Winter jig wisdom
Your nose and ears tingle, steam marks your every breath and frost — if not ice — glistens the deck. This is wintertime fishing and one of your best choices...
Trained for transition fishing
Change is good, they say, but that’s more than mere motivational mutterings; for a bass angler, transition areas often hold the juice. We’ll look at four to five examples of...
Don’t get stumped by stumps
Tree falls or meets the axe and what was once a tower of wood and leaves now stands as a subtle monument to a past life. But, enough with the...
How to catch more fish
Cheer for the swim team
Move over Michael Phelps, there’s another swimming stud that we simply cannot do without. Sorry Ryan Lochte, not your day. We’re talking those medium swimbaits in the 4 1/2- to...
Focus on fishing seams
Bassmaster Elite Series pro Chad Pipkens of Michigan was under enormous pressure when he competed in the final Bassmaster Northern Open of 2017 on Douglas Lake, Tennessee. The regular season...
Day on the lake: Koby Kreiger
In their classic 1965 folk-rock hit “Turn! Turn! Turn!” The Byrds reminded us that: “To everything, there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heavenA time to...
Flipping: Where did the fish go?
Matt Herren explains how a simple water change or wind change relocated his bass at the Sabine, but he was able to find where the population positioned on different structure.
