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Fishing Cover For Spring Smallies

Posted on May 1, 2021May 2, 2021 By PracticalAngler No Comments on Fishing Cover For Spring Smallies

practical smallmouth fishingMention spring and sight fishing in the same sentence and most anglers vision targeting spawning smallmouth and largemouth bass around their beds…

Though sight fishing for spawners is a common spring approach, there’s another tactic that can be just as productive throughout the spring season…

Sight fishing visible structure for migrating smallies as they cruise the shallows during their spring rituals as explained by Doug Stange of InFisherman TV in the following video…

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Downsizing Your Baits for More Spring Bass

Posted on April 11, 2021May 2, 2021 By PracticalAngler No Comments on Downsizing Your Baits for More Spring Bass

Fishing for bedding bass provides many anglers their best opportunity to catch a trophy bass. Though spawning bass are usually easy to spot against their fanned-out beds, catching them can often be frustrating …

Most bass fisherman revert to standard bass baits (jigs, worms and sometimes topwaters) when fishing for bedding bass and more recently specialized sinking worms and soft-stickbaits.

Depending on the stage of the spawn, bedding bass can be aggravated into striking or moving “conventional-sized” bass lures.  Much of the time, however, bedding bass will refuse most of the normal-sized morsels dropped into their liar.

When encountering those times when bass are reluctant to strike normal-sized offerings, down-sizing your lure selection increases success for bedding bass!

Three Mini-baits To Cure Bedding Bass Blues …

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Drop-Shotting for Post Spawn Bass

Posted on March 16, 2021April 18, 2021 By PracticalAngler No Comments on Drop-Shotting for Post Spawn Bass

A favorite bass fishing tip for post spawn bass is to use a rig many anglers overlook, drop-shotting soft plastics along edge of drop-offs. Drop-shot rigs are far more versatile than many bass fishermen believe but drop-shotting the shallow to deep water transition edges will produce quality post spawn females looking for an easy meal….

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How To Avoid Fishing Beds During The Spawn

Posted on May 19, 2020April 20, 2021 By PracticalAngler No Comments on How To Avoid Fishing Beds During The Spawn

practical bass fishingA couple of incidences got me thinking about an approach I often use when heading out to my favorite bass haunts throughout the spring season…

Though springtime and bass equate to cruising the shallows in search of fish around spawning flats for many anglers a few of us take a different approach when starting our trips…

Best part of this approach… it avoids putting more pressure on bedding bass!

What’s so different about my approach?

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