Apr 17, 2025
How to Catch Spawning Bass
Spring is a wonderful time for bass fishing, or a terrible time, depending on how in tune you are with the fish movements. Fish behavior is constantly…
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Bass Fishing Tips
Bass fishing tips covering seasonal patterns, fish behavior, locations, and proven techniques.
Jul 26, 2024
Catching Bass in July: How-to!
When it comes to bass fishing in July, there are a lot of similarities to June, but a more technical approach is often required to maximize bites.…
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Jun 6, 2024
Bass By Month Series: How to Catch Bass in June
Previous Post: Catch Bass in May June is, at least in the opinion of the author of this piece, the single best month to fish throughout the whole year.…
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May 28, 2024
Bass By Month Series: How to Catch Bass in May
May is often a transitional month in bass fishing. For obvious reasons, the spawn happens later the farther north you travel, but in many places…
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Dec 18, 2023
How to Catch Bass in The Winter
Winter is a time a lot of anglers hang it up for the year. The cold water temperatures have the metabolism of the fish at the lowest it will be all year,…
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Sep 28, 2023
Five Baits to Catch Bass in the Fall
Fall bass fishing can sometimes be feast or famine. It’s a time of year defined by aggressive fish and a certain amount of randomness. When you find…
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Jul 6, 2023
How to Find Bass in the Summer
Summer is my favorite time to catch bass. It’s the most predictable season of the year. Bass are just eating, they’re in big groups, and their mood is…
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Nov 17, 2022
5 Things You Must Know to Catch Bass in the Winter
Winter is the toughest time to catch bass. Full stop. Many weekend anglers just put their boats away this time of year and opt for the vest and rifle,…
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Aug 15, 2022
How to Pick The Right Jig Trailer
When I first started bass fishing, I was wary of learning how to fish a jig. They’re kind of inherently more complicated than a texas rig or shaky head…
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Jun 28, 2022
Everything You Need to Know About Fishing Roadbeds
Roadbeds are my personal favorite type of offshore structure to catch bass off of. They’re how I learned how to catch bass offshore and one of the first…
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Mar 15, 2022
How to Catch Post-Cold Front Bass
Welp, here we go again. It seems like this happens every time, doesn’t it. A great week of warm spring weather would seem to usher in shallow, active…
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Feb 11, 2022
Tracking The Bass’ Prespawn Migration
The prespawn migration that bass undertake every spring comes with its challenges, but figuring it out can mean the best day of fishing of your…
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Feb 11, 2022
The Best Crankbaits for Every Season
Crankbaits can catch fish in all seasons if you have the right bait and the right…
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Nov 18, 2021
Four Places to Find Fall Bass
Fall can be a sneaky tough time of year to catch bass. Most of the articles you read online describe it as a hot time because of how many aggressive bass…
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Sep 14, 2021
How to Read a Topographic Map
Topographic maps, or topo maps for short, are an incredible resource for anglers. Today, nearly every lake in America has a detailed map with one-foot…
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Jul 26, 2021
Everything You Need to Know About Fishing Points
What is a point? A point is an area of shallower water that sticks out into areas of deeper water. It’s the most common form of structure on most lakes,…
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May 11, 2021
Everything you need to know about river channels
If you’ve ever read anything about fishing on the internet, you’ve certainly come across someone talking about a river channel. “The channel” is a…
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May 11, 2021
Four Different Reasons A Bass Will Bite Your Bait
This might surprise you, but there are actually a number of different reasons why a bass will eat a bait. Understanding why you’re getting a bite is an…
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Feb 27, 2021
4 Strategies for Dealing with Fishing Pressure
Fishing pressure is a fact of life, and it sucks. Trust me, I live 20 minutes from Shearon Harris in North Carolina, the lake that cracked the top five…
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Feb 26, 2021
Five Places to Find Bass in the Prespawn
Prespawn is defined as the time between when a bass first leaves its wintertime home and when it actually initiates the act of spawning. This can be an…
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Nov 6, 2020
The Key to Catching Fall Bass is Keeping An Open Mind
Fall is a much-hyped time in bass fishing. With the temperatures dropping and the dog days of summer finally in the rearview mirror, bass get their feed…
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Aug 12, 2020
What is a thermocline, and how does it affect bass?
What is a thermocline? A thermocline is a thin layer in a body of water that forms at a certain depth, in which water temperature changes at a rate…
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May 19, 2020
Understanding The Crayfish – With Biologist Zachary Loughman
Bass love to eat crayfish. This is no secret. Crayfish biologist Zachary Loughman has noted during studies just how much the smallmouth bass in his home…
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May 19, 2020
The Complete Guide to Pond Fishing
It’s an unfortunate fact that bass fishing anywhere near the highest level requires significant monetary input. Buying and maintaining a boat, traveling,…
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May 19, 2020
A Three-Step Method to Learning Offshore Bass Fishing
There’s a whole lot of content on the internet trying to teach people how to fish offshore. Most of it is not very good. Successfully approaching an…
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May 19, 2020
Don’t Doubt The Do-Nothing Bank
They don’t call them “do-nothing banks” for a flattering reason. A do-nothing bank is exactly what it sounds like, a bank with nothing on it. No rock, no…
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May 19, 2020
5 Baits That Will Catch Bass in Any Pond
1. Wacky Rig Slap a hook into the middle of a stick worm and you’ve got an easy wacky rig setup. It’s the easiest bait around to fish and it is an…
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May 19, 2020
Temperature or Day Length? What Makes Bass Spawn?
Bass spawn in the springtime. This is known. Anyone who has ever fished a day in their life knows this. But why? What makes this goofy looking creature…
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