Breaking Down an Upland Reservoir
When things seem big and overwhelming, it’s time to break them down into smaller, more manageable parts. That’s the topic for today…picking a key characteristic…
Category: Tactics
What I Learned in 2019
As I think back on last year’s season I’m pretty amazed at all the new information I picked up on. Now, I’m anxious to take…
Mixed Bag Tournament Strategies
If you are blessed enough to fish on a river, reservoir or lake that has both Largemouth (LM) and Smallmouth (SM) present, and you also…
Prespawn Rules
One of the most important keys to locating good “spots” or the “juice” as some like to call it, is to understand the role that…
Dealing with Ice-Out Turnover
Ice-Out turnover is not a new phenomena, but depending on where you live, maybe you are just noticing it. Simply put, the turnover, or mixing…
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…
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…
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…
Tackle Tuesday – One Treble Trap
A silent copper trap made of wood? All of our favorite things in a homemade bait. As evidenced below, it works too. We began converting…
Prespawn Preparation
The video details a systematic approach to locating potential prespawn areas using Google Earth. Important points: This approach will work on any body of water anywhere…
How to Pace & Position When Fishing Shallow Cover
In a recent series, National Championship, I spent some time describing how important it was to work cover a certain way while flipping/pitching. The video above…
Why Big Smallmouth Are Different
Here's why trophy smallmouth are unique and what you can do to increase your odds of catching one.