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A look at pay lakes

Imagine a lake where you can catch 40 to 50 bass a day, with a good chance of tangling with a bragging-sized fish and not see another boat the entire day.

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Bass in the pits

A lot of strip pits are untouched, and the water is what really makes them special. They just seem to breed large fish.

‘Itsy-bitsy’ bass baits

Bassmasters know size matters. Sometimes bass are looking for a full-meal deal and will strike the biggest lures in your tacklebox: 10-inch worms, spinnerbaits with hubcap-sized blades, or maybe even one of those monster California plugs the kind that looks like it was carved from a table leg. More often, they're chowing down on the most abundant prey available, and they'll bite standard-sized bass lures that mimic threadfin shad or crawfish.

A tournament trail for able anglers

When Richard Warwick first saw the guy whose boat he'd be fishing in, he was worried. The man had no arms."I didn't know how we were going to do it," he remembers thinking at the time.

Guide to giant bass

Over the past three decades, literally dozens of lakes throughout the nation have produced largemouth bass weighing more than 10 pounds. And, as fisheries personnel continue to learn more about trophy bass management, more are added to the list each year.

Northern bass in summer grass

It's a steamy summer afternoon, and all of the action has died around your favorite weedbeds where, at dawn, bass were attacking just about every lure you threw.

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Slider fishing revisited

Charlie Brewer created a simple bait and called it a slider, and the rest is the Slider Lure Company history.

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