Hunting Early Morning Giants
Monday, 15 July 2024
It’s mid-July. The daytime surface temperatures typically reach 75 to 80 degrees, often exceeding that. Summer peak is on. Consequently, the daytime fishing efforts aren’t paying off, as the
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Selecting for Specimens
Thursday, 20 June 2024
The first assignment for this challenge is identifying the true trophy bass lakes that have viable populations of smallmouths weighing 5 lbs. or more. Many inland northern waters throughout
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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
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Attacking Staging Sites
Monday, 20 May 2024
At this time, smallmouths are schooling together and stacked; programmed to undertake structural migrations to where they will stage and set-up in preparation for their spawn which could be
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Shallow Wood and Sand Patterns
Monday, 13 May 2024
The most active smallmouths will attract to lake regions that are warming. The shallows with ideal bottom substrate and exposure to sun warm rapidly. They could be up to
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River Smallmouths Early and Late
Monday, 22 April 2024
My region’s river systems provide some of the best and most exciting smallmouth fishing early and late in the year. This year (2024), will remain to be seen, as
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Location-Driven Largemouths
Monday, 15 April 2024
In my region, the spring season is short and condensed, lasting from ice-out through spawn. Its duration varies each year, as it relates to both.
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Window Fishing
Monday, 08 April 2024
Successful fishing is all about right time, right place. The right time and place for my boat to catch the biggest fish of the year is in May, and
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Early Season Backwaters and Ditches
Monday, 18 March 2024
From shallow sloughs and oxbows winding off of major river systems, to the slop-choked bays and flood plains of lowland flowages, and the ditches and small creeks inletting into
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