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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.

They don’t jump in the boat

There’s been a ton of media coverage over the past couple of years about some of the legendary bass lakes around the country. It’s true that some of them have consistently produced heavy bags of...

Tackle Tip Tuesday: Palmer on squarebills

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Now’s the time to throw big plugs

Look to early morning, late evening

Tackle Tip Tuesday: Kreiger's topwater and Pop-R approach

Shallow summertime smallmouth

By Mark Hicks

Aren’t the brown bass supposed to be lurking in the dark depths in July and August?

Tackle Tip Tuesday: Rigging a jig for success

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Think offshore in June

By David Fritts

It’s been a weird spring. Rolling heat waves and heavy rains have messed things up, really bad in most parts of the country. The bass in most of the places I know about are late and the water’s...

Time to catch your personal best

By Keith Combs

The spawn is over throughout most of the country, but there’s still plenty of time left to catch your personal best bass this year. I’ve made it a hallmark of my career to try to target the biggest...

Bridge over trebled waters

By David A. Brown

Bridges get a lot of attention from crankbaiters, so anglers may need to dig deeper in their tacklebox to find the perfect offerings.

How Cobb sets up his buzzbait

Brandon Cobb has a specific way he throws a buzzbait all year, but especially in the spring and summer. He rigs a soft plastic called a Horny Toad onto his Signature Buzzbait. A soft plastic gives...

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Tech Tip Thursday with Brandon Cobb

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Neko rig 101 with Zaldain

Chris Zaldain breaks down the Neko Rig and the complete setup he uses when fishing this technique on the Bassmaster Elite Series.

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Chasing Florida’s river bass, part 2

Inspired by childhood memories of fishing in Pennsylvania, a soldier looks to the Sunshine State’s small-stream species as salve for his post-deployment scars.

Wendlandt practicing more risk management

By Jon Storm

For veteran professional angler Clark Wendlandt of Texas, risk is something that's haunted him the past five years.

10 motor tips from Mercury and Schultz

Scotty B. from the Mercury Marine service crew shares 10 motor upkeep and maintenance tips with Bassmaster Elite Series pro Bernie Schultz.

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Culling the bite

By Drew Benton

Culling the bite from smaller bass to bigger bass is something that most of us try to do, at least some of the time. But, I can tell you as a professional bass angler that it’s also one of the...

Walters unlocks the shad spawn

The shad spawn is a great pattern to fish in the southern part of the country when the water temps hit the 70 degrees. Shad will spawn on hard cover like grass, rock, wood and other objects. Here...

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The biggest shad spawn myth

By Hank Cherry

A shad spawn is a magnet that draws bass and anglers alike. Most anglers understand that and fish them. The thing is, though, they only fish them just before and just after sunrise. They catch a...

Pay attention to points

By Jamie Hartman

If I had to make one point about the postspawn, it would be “pay attention to the points.”When you look a the geography of a largemouth spawning area, they often pass several points on their way...

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