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Mention 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…
It’s the time of year when many fishermen will seek big bass as all members of the bass family move to the banks to spawn around the major moon phases during May. The astute bass angler will pay close attention to the major and minor activity periods by studying the alignment of celestial bodies compiled…
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Here’s a great tip to both help catch more smallmouths this spring and explosive strikes at the same time …
It’s definitely a little slice of springtime smallmouth fishing paradise!
The technique involves fishing buzzbaits for smallmouth bass once the water temp approaches 50 degrees and continues right through the spring season.
The pattern is actually very straight forward and targets staging smallies as they
Take the time to read several articles or books on spring bass fishing and one thing is certain; they will all mention you should use spinnerbaits for spring bass success!
Educating yourself on spinnerbait basics, one of the primary spring bass fishing baits, will increase the number and size of bass you catch.
Here we are heading our way into the third month of the year in the north country and most of the bass anglers are really starting to notice the longer days and Sun rising in the afternoon sky. Even in years like this when the local lakes have been frozen for months, feeling the increasing…
It’s springtime (or so the calendar says 😉 )…
That time of year for bass and other gamefish to move shallow as the prepare to re-produce…
Though staging bass can often be fairly easy to catch, spawning fish, especially largemouths often present a challenge to the bed fisherman…
Even though some bedding bass maybe stubborn, understanding the signals they provide as they cruise around the nest area and the lure presentations required to make them strike is key to success…
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 …