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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 BassMy Monthly Smallmouth Planner
Thursday, 01 August 2024
Smallmouths know when seasons change, and have the ability to prepare and adapt to all conditions. Their activity is always a product of changes whether they be seasonal, temperature, location, wind and weather, or some other biological influencer. If able to pattern accordingly, your fishing strategy, and the day’s potential fishing destination, must revolve
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Cold Fronts and How They Should Impact All Decision Making
Thursday, 01 August 2024
A bad day of fishing is always better than the best day at work, and fishing during the worst day of fishable weather is always better than sitting indoors. Whether guiding my guests or leisure fishing solo, I must fish through everything from rain and snow, to heat or cold – and even cold
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass
Largemouth Junk Strategies
Thursday, 01 August 2024
Across northern lakes, largemouths tend to seek the deepest edges and weed cover available, but where dense shallow cover is available, fish will also gravitate to these lake areas as well. Largemouths thrive in slop, utilizing it for their living quarters and prolific feeding. In these locations, largemouths frequently hunt for small prey that
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Green Water and Eutrophic Lakes
Monday, 29 July 2024
Largemouths are comfortable in warmer, shallower waters. They are also efficient predators in algal bloom conditions. Come mid-summer under 78-to-82-degree water temps., largemouths from these waters feed heavily to maintain their robust weights.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Patterns for Mid Summer Giants
Monday, 22 July 2024
There is no bad time to catch big largemouths in mid-summer, because they are prolific feeders with voracious appetites, and tolerate well to summertime heat. If I had to identify the best summer season windows, they are the bluegill spawn in June, the establishment of deep green weeds at summer’s peak, and the offshore
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
#NoScope Moping
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Somewhere out there, out in the uncharted and unexplored abyss of the deepest, coldest, and clearest inland lakes, an open water world exists where offshore roaming predators hunt together and follow around pelagic prey.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Smallmouth Audibles
Monday, 01 July 2024
Calling an audible is a term in football, referring to when the quarterback has to change a play at the last minute in response to how the opposing team is lining up. Usually, the quarterback doesn’t like what he sees. This last-minute strategy change is dependent upon his ability to read the opponent, and
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The Best Fishing Boat Upgrades
Monday, 01 July 2024
Today’s marine market has priced out most serious anglers and consumers. Whether seeking an aluminum deep-V or flat bottom jon, or a fiberglass bass boat or multi-species hull, acquiring any boat type from every manufacturer is expensive, as will be the cost of its ownership. To buy a new boat nowadays, one must have
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Smallmouth Fish Finders
Monday, 17 June 2024
Nothing is simpler on the water than slinging a search lure and catching whatever bites. My fish-finding strategy is all about getting paddletails to wiggle, shimmy, and swim lively throughout the entire water column on a medium to steady retrieve.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass