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Chart a year of your bass fishing and you’ll likely have a graph marked full of peaks and valleys. Many factors influence the ups and downs of bass fishing, including rising lake levels. By keying on a bass’ movements during this condition, you will increase your success rates and straighten out those chart lines on a higher plateau. Fishing The …
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 Mepp’s or Blue Fox spinners, small jerkbaits and crankbaits, spoons and Mepps Wooly Worm Spin Flies. I prefer throwing these lures on spinning tackle with 4-pound …
Some of best spring bass lures are crankbaits in crawfish colors such as brown and orange for bass in the spring because bass forage heavily on crustaceans during the season. I know red lipless crankbaits produced bass in the grass lakes of the South during the spring, but I never really tried them on my home waters of Lake of …
If you’re an angler stuck at home but still eager to scratch that fishing itch, this is the list for you. We broke down five of the best fishing tasks any angler can do from the comfort of their home. Here are five productive fishing ideas to dial you in for that next fishing adventure, whenever it may be! Learn …
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 …
When the dogwoods bloom, the crappie are biting. There’s a lot of truth to that saying throughout most of the country since dogwood blossoming time usually coincides with the crappie spawn in the spring. The warmer climate in the southern half of the country triggers crappie into spawning earlier in that region, but the northern half of the country warms …
Prespawn fishing is prime time for targeting big bass. They’re at their seasonal heaviest, they’re up shallow, and they can be extremely aggressive – as they’re actively trying to put on weight before the spawn. If you get on the right school, you can have a day to remember. The flipside of that coin is that pre-spawn bass can be …
Hooks impaled in your skin, cuts from a fish’s sharp fins, and other fishing-related wounds can be immediately treated by carrying some basic medical supplies. Accidents happen on the water so you need to be prepared for those mishaps by carrying a first-aid kit to help you treat minor injuries and keep you fishing. One of my recent fishing trips …
In Southern Illinois, the United States Army Corps of Engineers is requesting recycled Christmas trees from locals who celebrate to make the fishing on Rend Lake better. By bundling Christmas trees together and weighing the bundles down at their bases, usually with cement blocks, the engineers make brush piles that are then dumped into the lake. The underwater structure serves …
Like in fishing, scrolling through Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace brings on the thrill of the hunt; I get genuinely excited scanning at unique versions of things that I am never going to buy. Call me crazy, but I like to know what’s out there. Fishing is my hobby, job, and the genesis of almost every search entry on Craigslist, and …
Fisherman are ALWAYS hard to please when searching for the perfect fishing gifts. There are so many different types of fishing it’s hard to know what to get, and when to get it. Most gift-givers try to get around this by buying generic gift cards to sporting goods retailers. But, that’s impersonal and just plain boring. Mystery Tackle Box has solved …
The holidays are here again and finding the perfect fishing gift is not always easy…until now and we’re happy to help! Mystery Tackle Box is the perfect fishing gift for the fisherman in your life. Each month, your favorite angler will receive a box full of the latest fishing lures selected by our team of experts along with detailed information …
