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Top Lures and Tactics for Early Summer Largemouths
07 June 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
What We’re Throwing in June
03 June 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Smallmouth Bass
The Importance of Wood to Smallmouths
26 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Fishing Rock Shoals for Spring Smallmouths
16 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Hotspots for Spring Largemouths
09 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth BassSMALLMOUTH BASS

What We’re Throwing in June
03 June 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews, Smallmouth Bass
The Importance of Wood to Smallmouths
26 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Fishing Rock Shoals for Spring Smallmouths
16 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Catching Shallow Sand Smallmouths
05 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Signs of a Good Fishing Day This Spring
02 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth BassLARGEMOUTH BASS

Top Lures and Tactics for Early Summer Largemouths
07 June 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Hotspots for Spring Largemouths
09 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
The Best Early Season Largemouth Fisheries
02 May 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Short Stories and Timely Tips
Revised Top Tips for Early Spring Largemouths
21 April 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
My Best Swim Jigs
01 April 2025 By Northwoods Bass in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth BassLargemouth Junk Strategies
Thursday, 01 August 2024
Across northern lakes, largemouths tend to seek the deepest edges and weed cover available, but where dense shallow cover is available, fish will also gravitate to these lake areas as well. Largemouths thrive in slop, utilizing it for their living quarters and prolific feeding. In these locations, largemouths frequently hunt for small prey that
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Green Water and Eutrophic Lakes
Monday, 29 July 2024
Largemouths are comfortable in warmer, shallower waters. They are also efficient predators in algal bloom conditions. Come mid-summer under 78-to-82-degree water temps., largemouths from these waters feed heavily to maintain their robust weights.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
Patterns for Mid Summer Giants
Monday, 22 July 2024
There is no bad time to catch big largemouths in mid-summer, because they are prolific feeders with voracious appetites, and tolerate well to summertime heat. If I had to identify the best summer season windows, they are the bluegill spawn in June, the establishment of deep green weeds at summer’s peak, and the offshore
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Largemouth Bass
#NoScope Moping
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Somewhere out there, out in the uncharted and unexplored abyss of the deepest, coldest, and clearest inland lakes, an open water world exists where offshore roaming predators hunt together and follow around pelagic prey.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Smallmouth Audibles
Monday, 01 July 2024
Calling an audible is a term in football, referring to when the quarterback has to change a play at the last minute in response to how the opposing team is lining up. Usually, the quarterback doesn’t like what he sees. This last-minute strategy change is dependent upon his ability to read the opponent, and
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
The Best Fishing Boat Upgrades
Monday, 01 July 2024
Today’s marine market has priced out most serious anglers and consumers. Whether seeking an aluminum deep-V or flat bottom jon, or a fiberglass bass boat or multi-species hull, acquiring any boat type from every manufacturer is expensive, as will be the cost of its ownership. To buy a new boat nowadays, one must have
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Gear Reviews
Smallmouth Fish Finders
Monday, 17 June 2024
Nothing is simpler on the water than slinging a search lure and catching whatever bites. My fish-finding strategy is all about getting paddletails to wiggle, shimmy, and swim lively throughout the entire water column on a medium to steady retrieve.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
Surface Snacks for the Mayfly Hatch
Monday, 03 June 2024
Calm humid nights preceding warm windless mornings in mid-June cultivate the greatest aquatic food chain reaction feeding phenomenon of the year – the mayfly hatch.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass
Reading the River
Saturday, 01 June 2024
A river doesn’t just carry water – It carries life. To smallmouths and all other fish species residing in them, a river’s water level and flow rate will dictate their seasonal migrations, locations, habitats, feeding, and all other variables to the fish-catching formula you could think of!
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Smallmouth Bass