New device/app could turn your smartphone into a fishfinder

New device/app could turn your smartphone into a fishfinder: "Your smartphone and/or tablet can do just about everything else, why can’t they help you catch fish? Well, if the Deeper fishfinder ends up being commercially produced, they will be able to. The floating device would be paired with the user’s Android or iOS device, and would let them know if fish were in the area."

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New York DEC Announces First State Record Fish for 2012

New York DEC Announces First State Record Fish for 2012: "For the seventh time in eight years, the record for catching the largest brook trout in New York state was recently broken, state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Joe Martens announced today. William Altman caught a 5 lb. 14 oz. brook trout from the West Canada Wilderness Area in Hamilton County on May 5."

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Worm Fishing | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Worm Fishing | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "One of the most important tools every bass angler should have is a working knowledge of the basics of fishing plastic worms. Throughout bass fishing history, some of the greatest wins have been because of the plastic worm. Those of you who are new to sport need to know about worm fishing and some of us who have been involved for years sometimes need to look back at the basics to find our game again."

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Aquatic Plants— Love/Hate Relationships | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Aquatic Plants— Love/Hate Relationships | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Early on in my fisheries career, I was convinced aquatic plants in a pond were bad. After all, I was trained as an aquaculturist, taught to grow as many fish as possible in a given body of water. And, for a fish hatchery that raises one species of fish in a pond, that's still the norm. No aquatic plants."

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Bass Attacks Fisherman and Gets Caught

Bass Attacks Fisherman and Gets Caught: "Don’t put your hands in that water, or the bass will bite you,” Barry Smith of American Sport Fish Hatchery, in Montgomery, Alabama, would tell his employees, when the men came around a tank full of genetically-engineered Tiger Bass."

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Shallow Bassin' | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Shallow Bassin' | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "When I was a youngster I got to hear a Cajun fishing guide on Caddo Lake explain his philosophy of bass fishing. Simply put if the water was over the depth of his push pole, it was too deep. The lake is, in many parts, a typical bayou. Cypress islands dot the surface and narrow feeder channels wind through the forests into the main Cypress Bayou channel."

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Shimano's bass product line | Bassmaster

Shimano's bass product line | Bassmaster:

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20 Questions with Mike Iaconelli | Bassmaster

20 Questions with Mike Iaconelli | Bassmaster: "B.A.S.S.
Mike Iaconelli has truly done it all in the world of professional bass fishing. He's a former Bassmaster Classic champion, a Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year, a B.A.S.S. Federation Nation Championship winner, he's won over $1 million in prize money and weighed in over 100 pounds in a tournament. The only he hadn't done was face our 20 Questions ... until now."

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End Frustrating Spinning Reel Tangles | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

End Frustrating Spinning Reel Tangles | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "He's qualified for 29 Bassmaster Classics. He's won two Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year titles. He's also watched a lot of amateur spinning reel users come unspooled. "People fail to pay attention at the end of the cast," says legendary angler Gary Klein. For him, avoiding dreaded spinning reel tangles is a matter of habit -- the habit of manually flipping the bail closed."

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Top Water Smallmouth Bass Fishing

Top Water Smallmouth Bass Fishing: "If you have never experienced the thrill of top water smallmouth bass fishing, then you haven’t lived. Just don’t take up this style of fishing if you are recovering from a heart attack or have high cholesterol, lol!"

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