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Bass fishing tips from Bassmaster Elite anglers and other bass fishing experts. Learn about fishing tackle, rods, reels and techniques to help you catch more bass.

Techniques for late summer bass fishing

Late summer bass fishing is a different game. Let’s talk about what that really means.

Lester's top fall lures for Chickamauga and Nickajack

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Top lures at Sam Rayburn

Check your boat for gremlins

Tackle Tip Tuesday: Rigging a swimbait

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Target acquired with my electronics

3 things a southern angler learned about northern smallmouth

The eyes have it

Bridge over trebled waters

How to create advantage

By Andrew Upshaw

Advantage: A condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position.As a competitor, we look for advantages over our competition. The degree of advantage doesn’t matter, as...

Getting back aboard a capsized kayak is fairly easy but not completely intuitive. You need to have a plan and — ideally — go out and practice. Throughout the process, keep your center of gravity low and in the middle of the kayak as much as possible.

How to get back in a kayak

Spend enough time in a kayak and you'll need to be able to get back into it in case you fall out. Here's some helpful tips for just that.

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Wily with the wacky

By David A. Brown

For third-year Elite Jake Whitaker, cutting his angling teeth on the clear, structure-laden waters of North and South Carolina lakes made him 'wacky.'

1-Minute Angler: Canterbury's jig trailer

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The 2019 Bassmaster Angler of the Year Scott Canterbury shares how he rigs a jig trailer.

Football is out, fishing is in

By John Crews

Many anglers fish all spring only to look forward to being a high school and or college football fan in the fall.

Tackle Tip Tuesday: Arey's flutter spoon modification

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In this Tackle Tip Tuesday, Matt Arey shows fans how to rig a flutter spoon differently to increase the hookup and landing ratio with this lure.

Placing tackle trays for kayak fishing

Keep the most-used terminal tackle stuck to a plastic boat’s sidewalls in a couple of waterproof tackle trays.

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Legendary Yelas went old school at St. Clair

By Alan McGuckin

Jay Yelas launched his pro career in 1989 by living in a van as a tournament fishing vagabond when gas was $1 a gallon. Now age 54, he is truly one of professional bass fishing’s living legends...

It’s time to call it a day, and Zaldain has proven why he’s one of the top 20 pros in the world by mining quality bass in short order amid a sweltering hot July day on a relatively clear reservoir. The key pattern was finding brush in 22-feet of water on

Catching bass on the hottest days of summer

See how Elite pro Chris Zaldain approaches a day fishing in hot summer temperatures.

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Tackle Tip Tuesday: Swindle's handy tube head

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In this Tackle Tip Tuesday video, Gerald Swindle shows how to modify a traditional jig head and turn it into a tube head for smallmouth fishing up north.