Seven Places to Catch Pre-Spawn Bass on the Flats

During the spring fling that bass fishermen call the spawn, some fish areindeed on their beds and ready for business, but plenty of others are still inthe pre-b

How to Catch Spawning Bass with Tube Lures

Hordes of bass have followed their spawning urges into the shallows this month. They are ambushing bait around flooded bushes, blowdowns, and boat docks. Or the

How to Catch Bass on Ledges Using Jigs

When your usualshallow-water hotspots get crowded or worked too hard, fishledges—inconspicuous drops of only a foot or so. Around spawning time, they canbe load

Five Spots to Ambush Postspawn Bass

Bass are notoriously tough to pin down after theyve vacated their spawning nests. Some stay very shallow, holding close to shore. Others move to woody and weedy

How to Rig Five Common Sinkers

BULLET SINKER MODELS: Lead, brass, steel, or tungsten; painted, free-sliding, or self-pegging. USES: Casting or pitching Texas-rigged soft plastics. RIGGING: Ru

The 35 Best Bass Fishing Waters in the U.S.

WEST 1 DIAMOND VALLEY LAKE Southern California, 4,500 acres Add Diamond Valley to the list of California waters vying for the next world-record bass. Its been o

How to Catch More Fish by Improving your Ability to Feel Strikes

Theres a lot of hogwash going around about sensitivity in fishing, with almost every manufacturer claiming that his rod or line is more sensitive than the next

How to Rig the Ultimate Bass Boat

1 EVINRUDE E-TEC 250 Big-bore boat owners listen up: Evinrude has reestablished the giant two-stroke as the state of the art in marine technology. The E-Tec get

How to Catch Post-Spawn Bass with Surface Lures

With bass leaving their beds and ravenous from the rigors of spawning, nows the time to cast out a topwater popper and get ready for some explosive action. On m

Catch Postspawn Bass by Imitating Spawning Bluegills

This time of year, spawning bluegills will move to the shorelines of lakes and ponds. Their bedding sites can be prime locations to catch largemouth bass. And w

Butter-Braided Fish Fillets From Your Freezer

Technically, fish can last up to half a year in a freezer, but their quality starts to slide after the first month. Braising those longer-term residents of your

Learn to Become a Bass Fishing Pro

CAN THIS GUY WIN IT ALL? Thats the question I was asking myself a week before the Citgo Bassmaster Classic, as I climbed into the boat for a day of scout fishin

What We Learned By Testing Seven Spinning Rods

Just how hard, I have often wondered, could I pull on any particular fishing rod without hearing an awful crack and finding myself holding a splintered stick of

Favorite Lures of the Largemouth Guides

Captain Roger Lee BrownRoger Lee Brown Location: Lake Champlain, New YorkCredentials: Brown is a former pro tournament angler turned operator of a 3-day bass fi

Fisherman Dies In Massive Lake Erie Ice Rescue

From the Detroit Free Press: One person, who fell into icy Lake Erie waters after ending up stranded on a broken ice floe with around 150 people Saturday mornin

Missouri Eyes High-School Bass Fishing Tourneys

From the Kansas City Star: Once you get over the unlikely prospect of a student lettering in bass fishing or getting a scholarship to fish for some Division I s

Merwin: Living Large for Bass

It was just about this time last year that I slipped down to Florida for some bass fishing on Lake Toho with Orlando-area guide Steve Boyd. We spent a couple of

Tip of the Day: Hook Frogs through the Leg to Catch More Fish

  Try hooking a small frog through the skin of its hind leg, rather than its lips. Attach several split shot to the line, 2 feet from the frog, and cast it

Cermele: Fish Eat Weird Stuff

  Pop quiz. Guide Lonnie Osterholm has during his career caught a lake trout on which of the following: a socket wrench, Batman action figure, or Kit-Kat b

Cermele: Hollywood's Greatest Fishing Scenes

Mr. Petzal over at the Gun Nut blog is a huge fan of western movies and posts about them frequently. I thought maybe it was time to look at fishing in films and