Top 5 Baits for Potholes Reservoir in April
Hollow Bodied Frog Bass will attack frogs even in the spring. It may not be your main weapon, but it should be something you come…
Shimano Curado DC Review
As many of you know there is wide range of casting reels on the market today. Anywhere from color, size, innovation, availability (ADM vs JDM),…
5 Reasons Why Potholes Reservoir Will Continue to Frustrate You
You Will Get Overwhelmed With The “Eye Candy” Potholes is famous for inducing the “Potholes Wander” where you run around on your trolling motor, flailing…
Springtime Wrecking Blade
If I had to pick one bait that not many people throw that is a huge weapon in the spring, it would be the chartreuse/white…
Early Spring at Crow Butte
Clark, October 20, 1805 … A cool morning wind S. W. we concluded to delay untill after brackfast which we were obliged to make on…
New Toys
By mid-morning we were watching the latest snowfall. She got up off the couch and told me she was going out to a fabric store.…
Going Braid – Q&A
What if I don’t have any issues with using either fluorocarbon or mono, why do I need to switch? You don’t. Some anglers do just…
Going Braid
About ten years ago, frustrated with how fluorocarbon lines were performing, I decided to just try and use braided line on all my baitcasters. Here’s…
Evolution of a Bass Fisherman
I may not be a great bass fisherman but I have become a bass fisherman. It’s funny how many of us have people we look…
Top Lessons Learned…Or Re-Learned
There is Much Left to Discover I have been fishing one particular area of the Columbia River for over 20 years. Thought I knew it…
Settling In
I retired some three years ago. Although most of the readership hasn’t quite reached that epic part of life, here are some thoughts: It takes…
Spawning Smallmouth – Lessons Learned
Below is a video summary of a why smalllmouth fishing on beds is not as easy as many make it out to be. There are…
Over Reacting
Prespawn and spawning bass enter a phase will they will NOT chase down a horizontal presentation. What was the “ticket” a week earlier, is suddenly…
The Day Before
Sometimes you aren't able to practice or "prefish" at all. Sometimes you can practice the day before a tournament. Without looking at how misguided ei…
Prespawn Staging(s)
Traditionally we are taught to think of the winter to spawn transition like this: Winter Prespawn (staging) Spawn But like so much of bass fishing lo…