, it started a new trend among bass anglers. Smaller regional and local tournament circuits still allow nets and recreational anglers to use …
All anglers have that one dependable bait they lean on when things get tough. For trout anglers, it may be a feathered jig head or the old trusty inline spinner. When bass fishing gets tough, two rigs anglers are continually reaching for are a wacky rigged worms and the Ned Rig. Both of these finesse tactics seem to trigger strikes …
