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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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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Mar 7, 2024
Five Best Baits for Prespawn Bass
Spring is the most volatile time of year in bass fishing. Being effective this time of year, more than almost any other time, means being unbeholden to…
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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
Best Fish Finders Under $100
The budget fish finder is more or less a dying breed. The under-$100 fish finder is already extinct. There is no such thing left on the market, but if…
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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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Jul 6, 2023
Summer Bass: 4 Tips to Catch Bass on Deep Crankbaits
Deep cranking is almost inarguably the most fun way to catch deep summertime bass. It’s a power fishing technique that can fire up a school and put…
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Jun 6, 2023
How To Install A Fish Finder
Mounting a fish finder on your bass boat is, surprisingly, not actually that difficult of a job. You can absolutely do this yourself. If you’re working…
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May 15, 2023
The Best Deep Diving Crankbaits
Summer is almost here, and with it will come big schools of bass getting down into the depths. Ever since it was popularized in the 2000s, deep cranking…
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Apr 11, 2023
How to Select the Right Gear Ratio Fishing Reel
What is a gear ratio? The gear ratio of a reel measures how many rotations of the reel’s spool are produced by one full turn of the reel’s handle. A…
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Apr 10, 2023
Everything You Need to Know About the Carolina Rig
The Carolina Rig is one of the oldest techniques in bass fishing. It’s been catching bass longer than most people reading this article have been alive,…
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Mar 29, 2023
Best Bass Lures for 2024
Updated for 2024 Part of our goal at BassBlog.org is to clear away the clutter (sometimes this is meant literally) and simplify bass fishing. If you’re…
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Feb 21, 2023
What Makes a Good Bass Jig – Featuring Chris Love of 911 Custom Lures
For the better part of the last decade, Chris Love has been making custom jigs as the founder of 911 Custom Lures. Over that time, he’s developed some…
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Feb 21, 2023
The Different Kinds of Bass Jigs and How to Fish Them
Jigs are some of the most popular bass baits in the world. This is not for no reason. They catch fish. Big tournament bass are most often caught on a…
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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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Aug 15, 2022
Best Summer Bass Fishing Baits
Summer is my absolute favorite time to catch bass. They group up in large numbers and days of huge numbers of fish aren’t uncommon if you can figure out…
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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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Jun 28, 2022
Best Batteries for Bass Boats and What You Need to Know.
Boat batteries are a pain in the ass. They’re heavy, expensive, and sometimes confusing devices that are certainly nowhere close to the fun part of bass…
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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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Feb 11, 2022
The Complete Bass Boat Buying Guide
Buying a boat is complicated and making an uninformed decision can be costly. Here is everything you need to know about bass boats before you enter the…
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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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Jul 26, 2021
The Best Baitcasting Reel and Spinning Reel for Under $100
A top of the line fishing reel in today’s market can run you over $500, which does very little to fight the perception that bass fishing is becoming a…
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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
Building the Budget Bass Boat
As the technological revolution in bass fishing continues to grow, so do the barriers to entry to a sport that was never meant to cost $50,000 to…
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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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Oct 7, 2020
Understanding the Different Spinnerbaits & Blades
If all the different customizable that exist within the world of spinnerbaits give you anxiety, you’re not alone. Between size, color, blade size, blade…
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Sep 14, 2020
How to Get the Best Deal on a Used Boat
The used boat market is a wild place. If you know what you’re looking for, you can make out like a bandit and get a great boat at a great price. If you…
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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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Jul 29, 2020
Fish Finder Buying Guide
Fishfinders, depth finders, sonar, electronics, units, whatever you want to call them, there’s no denying the impact innovation in the fishfinder market…
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Jul 7, 2020
Selecting the Right Fishing Line
Line might be one of the most boring topics in bass fishing, but anyone who has ever stuck a 10 pounder only to see it swim away with their bait and a…
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Jun 10, 2020
The Guide for The Perfect Marine Battery Box
Minn Kota – Best on the market Built-in power meter, 2 circuit breakers, 15amp accessory plug Newport Vessels Smart Battery Box Durable,…
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Jun 10, 2020
How to Select the Best Trolling Motor for your Bass Boat
There was once a time when a trolling motor was a relatively simple piece of equipment, but that time has come and gone. Like everything in the sport of…
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Jun 8, 2020
Beginner’s Guide to Crankbaits
The crankbait might be the most recognizable bait in bass fishing. It’s a hard bait, commonly made of hard plastic, but occasionally other materials,…
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May 19, 2020
The Dumbest Way to Lose A Tournament
There is a six-pound largemouth bass in a tree. I am staring at it. I can see it clearly from thirty yards away, because the tree in which it currently…
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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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Video: 20 Pound Bag Off One Spot
Video: 20 Pound Bag Off One Spot…
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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
Why you should never give up
I like Mike and Ikes. They’re good candy. This may sound a little weird too, but if they sit in the sun for a little bit and get chewier, they actually…
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May 19, 2020
6 Cool Sonar Images of Random Things
Not sure what bass look like on downscan? They look like this. I found this big school at sundown one Sunday in July on Shearon Harris in Central NC. Fun…
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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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