10 Things That Make Your Day A Lot Easier | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

10 Things That Make Your Day A Lot Easier | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Nothing spoils a day on the water like equipment hassles. If you are a tournament angler a problem like tangled line or a crankbait stuck in the carpet can cost you valuable time. Even if you are simply fishing for fun those kinds of issues can put you in a bad mood and affect your fishing. But cheer up! There are tons of inexpensive gadgets to help make an angler’s life easier. Here are some of my favorites."



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Smallmouth Bass Fishing Tips & Articles - Learning How To Fish

Smallmouth Bass Fishing Tips & Articles - Learning How To Fish: "If your fishing Smallmouth Bass find cool clear water with a abundance of crayfish, and when you hook a Smallmouth be prepared for spectacular leaps and determined dives unrivaled among freshwater fish. Smallmouth Bass before the early 1900’s where found primarily in the Great Lakes and Eastern, Central States river systems. But over time they where introduced in Western and Northern States through stocking programs in natural lakes and rivers along with the highly successful introduction in Southern Canadian Shield clear, rocky, cool lakes and rivers. The world record is 10 pounds 14 ounces caught in Tennessee on Dale Hollow Reservoir in 1969."



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Denny Brauer's Jig Tips | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Denny Brauer's Jig Tips | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "While weather and water conditions constantly change during the Wal-Mart FLW Tour season, Denny Brauer's approach to catching bass rarely wavers. Whether the skies are sunny or cloudy or the water is clear or muddy, one thing is certain. Brauer will have a jig tied to at least one of his rods."



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Working Deep Cranks | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Working Deep Cranks | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "If you are going to fish deeper water for bass, folks often will think of using a weighted soft plastic like a worm, lizard or jig. However the same major advantage that a crankbait has in working shallow-water bass applies to deeper water areas. This of course is the ability to cover greater areas of water in a given period of time. The speed of covering given types of cover, and depths allow you the critical advantage of working through variables which enable you to establish a reproducible pattern."



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Gnarly Crankbaiting | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Gnarly Crankbaiting | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "It looks like a nightmare for a treble hook - twisted stumps, stickups, deadfalls and water so shallow that a diving lip is sure to dig a furrow. It brings new meaning to the expression "knock on wood" because you'll need all the luck you can muster just to avoid getting snagged."



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Trapping A Bass | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Trapping A Bass | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "In our ongoing quest to find new and improved ways to catch more bass, sometimes the answer is right before our very eyes. So often the most effective means of boating more fish is so simple, we overlook it. Chances are it is right in front of you, but you don't see it. It's like not being able to see the forest through the trees, so to speak"



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Crashing Crankbaits | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Crashing Crankbaits | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Nine out of ten times, when an angler hears the word "crankbait", the immediate picture that comes to mind is a large-lipped, deep-diver in a clear, obstruction-free, open-lake water. Not so. If by the end of this article, I manage to convince you that this is not the only application to use such crankbaits, then I have done my job. What we're discussing here just ain't your daddy's crankbaits, anymore!"



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Rat-L-Trap Colors | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Rat-L-Trap Colors | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Well, we all asked for it and the lure companies gave it to us. I'm talking about all the different colors lures come in today. How many of us have called lure companies and said. "If you would just add a little green on the back, this lure would kill em." We are all guilty.
   The truth is that we do need a good selection of colors and, they are fun in the tackle shop. However, with a few tips you can keep it fairly simple."



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Don't Give 'Em No Lip! | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Don't Give 'Em No Lip! | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "When I first became introduced to the lipless crankbait I was primarily in the "farm pond" phase of my fishing career. When I could get off after school or during the summer, my trusty (?) 1947 four-cylinder Willis would hit the county roads of Lamar and Red River county finding as many folks as possible who would let a kid cast in their farm pond. "



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Find 'Em and Catch 'Em On Crankbaits | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Find 'Em and Catch 'Em On Crankbaits | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "You can catch fish on a crankbait just by throwing it out and cranking it back in. It’s so easy a child could do it. In fact, a lot of anglers consider crankbaits idiot baits. It is true that a simple retrieve will catch, but if your goal is to catch a lot of bass on a crankbait it pays to learn a few tricks."



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