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Early Spring Swimbait Fish

ShareSpring is fast approaching the West Coast. In the Southern portions of the country its already arrived. If you’ve missed all the previous posts don’t miss this one: Its time to target big pre-spawners. As big bass move toward the spawning areas they become very vulnerable. They often follow distinct features like creek channels, breaks, [...]

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Solo Swimbait Fishing

ShareAfter my previous post I feel its important to remind everyone that swimbaiting is not always difficult. Through the ups and downs remember that another “up” is on its way. This video was from my very next trip to the water. I pulled up to my first spot and made the very first cast of [...]

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Swimbaits Part 5: Endurance

ShareWhen watching this site or reading forum discussion its easy to fall into the trap that big fish are always easy to catch. Don’t get me wrong, there are periods where it is a cinch and anyone can do it, but there are also those “other” days. The other days are the ones we don’t [...]

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Winter Swimbait Retrieves

ShareSo you’ve decided its finally time to throw a swimbait. You head to your local lake and begin casting the bait around your favorite haunts. You visit a point or two, that break you caught those jig fish on last week, but its been 2 hours, 14 minutes, and 3… make that 4 seconds and [...]

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Take a kid fishing

ShareI spent the last week scoping out water, talking to friends, watching the weather, and anything else I could think of so that my nephew would have a great time when we went fishing. Game day came and the weather was perfect, we practically had the lake to ourselves and there were fish all over [...]

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Top 5 baits for the Fall Transition

ShareThe late fall to early winter is one of my favorite times to fish. This season is one of the few times I have the lake all to myself. Sure, there are other fisherman on the water but they aren’t fishing like I am. No matter where you are in the country, as winter approaches [...]

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Wakebaits in Winter

ShareHow many times have you heard that there is a certain water temperature when the topwater bite starts and that its a waste of time to throw topwater in the dead of winter? I for one do not agree! I’m a firm believer in throwing topwater year round, especially on a warm winter afternoon. This [...]

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