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08 January 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear ReviewsNorthwoods Bass 2025 Fishing Itinerary
07 January 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Fishing ReportsMonster Smallmouth Segment with Midwest Outdoors TV
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20 December 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Largemouth BassSMALLMOUTH BASS
Monster Smallmouth Segment with Midwest Outdoors TV
06 January 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallie Blog, Smallmouth BassSmallmouths Feeding on Stocked Walleyes
03 January 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth BassThe Best Smallmouth Bass Lures of 2024
13 December 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Smallmouth BassThe Definition of Wintering Holes
04 November 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth BassHow to Find Smallmouths in Late Fall
28 October 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth BassLARGEMOUTH BASS
The Best Largemouth Bass Lures of 2024
20 December 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Largemouth BassFeast on Fall Largemouths
23 September 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Short Stories and Timely TipsSearching for Slop
05 August 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Largemouth Bass, Short Stories and Timely TipsCold Fronts and How They Should Impact All Decision Making
01 August 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth BassLargemouth Junk Strategies
01 August 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth BassFlooded Out Largemouth
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
Water covers more than 80 percent of the earth’s surface, in oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, ice caps, glaciers, and even underground aquifers. It is a limited renewable resource for its precipitation and evaporation cycle. Water always evaporates, moving to the atmosphere where it will help create the next incoming weather system. Jet streams will
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Bass Funnels
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Admittedly, poorer fishing days outweigh the good days, and this happens more often than we’d like due to powers beyond our control. When faced with challenges and problems such as bass not being located where they’re supposed to, inactivity, or foul conditions, good anglers will
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Top River Fishing Tips for Spring Smallmouths
Sunday, 01 May 2022
River systems throughout the upper Midwest can offer some of the best and most exciting bass fishing in spring. Depending on its fishery, action and trophies can both be possible on a near daily basis.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Mistake-Free Smallmouth Fishing
Sunday, 01 May 2022
Perfection isn’t an action. It’s a habit of meticulousness guided through fundamental process. As anglers, we can expect better of ourselves on the water on a daily basis so the next day of fishing is better than the last. To accomplish mistake-free fishing, we must learn from our past mistakes.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Smallmouths on Point
Sunday, 01 May 2022
Whether fishing a lake for the first time, or for the thousandth time, visiting its points is a shortcut to immediate fishing success. These topographical lake structures provide smallmouths with a multitude of benefits that are essential for feeding, homing, and survival.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Northwoods Backwaters
Friday, 01 April 2022
From shallow sloughs and oxbows winding off the Upper Mississippi River and Wisconsin River systems, to the slop-choked bays and flood plains of lowland flowages, and the ditches and small creeks inletting into drainage lakes, backwaters offer unreachable populations of big fish that are least pursued.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Smallmouths, The Earlier the Better
Friday, 01 April 2022
Winter relents. Spring creeps in. Ice has finished melting, and we have open water once again. While most anglers haven’t yet fired up their outboards, a longing for big smallmouths excitedly energizes the first trip of the year. Mid April has chilly days, but the ensuing hook sets and singing of the drag is
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Insights and Ideas for More Spring Smallmouth
Friday, 01 April 2022
Spring pre-spawn smallmouth patterns are solidified across so many fisheries throughout the Midwest and Great Lakes. Wherever in these regions you’re destined to fish, the smallmouth bass populations of natural lakes, rivers, and reservoirs are guaranteed to be feeding heavily at this time.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Ice Out Bass
Thursday, 03 March 2022
Across many northern waters, bass action begins immediately after ice-out. Where catch and release-only spring regulations are implemented in Michigan and Wisconsin, it’s now possible to target largemouth and smallmouth on inland lakes during March and April while other gamefish species remain closed. Nowadays, there is no waiting game for bass seasons to open,
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass