Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “cold water”
While fair-weather anglers stay huddled in the warmth of their homes, hard-core anglers endure winter hardships because they know lunker bass can be coaxed into biting this time of year. A lack of fishing pressure and a need to eat during the winter makes usually wary bass more susceptible to the offering from anglers willing to tolerate freezing fingers and …
When the water is cold, a slow presentation is the key to catching bass. Bass are a warm-water species so the fish tend to move a lot slower in cold water throughout the winter and early spring. Enticing a sluggish bass to bite in cold water requires using a slow-moving lure but not necessarily a jig or soft plastics. Cold-water …
Hair jigs are like the grandfather of silicone bass jigs anglers love to fish with today. Rarely do you overhear a bass angler remark: “yea caught em’ pitching a hair jig today” or, “landed all my good keepers skipping hair jigs under docks.” Unfortunately the old fashion hair jig isn’t fished as much as its more popular silicone predecessor. Though …
The scientific name of the yellow perch is Perca flavescens, which in Latin means “gold-colored perch”, which is an accurate assessment of their appearance. However, the “gold” in their Latin name could also be referring to their gold-status as a table fish – you’ll be hard pressed to find a fish in freshwater more delicious than the yellow perch. In …
