How-To

How-To

When bass won’t bite

When bass are passive, don't be aggressive. Here's how the BASS pros lull inactive fish into eating

How-To

Tactics for rocky reservoirs

In some reservoirs it's the predominant bass habitat. And when that is the case, sorting through the rockpiles, outcroppings, sheer bluffs and other geographical formations can be a perplexing proposition at best.

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Superline Niches

Savvy anglers realize that using one line for all bass fishing applications is a huge mistake. Find out what techniques are best served with this new breed of string.

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Schedule your season

Anglers work on timing and perfect athletic execution to pick apart their adversary, targeting his weaknesses and taking advantage of every deficiency.

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Cranking timber with Marty Stone

In winning the 1990 Bassmaster Classic, Rick Clunn dispelled a myth that lipped baits and their trailing, sharp set of treble hooks aren't effective when fished through heavy timber.

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Reversing the Texas rig

"Being different is a big theme nowadays," says Mike Iaconelli, the 2006 Bassmaster Angler of the Year. "Fish have seen a regular Texas rigged plastic worm 10 times a day for the last five years."

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Prespawn: The final move

It's common bass fishing knowledge that a lake's entire population of largemouth does not assault the shallows to spawn in one great wave.

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Tapping floating docks

Pro Jimmy Mason gives us tips on how to catch fish under and around floating docks.

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