Here’s our bass fishing tips and guides.
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 them, it can be an unforgettable day of fishing. When you don’t, you’ll be swearing that there is no life left beneath the surface. We’ve covered finding them,…
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 pretty consistent. If you can find them, you can usually catch them. Here we’re breaking the process of finding them. Good bass habitat in the summer features…
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, but if you’re as committed to catching bass as we are, you see winter less as a cold, dreary time where the fish don’t bite, and…
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 because of how much say the trailer has in how appetizing your bait looks. Selecting the right jig trailer can be a little complex. Here I…
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 things I try to find whenever I start examining new water. Bass love them, and if you’re new to offshore fishing, they are arguably the easiest offshore…
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 bass, but a crushing cold front rolls through the night before you head out to catch them. It’s one of the most annoying scenarios in fishing, and…
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 life.
The Best Crankbaits for Every Season
Crankbaits can catch fish in all seasons if you have the right bait and the right approach.
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 there are. While this is true, finding them is a little harder than you might think because, unlike Spring, Summer, and Winter, there really…
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 contours available for free on the internet, giving anglers easy access to the layout of their home water, or any other water they choose. The topo map is the first…
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, and bass love to call them home at many different times of the year. This is what a point looks like on a topographical map….
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 critically important thing to understand in bass fishing. What is a river channel? This part isn’t complicated. A river channel is where the old river or creek used to run prior…
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 underrated piece of the puzzle when you’re trying to unlock what’s happening on your body of water. We break down four common reasons a bass will eat…
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 of Bassmaster’s top 100 after a couple 40 pound bags were weighed. It’s an incredible fishery, but it’s small, close to a very populated area, and…
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 absolutely electric time to fish for a couple of reasons, but it certainly doesn’t come without its challenges. Bass are looking to move shallow, and they can…
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 on. Bass are understood to be aggressive feeders this time of year as they gorge themselves before the coming winter. In many cases, the bass will also push…
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 faster than the water above or below the thermocline. In simpler, more bass fishing specific terms, it’s a thin layer of water that divides the upper…
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 state love munching on these. “I have done a lot of snorkel surveying for crayfish. The smallmouth bass are ridiculously brazen and brave, and they will follow you. Once…
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, entry fees, and keeping a stocked tackle box will really put the squeeze on your wallet. Trust me, I know. The good news is there are plenty of ways to catch bass, including…
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 offshore bite is challenging, and there is an attention to detail and a certain level of patience required that is often misunderstood. It’s something that requires a ton…