Tracking Growth Rates of Your Fish | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Tracking Growth Rates of Your Fish | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "If I've heard this once, I've heard it hundreds of times. "I want to grow the biggest bass on the planet!"
   As a professional fisheries biologist in the private sector, part of my job with clients is to help teach practical ways to track growth rates of their fish. Sure, you can catch fish and use common sense."

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The Finer Points of Punching Mats | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

The Finer Points of Punching Mats | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Two bass fishing tactics are commonly used to pull big bass from massive grass mats, throwing a hollow body frog for those fish willing to smash through the “roof,” and punching through the grass for those holding below. If bass aren’t hitting the top, the choice is already made. Put up your dukes and start punchin’."

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Best crappie fishing of the year | Cedar Springs Post Newspaper

Best crappie fishing of the year | Cedar Springs Post Newspaper: "Tap, tap and down went the rod tip. Another crappie fallen to the Mr. Twister tail. We use the Mr. Twister tail, the Charlie Brewer Crappie Grub or the Beatle spins two ways. First is straight out of the package, spinner and all. The second way we remove the jig head and action tail from the spinner."

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The Split Shot Rig | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

The Split Shot Rig | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "The split shot rig is a finesse version of a fish finding rig along the lines of the Carolina rig. Too many anglers dismiss this method as being too slow or a small fish method. The truth is that it is a deadly finesse method that can cover water as efficiently and as quickly as the Carolina rig. The split shot method also is a great way to catch limits of keeper sized bass. What tournament angler could dispute the success of that?"

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Staying in the Shallows for Michigan Bluegill | OutdoorHub

Staying in the Shallows for Michigan Bluegill | OutdoorHub: "For most of the last decade, I’ve been fishing for bluegills a day or two a year with Denny Hettig, who has developed a simple trolling approach that is not only incredibly productive, but also almost idiotproof. So imagine my surprise when we pushed off the bank on small Van Buren County lake recently and Hettig handed me a rod rigged with a bobber."

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Spider rigging can be successful as black crappies enter the pre-spawn - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Spider rigging can be successful as black crappies enter the pre-spawn - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "JAMESTOWN, Pa. -- The southern end of Pymatuning Reservoir, in Crawford County between the dam and the nearby Ohio state line, is richly contoured with shallow bays that warm faster than the main body of the lake. Like the north end bays, they become prime crappie spawning waters in the spring when subsurface temperatures reach 56 to 64 degrees."

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Smallies Forced to Take One for the Team on Mille Lacs Lake | OutdoorHub

Smallies Forced to Take One for the Team on Mille Lacs Lake | OutdoorHub: "Schizophrenic Department of Natural Resources (DNR) regulations have bass anglers up in arms about one of the hottest lakes in Minnesota’s North Country, Lake Mille Lacs. A tremendous trophy smallmouth fishery, recent drastic changes have one primary goal in mind: improve the walleye population. At the risk of sounding like a Smothers Brothers sitcom routine with “Mom always liked you better,” it seems the walleye has won that brotherly slugfest. Only here “Mom” is the Minnesota DNR."

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Jacksonville Daily Progress : GONE FISHING WITH Jerry Miller: Targeting Bass During the Shad Spawn

Jacksonville Daily Progress : GONE FISHING WITH Jerry Miller: Targeting Bass During the Shad Spawn: " I’ve always been told: find the bait fish and you will find the bass.  This is a true statement.  But what do you do when fishing a big area of the lake and find bait fish scattered everywhere?"

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The Smart Fisherman’s Bass Fishing Techniques - Fishing Report

The Smart Fisherman’s Bass Fishing Techniques - Fishing Report: "Fishing makes nice fun ! Whether or not you fish to produce a living or for pure hobby, you've got to actually be as smart just like a fisherman ought to.
Every smart fisherman has his own fishing suggestions that enable him to actually catch the fish he is well known regarding his goaled to actually."

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Best Largemouth Bass Fishing - Whitefish Chain - 2013 Best of MN | StarTribune.com

Best Largemouth Bass Fishing - Whitefish Chain - 2013 Best of MN | StarTribune.com: "On a summer night deep in the heart of Minnesota’s resort country, stop in the town of Crosslake at Moonlight Bay, a onetime dance hall originally built in 1933, and now a restaurant and bar with outside seating for, well, lots."

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