THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE FISHING LIBRARY FOR WISCONSIN BASS FISHING
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Fishing tips and short stories by Andrew Ragas. In this open-access section, we share timely and useful information. The most comprehensive bass fishing library for Wisconsin bass fishing and across the Midwest.
September is My Favorite Smallmouth Month
Monday, 11 September 2023
September is a month of transition and changing of seasons. With shortening daylight and colder nights, the entire food chain reacts and acclimates to these changes. On many clear water fisheries with sand bottom composition, trophy smallmouth return the shallows where they are most comfortable in cooling waters, and roam sand beaches.
- Published in Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
A Quick How-To for Pressured Smallmouth Waters
Monday, 28 August 2023
Many of the best inland smallmouth fisheries happen to be the most pressured lakes in the state of Wisconsin. Their trophy bass are more elusive as a result. I am not a fan of fishing pressure and high traffic water, but pursuing hot bites throughout the year brings me to these fisheries. It used
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips
A Swimbait Concoction for Open Water Smallmouths
Monday, 14 August 2023
During the past decade, I’ve prioritized learning and focusing my time on open water fishing tactics for smallmouth bass. Prior to then, this was something I hadn’t done much of. What spurred me to this was the realization of how lakes and smallmouth fisheries are cyclical and slowly evolving. Lakes that might have been
- Published in Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
Hey Ribbit! Ribbit! Ribbit!
Friday, 04 August 2023
Frogs are fantastic baits in heavy vegetation. Utilizing a surface-running soft plastic frog around lily pads and atop mats of slop is exhilarating as bass come out of the water to engulf the lure. The distinctive feature of frogs is that their hooks and riggings are weedless and there are no protrusions or sharp
- Published in Largemouth Bass, Short Stories and Timely Tips
Surface Smallmouths with Rapala’s X-Rap Pop
Friday, 21 July 2023
Topwaters and surface baits, longtime bass fishing staples, are popular for smallmouths. They are hard to beat when surface activity is prevalent, the lakes are heating up from the sunlight above, and insect hatches take place.
- Published in Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
Fishing The Post-Spawn Flats
Monday, 12 June 2023
When seeking quality post-spawn fish in June, I turn to the largest and deepest lakes in the region where we target their expansive flats and look for very good near-shore habitat.
- Published in Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
Soft Jerkbaits for Smallmouths
Monday, 05 June 2023
When it comes to jerkbait fishing, smallmouth anglers should always bring a handful of soft bait minnows for the party. Equally effective for smallmouths, and sometimes even better depending on fish activity levels, soft jerkbaits in the fluke style can be fished with the same cadence as a hard jerkbait to draw strikes. It
- Published in Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
Rivers and Flowages for Spring Smallmouths
Monday, 08 May 2023
Each spring, I preach fishing waters that warm fastest. To catch potentially the most active fish, and to tap into premier smallmouth fisheries whose populations are further and deeper established into the spawning season, I always fish and guide on the larger river systems and their flowages to begin the season.
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION!
Monday, 10 April 2023
After ice-out, smallmouth undertake structural migrations from wintering sites to their staging locations, utilizing the lake’s contours and breaklines as their trail in order to reach these temporary destinations. Where they stage and hold until water temperature becomes ideal for invading the shallows will often be situated within a close range from their spawning
- Published in Bass Fishing Articles, Short Stories and Timely Tips, Smallmouth Bass
