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I ended my last column with the idea that my bass catching success formula would work better if you also learned to marry the real world and the academic world. Here are a few suggestions for how...
My formula for catching bass is pretty simple, really: one strength + versatility = continual successSomeone once observed — it might have been KVD — that if catching fish was a matter of luck the...
The water temperature in my neighborhood is in the 50s. That’s still a fall bite, although the bass are starting to move away from the flats and the baitfish. It’s important to understand this...
For the past couple of weeks I’ve talked about how excited I was to visit Japan and see what they were doing with bass fishing. The point of that conversation was innovation. As most of you know by...
This new technique is really exciting to me. That’s unusual. It’s hard to learn something new or to get really fired up about a new way to catch bass after nearly 20 years as a professional angler,...
As you now know, I’m back from Japan. It was all I’d hoped it would be, and more. Much of what I said last time was confirmed. The Japanese bass angling industry is one where things are tweaked and...
By the time you’re reading this I’ll be in Japan. It’s a combination trip — part vacation, part sponsor work, part lure buying and part fishing. I’ve been dreaming about this for years.The thing...
Something was going on at Mille Lacs that I think you will find interesting. Many of the anglers, myself included, upsized our drop shot rigs to take advantage of the prevailing conditions. It was...