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Downsizing Your Bass Baits Increases Success For Bedding Trophy Bass

Fishing for bedding bass provides many anglers their best opportunity to catch a trophy bass. Though spawning bass are usually easy to spot against their fanned-out beds, catching them can often be frustrating … Most bass fisherman revert to standard bass baits (jigs, worms and sometimes topwaters) when fishing for bedding bass and more recently [...]

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Bass Fishing Photos: Capturing the Memories

How many times have you been out fishing for bass on your favorite lake or stream, caught a great largemouth or smallmouth and just wished you had a picture when talking about it later. Ok, part of the reason may be to ward off your friend’s comments about fishing tales and fishermen being truth-twisters but [...]

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How To Get Better Hook Sets

When many people think of fishing, they envision siting my the water’s edge on a lazy afternoon with an angler snoozing in the shade while worm floating under a bobber does all the work. On the other hand, if you are a bass fisherman, you know there is a little more to it than just [...]

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Bass Fishing Old Cape Cod Using Jerkbaits

What more can I say! After living on Cape Cod for a number of years, I can attest … early spring through late  fall bass fishing with jerkbaits (as well as a lot of other baits) can be phenomenal. In this video, the dynamic duo of Jim & Richie seem to have more of a [...]

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Bass Fishing Tip: Estimating Bass Weights Using Length & Girth

Have you ever found yourself fishing on a remote body of water and caught a high quality bass but didn’t have a scale to find its weight? I know I have … One several occasions during my early days of bass fishing, I would just mentally estimate the weight of the fish for the future [...]

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A Bass Pro’s Jig Fishing Secrets

Are you one of the many bass fishermen struggling to master the subtleties of fishing a jig and pig? If so, I have a treat for you today. Recently, Bass Pro and Bassmaster Classic Winner, Skeet Reese, created a great tutorial video about jig fishing on Clear Lake in northern California. Not only does he [...]

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Late Winter Shoreline Bass Fishing Mozingo Lake

A few days ago, I posted another general article about early spring bass shoreline fishing opportunities as the ice cover melts away.  Since we were blessed with the first significant late winter warm-up over the past several days, I decided to head over to Mozingo Lake and check out the ice conditions. As I approached [...]

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Bass Fishing Tips for Reservoirs: Simple Reservoir Classification System

Looking for a few tips for your bass fishing trip to those new reservoirs this season? Today’s post includes a tutorial video where Doc Bass guides you through the different primary classes of impoundments and how those classes relate to the bass fishing opportunities you’ll encounter in each one. The Essence – Changing Landscapes Equal [...]

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When Bass Speak, Do You Listen?

Have you ever had one of those days when the fishing is super slow and bass are barely cooperating then poof … something weird happens and a bass strikes when they shouldn’t? I know I have like one time when burning a jig n pig from the edge of a lay-down and a nice 3 [...]

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Bass Fishing Tip: Rock Piles – Bass Magnets for Any Season

Bass fishing and rock piles … I don’t know about you but I have a love-hate relationship with fishing rock piles and trying to entice bass from their hardened haven. Don’t get me wrong, I have caught numerous largemouth, smallmouth and even spotted bass from those heaps of stony rubble.  Even so, all those nooks [...]

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