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Maximize your frog fishing game

Everyone knows the topwater frog’s reputation for big-fish attraction, but there’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Personal preference often steers bait selection decisions, but there’s often a more strategic element that determines...

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Pro Neko rigging tactics

Arizonan Clifford Pirch is without question one of the most accomplished finesse fishermen on the Bassmaster Elite Series. At nearly every Elite event, Pirch has several spinning outfits on his...

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Swing head for smallmouth

A significant benefit of following Bassmaster Elite Series tournaments is that fans can learn techniques the pros use to catch bass. The pros also take note of what their competitors...

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Common smallmouth misconceptions

Largemouth and smallmouth bass came of age at different times in the tradition of fishing study and pursuit. That’s really just a long way of saying that we knew a...

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Which tide is best?

The basic rule of thumb for fishing tidal rivers is that the bass bite best during the last few hours of an outgoing tide, when the water is low. While...

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Dialing in frogging with Ish Monroe

Bassmaster Elite Series pro Ish Monroe is one of the best-known frog sticks fishing today. His lineage runs deep: He’s an angler child of the California Delta, and he was...

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Catch bigger bass with bigger baits

As many of his bed fishing colleagues try to find the best way to jam a 5/0 hook into a 3-inch craw-fish, Ish Monroe sometimes has the opposite problem —...

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Finesse rigging alternatives

A few decades back, it was possible to go out on tour and experience success with a “Tennessee Tacklebox,” a brown paper grocery sack with a handful of flipping jigs,...

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Dialing in the bluegill spawn

Pros are pros because they can dial in a pattern better than 99.5 percent of other anglers. They know when it’s happening, when it’s not and how to milk it...

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Small mats can produce big bass

Elite Series pro Brandon Card of Tennessee expanded my bass fishing horizons on the summer day I fished with him at Wisconsin’s Pewaukee Lake. Pewaukee has copious submerged grassbeds that...