Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “bass”
Cold water bass fishing can result in either feast of famine for many anglers. Bass are going to always bite less often in cool water but it also can be the time of year the big ones seem to be caught! Bass are cold blooded by nature so their activity levels are directly impacted by climate changes. As water temperature …
A high-dollar bass boat rigged with high-tech electronics is the rage of bass fishing today, but there is a less expensive way to catch bass: Bank fishing. Bank Fishing Advantages If you can find the right location, you can catch bass fishing from the bank better than you can from a boat. Some of the advantages of fishing from the …
Clear water bass fishing can be intimidating but once you find the right presentations and techniques it can be an absolute blast. Imagine a picture-perfect day for fishing. The sun is high, but not too hot. There are a few scattered clouds and the lake is perfectly clear. You see bass swimming everywhere from the shallows to the deep weed …
The world’s most expensive lure is The Roman Made Mother. It goes for $439.99. Or right around 73 bags of Googan Baits. 4 new flippin’ rods. 146 Karl’s Koozies (or 210 if you have a club membership, just saying). Anyways, you get the point. This lure is the most expensive lure IN THE WORLD. How’s He Do That? I have no …
If you’ve been a subscriber for as long as Karl VonDibble, you’ve likely piled up one heck of a collection of empties. If you’ve been wondering what to do with your empty boxes, allow Karl VonDibble, CFO of Karl’s Bait & Tackle, to give you a few ideas. What do you do with your empties? And what other ideas should …
The jointed stickbait is a lure that continues to produce fish. Some lures attract more fishermen than they do fish and eventually become novelty items for lure collectors. Others catch boat loads of bass, but mass production and excessive use makes these lures less effective when bass become conditioned to them. Then there’s the lures designed for other species, which …
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Three different searchbaits to help you locate bass. Bass do a lot of roaming in the fall in pursuit of baitfish so you need to throw lures capable of tracking down the roamers. Search baits allow you to employ high speed retrieves and cover a lot of water when bass are in their fall feeding frenzy and following baitfish schools. …
The versatility of Neko rig fishing makes it an ideal technique for pros and amateurs alike. A fishing trip with my wife also proved the Neko rig is one of the simplest tactics for novices to catch bass. While fishing around docks on my home waters of Lake of the Ozarks, I set up my wife with a Neko rig and told …
The inline spinner for bass is a classic technique that still helps produce fish today. It has happened to nearly every angler who has ever flung a spinnerbait. Bass just smash their spinnerbait on nearly every cast and then the next day the fish totally ignore the blade bait. You can downsize your spinnerbait to draw strikes from these turned-off …
Throwing swimbaits for bass can be fished from top to bottom in clear water if it is rigged correctly. The beauty of a paddletail swimbait is that it can be rigged different ways to make it fall vertically with its head down or swim horizontally. It can also be rigged weedless for fishing around cover or with the hook exposed …
Learning how to fish a crankbait properly can make a huge difference. Seeing bass pros work a crankbait is like watching magicians perform. The only difference is magicians use sleight of hand to make objects disappear, while the pros’ magic begins after their crankbait vanishes in the watery depths. Here are five tips the pros rely on that will help …
