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- Top
Water All Day
- Ask
any fisherman or woman the most entertaining method
of catching bass and chances are they will respond with
" the top water bite". From my own personal
experience, I can tell you that I laughed so much with
the excitement, that my partner thought I was going
to have a heart attack...
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- Worm
Fishing: The Basics
- Like
most methods of fishing, some require additional skills
like " reading the line". Others require us
to use our "sixth sense" to detect those soft
or delicate bites from bass. Well welcome to the world
of worm fishing, because this is a combination of everything
I just mentioned and more! NOTE: -When I use the word
worm, I am also referring to other soft plastic shapes
and creatures, which can be fished by these...
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- "Going
Mental"
- Over
the years I have read a lot about where to fish and
what to use, there are many talented Bass anglers that
can give advice about a multitude of subjects. We all
owe thanks to fellow members , magazines, television
shows and various instructional videos. We all posses
the best equipment money can buy, sensitive rods and
line, smooth reels, hypodermic needle sharp hooks, fast
and quiet boats, sonar...
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- Slump
- One
of the biggest lures of bass fishing is the competitive
nature of the sport. At any level, its competing against
the fish on an afternoon out, your buddy on a Saturday
morning or in the structured setting of a professional
tournament, its competition in a pure form. This fact
causes us to occasionally encounter the malady that
every competitor, in every sport has to face “The Slump." ...
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- Is
Bigger Always Better
- I'm
pretty much willing to bet that nearly every angler
reading this article, at one point or another, has heard
the cliché "Bigger baits catch bigger fish".
But does this hold true in every situation? As
a Long Island angler, I seriously doubt it! Time to
face facts, bigger isn't always better. So with that
in mind, we ask ourselves, what are we left with? Answer;
finesse! Finesse, a word that many longtime...
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- Drop
Shotting
- Technique
is called “Drop Shotting” and to put it simply,
it allows you to suspended your lure while maintaining
contact with the bottom. It’s rigged with the lure
tied above the weight. This allows you to “shake”
or “twinkle” your lure while keeping it in
the strike zone. It can be extremely effective at times.
Most of the people I have fished with prefer drop shotting
with a glass bead/brass weight...
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- "To
Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before"
- About
6 years ago, I decided to take a trip down to Florida
because I wanted to catch a 10 lb. Bass. After calling
several different guide services, I came across Hugh
Crumpler’s guide service. One of the first things
he said was “I hope you don’t mind getting
hung up on branches”. He then went on to explain
all about Stick Marsh (Farm 13). Stick Marsh was an
old orange grove with canals running through...
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- Full
Contact Fishing !
- Full
contact fishing you ask? Could this be a new form of
“extreme fishing requiring pads and a crash helmet?
In a word, no. However, for many it may be a style
of fishing that is very unfamiliar, and in some cases
may even seem foolish. The basis of full contact fishing
lies in the fact that instead of fishing in and around
cover and structure…you fish on it. For all intents
and purposes the cover becomes part of the...
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- Shallow
& Slow
- There
are times when I want to specialize my spinnerbait presentation
in a way that isn't very popular. I like to go shallow
and slow. The way I see it, a bass sees dozens of spinnerbaits
fly by his face, "ticking the tops of the weeds",
looking for the reaction strike in the course of his
life. I want my bait to crawl by making a lot of noise
to show him something different. I take a light bait
on a big frame, preferably a...
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- Deer
Hunting & Bass Fishing
- You
may look at this and say, “This guy is crazy!”
Think about this for a moment. We hunt and become the
predator. We set up to ambush the deer as they go through
their daily routines. We set up on food plots, bedding
areas, travel routs—are we not doing the same
things when we go bass fishing? How many people buy...
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- A
Little Help From Your Friend
- If
you have had trouble catching fish lately, have not
been fishing in a long while, or have never been fishing,
I have some sound advice for you…..call a guide. Recently,
I have been struggling in my quest to catch the ever
elusive, black bass, on our local fish haven, Richland-Chambers
Reservoir. Rather than sell my boat and all my gear
out of frustration...
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- Hot
Water Bassin'
- I
recall my first experience fishing a power plant lake.
I was fifteen years old when a friend of mine, Wayne
Brown of Corsicana, Texas, took me to Fairfield Lake.
We catfished and ran trotlines together for years, as
well as, deer hunted and coon hunted together. In fact,
in many ways, Wayne raised me and taught me to love
and appreciate the outdoors. We always caught a lot
of fish and had a great time at Fairfield Lake...
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- In
The Heat Of The Night
- Anyone
that lives south of the Red River knows that "hot" does
little to describe the horrific heat we have been experiencing
lately. With temperatures surpassing the 100-degree
mark for several consecutive days, most folks don’t
think about hours on the water as being much fun. In
fact, this is the time of year I turn to fishing in
the dark, night fishing. Most importantly to me...
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- Night
Fishing
- Five
years ago in March, I was blessed with the birth of
my little fishing buddy, Tatum. In an attempt to spend
as much time with Tatum as possible, I cut way back
on my fishing, opting instead to stay home with her.
Although it was a sacrifice I will never regret, I did
miss my fishing. A fishing partner of mine had
a son the same year. He too, choose to stay home with
his child. One day, we were talking about how we missed
going fishing. As the discussion continued, we explored
the idea of going fishing at night, after the little
ones had gone down for the evening...
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- Yoga With a Casting Rod - Part 1
- Yoga - Spiritual and physical exercises to encourage health and well-being. A Hindu discipline aimed at achieving a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility. When I’m out on the lake, I usually fish as if I’m practicing for a tournament. I do this not because I’m practicing or want to be competitive, but because I want to be as efficient as possible. I don’t get out on the water as much as I would like anymore, so when I am out fishing, I have to find them and dial the pattern in as fast as possible...
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- Bass Talk, Are You Listening ? - Part 2
- Keeping what has been said in mind, all of your senses need to be wide open and receptive, because the fish will tell you where they are and what they. They talk to us in many different ways; it’s up to us to be listening. You may see them, but not catch them. You may see other triggers that tell you whether or not there are fish in a given area, but not realize it. Have you ever come into a swampy area and seen lots of frogs on the bank, but none in the shallow water or in pads at that spot...
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- What's Your Lure Doin' ? - Part 2
- Do you know what’s going on at the end of your line? I mean, do you really know what your lure is doing? Do you know what it just hit? Was it a rock? A log? A fish? Do you even feel your lure? It must seem like these questions are silly, but most anglers can’t answer them correctly. After the third or fourth cast some anglers slip into the repetitive mode or worse yet they don’t know how the lure is supposed to feel. The way to cure this is simple, work at it. But do the work in a practical sense...
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