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08 January 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear ReviewsNorthwoods Bass 2025 Fishing Itinerary
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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 BassNight 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
Favorite Plant Species
Thursday, 01 June 2023
Across most North American waters, aquatic plant species form the foundation of healthy and flourishing underwater ecosystems. Underwater vegetation will not only protect water quality and lead to healthier habitats, but they also produce life-giving oxygen and play host to several fish species.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Muskie Fishing
Tips for Bigger Summer Largemouths
Thursday, 01 June 2023
No creature is wiser, wittier, and more deceptive than a trophy largemouth bass is. Once summer peak settles in, which for me is by mid-July, my bass fishing desires and motivation revolve greatly around the whereabouts of big largemouths.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
High Water Strategies for Largemouths
Monday, 15 May 2023
With over 100-plus inches of snowfall this winter, I would expect high water fishing and its strategies to be in everyone’s bass fishing considerations these next several weeks. Here’s the deal of what happens as largemouths are eager to push into newly formed flooded shoreline habitats.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass