Friday, April 5, 2013

Joe Everett's 4 tips for the bass of a lifetime | Bassmaster

Joe Everett's 4 tips for the bass of a lifetime | Bassmaster: "Joe Everett is a man on a mission. The Southern California angler is a trophy hunter — one of a legion of anglers trying, hoping, wishing to catch the next world record largemouth bass. Along his way to that goal, Everett has caught so many 10-pound, 12-pound and even 15-pound bass that he no longer counts or targets them. After all, they're not the fish he's after."

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The forage connection | Bassmaster

The forage connection | Bassmaster: "odd Driscoll, a district fisheries biologist for Texas Parks and Wildlife, competes in nearly three dozen bass tournaments a year. Driscoll has learned that performing well at the scales is dependent on his ability to find the big bite — and that the big bite is often directly connected to the life cycles of the forage bass feed on. "

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How to Buy a Fishing Rod

How to Buy a Fishing Rod: "Every good fishing product resulted as the sum of good materials, good engineering and good construction. Fishing rods possess a unique ability to show off great materials and manufacturing yet it still seems so few anglers understand what goes into a rod and what they should consider in how to buy a fishing rod.  We recently spoke with Jeff Schluter, VP of Sales and Marketing for St. Croix Rods. St. Croix has been building rods from the blanks to the finished product stateside for 65 years, so we figured they would be a perfect resource for understanding the terms in fishing rods. "

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