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Flooded Out Largemouth

  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

Bass Funnels

  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
  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.
  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.

Smallmouths on Point

  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.

Northwoods Backwaters

  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.
  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
  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.  

Ice Out Bass

  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,

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