Clear in spring and green by late summer, algae blooms are an annual occurrence throughout the north – most common to the highly fertile and vegetation-rich flowages, drainage lakes,

  Largemouths love edges, and the most desirable fish I catch during the dog days come from shallow cover within close range to shore – the inner edge.

  Opportunistic predators with voracious appetites, largemouth bass will eat whatever living creatures swim and slither atop matted weeds or across the lake’s surface. With our lakes gaining weed cover

  The Tokyo Rig first came on the scene in 2018. It originated as a finesse rig for pressured bass known as “The Jika Rig”, which is an EWG hook

  Most anglers will see a lake’s shoreline, but what I see is a littoral zone edge. 

  Small lakes located deep in the woods and far away from civilization contain a special allure and fascinating aura about them. The attraction I have to these fisheries is

  Horizontal presentations that can elicit reactionary strikes but also engage bass into chasing them down is the madness behind the Chatterbait game. But choosing and operating the bladed jig