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Visualize what the bass are doing to get a bite
It is often said that to catch a bass, you must think like a bass. However, a bass doesn’t feed on crawfish as opposed to shad as you might choose...
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How to use the wind to your advantage
The wind may be your friend, but this is true only for those who know how to take full advantage of whatever breeze happens to be blowing. Even a zephyr...
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Spybait for all species
Spybaits — those, dainty, odd-looking minnow-like lures with tiny spinners fore and aft — could best be classified as today’s “Shhhh hush” baits. Mention them around Bassmaster Elite Series pros...
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Finesse jigs for smallmouth
Smallmouth are a finicky fish. So often, they’re either ravenously hungry and inhaling your bait or they won’t even give it a look. To make them bite when they’re in...
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How to rebound after a bad day on the water
Now that Oklahoman Jason Christie has established himself as one of the world’s top professional bass anglers, you might think he rarely struggles to get bites. Despite finishing second in...
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Fish shallow when everyone else is deep
It’s early summer on Kentucky Lake, the absolute textbook situation for going offshore and wielding a big crankbait, swimbait or 10-inch worm, and Chad Morgenthaler has his back to them...
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Match the hatch with gizzard shad
Threadfin shad get all the hype. But, if you asked Kevin VanDam, Jordan Lee and Randall Tharp, fol-lowing the movements of gizzard shad always leads to big fish. Based on...
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Catching fish in standing timber
It’s shade, it’s shelter, it’s ambush feeding — it just happens to be deeper than most folks can dive with a single breath of air. We’re talking about standing timber...
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Advanced frogging techniques
Any list of essential bass lures would be woefully incomplete if it didn’t include the hollow, snagless frog. You can effectively fish this potent topwater bait over the nastiest cover,...
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How to fish oversized topwaters
The Megadog from Megabass is not your typical topwater stickbait. At 8.6 inches in length and 4.6 ounces in weight, it dwarfs the walking baits commonly used by bass anglers...
