How-To

How-To

How to fish river lakes

While bass living in those waters have the same basic needs, catching them requires an understanding of the differences in how fish live and feed in such dissimilar environments.

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Weighting soft jerkbaits

Tommy Martin adapts his bait to meet the needs of the fish, that's how you stay in this business as long as he has.

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Shad fetish

Spring through fall, Echols tunes in to shad movements to stay in touch with feeding bass. He targets high spots next to creek and river channels. Here bass feed on suspended shad that roam over sloping bottoms and ledges.

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Three approaches to bed fishing

In this article, you can read how skilled bed fishermen use their ability to an advantage with the big money usually ending up in their pockets.

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Advanced sonar tactics

The heart of Robbins' advanced sonar fishing method is a transducer mounted to the outboard with a homemade bracket.

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Brauer’s tournament tactics for big bass

The common practice is to catch the five bass permitted daily, regardless of size, then start looking for larger fish. Brauer, by contrast, targets larger bass from the moment the first practice day begins.

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Advanced worm fishing

In this article, you can read how the plastic worm is one of the earliest artificial bass baits developed, and serious anglers learn early how to fish it. Anglers Wendlandt, Martens and Daves have developed their own rules for using plastic worms.

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