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Monday, 06 May 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass

River Smallmouths Close to Home

  Wherever you live in the Midwest, I’m willing to bet a fortune there’s a major river system located a drive away that’s teeming with big smallmouths. If you’re willing to explore and find them, prepare yourself for some life-changing events and newfound fishing addictions.
Wednesday, 01 May 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass

Spring Largemouth Hot Spots

  Up here, the seasons can change in a flash and weather patterns evolve quickly. As lake surface temperatures slightly warm, bass instinctively sense these changes and go on the move.
Wednesday, 01 May 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass

Top Spring Largemouth Patterns and Tactics

  We’re well past ice-out, and by now anglers have greater open water fishing opportunities presenting themselves. Ponds, flowages, drainage lakes, backwaters, swamps, rivers, and channels would be such places to start looking at.
Wednesday, 01 May 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass

Spring Smallmouth Hot Spots

  Usually by late April, another spring season has arrived – for me, anyways. The cabin gets opened for the year, I pick-up my boat from winter storage, and scramble to make preparations to fish within the next day or two. It’s the most exciting time of the year!
Monday, 22 April 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass

River Smallmouths Early and Late

  My region’s river systems provide some of the best and most exciting smallmouth fishing early and late in the year. This year (2024), will remain to be seen, as we are in a major drought right now.
Monday, 15 April 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Short Stories and Timely Tips

Location-Driven Largemouths

  In my region, the spring season is short and condensed, lasting from ice-out through spawn. Its duration varies each year, as it relates to both.
Monday, 01 April 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass

The Spring Playbook for Largemouths

  Spring offers early season largemouth opportunities and a bevy of shallow water action. Largemouths awaken quickly from their winter dormancies to feed heavily in preparation for their impending spawn. At fisheries they’ve been dialed in, their whereabouts and behavioral tendencies can be predictable. April and May will be the best two months to try
Monday, 01 April 2024 / Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass

Conquering Cold Water Smallmouths

  Cold weather and water temperatures affect anglers more mentally than physically. Cold affects smallmouths too, but not as drastically as it does to humans. Isn’t it funny how smallmouths are heartier than people?