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Three Simple Ice-Out Smallmouth Strategies for 2025
23 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Catching Smallmouths This March and April (hopefully)
17 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
My Best Chatterbaits
03 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Largemouth Bass
Top Chatterbait Tips and Insights
03 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Embracing Spring Cold fronts
26 February 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth BassSMALLMOUTH BASS

Three Simple Ice-Out Smallmouth Strategies for 2025
23 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Catching Smallmouths This March and April (hopefully)
17 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Embracing Spring Cold fronts
26 February 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth BassLARGEMOUTH BASS

My Best Chatterbaits
03 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Largemouth Bass
Top Chatterbait Tips and Insights
03 March 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Chatterbait Elite EVO Scorches Spring Largemouths
20 February 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Z-Man ChatterSpike – The Best Chatterbait Trailer Ever Made?
20 February 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Gear Reviews, Largemouth Bass
What We’re Throwing in March (Hopefully)
19 February 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth BassThree Simple Ice-Out Smallmouth Strategies for 2025
Sunday, 23 March 2025
Finding smallmouths immediately at ice out depends on your temperature gauge and intricate knowledge of the lake’s locations as they relate to seasons. Be mindful that smallmouths are sensitive to water temperature changes. Any trickle of warmth is a trigger for increased feeding, while cold fronts are a killer.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Catching Smallmouths This March and April (hopefully)
Monday, 17 March 2025
Most years, I strive to be the first angler on the water targeting smallmouths at ice out. Doing this well before everyone else has become a unique fishing experience.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
My Best Chatterbaits
Monday, 03 March 2025
March and April are Chatterbait-centric and dominant months for many of us who fish them. Z-Man’s extensive lineup of bladed jigs continues to evolve and proves to be an outstanding lure to catch big spring largemouths with.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Largemouth Bass
Top Chatterbait Tips and Insights
Monday, 03 March 2025
Chatterbaits continue to grow and evolve into an intricate lure category and system of fishing. Whether the objectives center around pursuing trophies or numbers, chucking and grinding the water column with an assortment of Chatterbaits triggers success from all bass fisheries across America. Z-Man’s diverse lineup of Chatterbaits continue to prove themselves everywhere each
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Embracing Spring Cold fronts
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
The main challenges we receive from cold fronts are the less than ideal and unmotivating fishing conditions they bring; Cold overnight temperatures, cloudless, bluebird, bright skies with humid-less crisp air that accompanies the high pressure that rides the frontal system’s backside. Spring cold fronts come frequently and often, as they usually follow thunderstorms, rain
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
Chatterbait Elite EVO Scorches Spring Largemouths
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Since its invention during the early 2000s in a country South Carolina garage, the ChatterBait has never stopped working and evolving, enhancing every angler’s experience with each new version. Along the way, each different Chatterbait variation has mounted tournament victories and parades of big bass.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
What We’re Throwing in March (Hopefully)
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
New for 2025, and to help better incentivize your membership and participation at Northwoods Bass, I will be showcasing the EXACT lures and baits that we will be using on a monthly basis.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Top Colors for Spring Largemouths
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Colors are clique, and subjective to the largemouths of every lake type and fishery they inhabit. I’ve got my best colors that work universally, and I’ve also got my best colors that are specific to a fishery.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
My Best Day Ever
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Between a lot going on and lack of motivation, I’ve hit a wall for the first time in 3 years on my writing assignments this winter.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass