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The Definition of Wintering Holes
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The 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 BassSuckers for Late Fall Smallmouth
21 October 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth BassLate Fall Lure Selection
14 October 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Smallmouth BassFall Migrations are Condition-Driven
07 October 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth BassLARGEMOUTH BASS
Feast 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
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01 August 2024 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth BassGreen Water and Eutrophic Lakes
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How to Find Smallmouths in Late Fall
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Feast on Fall Largemouths
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Paddletails for Pre-Turnover Smallmouths
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Horizontally September
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Searching for Slop
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Hunting Early Morning Giants
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Selecting for Specimens
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Smallmouth Fish Finders
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Attacking Staging Sites
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Shallow Wood and Sand Patterns
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Late Fall Lure Selection
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Z-Man Diezel MinnowZ are Fish Finders
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Z-Man Fishing Introduces the Tungsten Chatterbait EVO
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The Best Fishing Boat Upgrades
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ChatterBait Creators Unveil Refined ElaZtech Trailer
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Best Z-Man Colors for Northwoods Lakes
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Things I’ve Dismissed in the Past and Wished I Hadn’t
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When and Where to Fish Braid, Mono, Fluoro
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Kalin’s Lunker Grub – A Swimming Grub Seminar
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A Quick How-To for Pressured Smallmouth Waters
Monday, 28 August 2023
Many of the best inland smallmouth fisheries happen to be the most pressured lakes in the state of Wisconsin. Their trophy bass are more elusive as a result. I am not a fan of fishing pressure and high traffic water, but pursuing hot bites throughout the year brings me to these fisheries. It used
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips
Rip Rap Smallmouth
Tuesday, 01 August 2023
I tied on a red craw squarebill crankbait for my customer fishing at the bow, directing him to cast it parallel with and tight to the bank, and to watch for the shoreline’s rock protrusions displaying on side-imaging.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Reptiles and Amphibians
Tuesday, 01 August 2023
Opportunistic predators with voracious appetites, largemouth bass will eat whatever living creatures swim and slither atop matted weeds or across the lake’s surface. With our lakes gaining in weed cover and plant life, this spells success for anglers pursuing largemouths with reptile and amphibian baits.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Night Cranking
Tuesday, 01 August 2023
It wanders erratically under a multitude of retrieve speeds and cadences. Its polycarbonate or circuit board lips are able to withstand the frequent punctures from digging into the hard, impenetrable lake bottom. Hook points may impressively dull in the process. Colliding into wood, rock, and boulder, its frivolous wobbling and vibration aided by noisy
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Tips for More Summer Smallmouths
Saturday, 01 July 2023
The most challenging, rewarding, and steady smallmouth fishing of the season takes place in summer. Depending on your whereabouts, patterns could be habitual or constant from year-to-year. They may revolve around good weather, peak feeding, or other additional factors.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Northwoods SLOP!
Saturday, 01 July 2023
Slop. Junkweed. Floating weed mats. Pad fields. Several northern largemouth waters contain these plant life overgrowths. As the summer months proceed on, plant species sprout and flourish, fed by daily sunshine and nutrients seeping into the system. Through photosynthesis, they continue to grow as summer progresses.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Simply Crappies
Saturday, 01 July 2023
All throughout the Midwest, crappie anglers are superstars when fish are shallow, vulnerable, and abundant in spring. For a few weeks, everyone is catching them it seems, and it’ll be the only time of year they get targeted by the majority. But come summer, the game changes. The waters warm and shallows get vacated,
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Crappie Fishing
Rise and Shine Largemouths
Saturday, 01 July 2023
Rise and shine! Multiple alarms sound off, prompting me to get out of bed. It’s 3am, and pitch-black outside. I sleep-walk into the kitchen, and fire up the coffee pot. To wake up and get my day started, I’ll need more than just a few copious cups of high-caffeinated coffee.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Catch Smallmouths Quickly
Thursday, 01 June 2023
By Andrew Ragas – with Cory Schmidt Time – (noun) is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity in material reality or in the conscious experience. It’s also the single greatest fishing tool to have.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass