Bass Fishing

Subtle Approach for Winter Bass

“Water temps are running at 58 or 59 degrees and bass are suspended — bunched up — hovering over rocks, logs, brush or crevices just waiting for baitfish to swim by,” said competitive bass fisherman […]

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Keys for Locating Winter Bass

Although fall fishing is still upon us; the weather will change the patterns from fall bass fishing to winter bass fishing quickly it will just take a few cold nights. As this change occurs your […]

Slow Down for Winter Bass
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Slow Down for Winter Bass

By Best Bassin’, Billy “Hawkeye” Decoteau and Zman Lures. Bass are cold-blooded creatures, meaning as the water temperature drops lower and lower, bass move slower and slower! Add in some ice chilling water temperatures and […]

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Fishing Lures For Winter Bass

How important is retrieve speed in cold water? Some anglers may tell you that they fish just as fast in winter as they do in spring. However, most successful cold water anglers will tell you […]

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Winter Bass With Tail Spinners

WFN Has A Nice Tip To Share! A tail spinner can be fished all year in every season, summer, fall, winter and spring. The tail spinners were very popular as Mann’s Little George dominated in […]

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Winter Bass Jig Color

Reported by WFN: In many areas around the country where anglers live and fish, tackle selection can be somewhat limited to whatever is left at the local tackle shop. Limited selection makes it difficult to […]

How To Target Wintertime White Bass
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How To Target Wintertime White Bass

In spring, white bass seek tributaries of major reservoirs for spawning runs. It is during these spawning runs, when thousands of whites are concentrated in small streams, that most white bass are taken during the […]

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Carolina Rig in the Winter

Every year as we move to the wintertime where the bass are staging, getting a bite seems to be exceedingly difficult and a Carolina rig can be fished many ways and rigged differently to entice […]

Mud Lines For Bass
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Mud Lines For Bass

If I have learned anything about North Alabama in the winter, I have realized that in the winter we get a lot of rain causing the lake to get muddy; causing water to over-run many […]

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Arkansas – White Bass Run Spawns Action

Each spring, anglers across The Natural State start getting the fever for some fishing action. Sure, die-hard anglers and veteran bass fishermen have been on the water fishing for big fish for the last month […]

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Spring Striped Bass Tips

In Connecticut, we have striped bass year round. A large population overwinters in our rivers, but they aren’t always easy to catch. When the water is cold – anywhere from low thirties up into the […]

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Bass Under Ice

A certain notion says bass don’t much care for the cold. That when winter arrives and seals lakes with ice, big green and brown bass skulk about, but certainly don’t care to bite. Right? Well, […]

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Winter Fishing Tips and Tactics

Fishing through the winter months can be very rewarding for a number of reasons. Cold temperatures keep fair-weather anglers home and hunting seasons lead many anglers to trade lakes for the woods. Winter is also […]

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Boy Howdys For Early Season Bass

“This is my new favorite topwater lure,” Tim Mann said, showing off a Chrome/Black Boy Howdy before casting is just past a stick-up beside a seawall in a canal. Mann, who is long-time tournament bass […]

Bass Fishing

Rogue Hotspots for Bass

No other lure type is more effective in cold water than the hard-plastic suspending jerkbait. This dependable minnow-looking stickbait has bass-fishing fans across the country, but you need to know how, where and when to […]

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How to pattern November bass

Shallow water bass can be finicky at times, and the typical running the bank routine runs flat leaving some anglers scratching their heads. But November is a great time to be fishing, the water is cooling […]