10 Spinnerbait Tips | Hank Parker | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

10 Spinnerbait Tips | Hank Parker | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "’s no secret I love to fish a spinnerbait.  I’m convinced it’s second only to the worm in terms of versatility and productivity.
   Not everyone agrees.  People tell me they never catch fish on a spinnerbait, even though they’ve tried slow rolling it along drop-offs and crashing it through brush tops.  For those with a similar story, perhaps you’re using the wrong spinnerbait design or not fishing it where bass are.  Here are 10 tips "

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Erie’s Early Spring Bronze Hawgs | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Erie’s Early Spring Bronze Hawgs | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "You’ve likely heard chatter about smallmouth bass growth rates in Lake Erie’s eastern basin and the big numbers of oversized bronzebacks caught-and-released by anglers each spring. Most of it’s true, there are few places on earth where you can catch as many big smallies as here, and it’s something you need to experience."

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The Daily Advance

The Daily Advance: "When I am fishing for largemouth or stripers, I have always got a crank bait tied on one of my rods.

A crank bait is basically a hard bait with a bill that is usually shaped kind of like a football, and the bill will make the bait dive down to a certain depth and stay there while it is being retrieved."

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Slip Floats And Dark-Side Walleyes | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Slip Floats And Dark-Side Walleyes | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Walleyes have something in common with bats and owls – they’re more suited to nighttime activities than the glare of the noonday sun. They’d rather live in Moonglade than the Land of the Eternal Sunshine. Under certain conditions, such as following cold fronts, calm days or during unusually hot weather, walleyes are driven to the dark side by the bazillions."

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Not leaving Alabama Rig without bite

Not leaving Alabama Rig without bite: "t’s been over a year now and I’m still trying to catch my first fish on an Alabama Rig. I’m sure a lot of you know by now that the Alabama Rig has become one of the hottest new baits on the market. If you don’t, an Internet search will surely clue you in to its potential. "

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Spring Frogs for Bass

Spring Frogs for Bass: " Now that the water is finally warming after a late start to spring the bass are beginning to move up on the humps and ledges and to and from shallow spawning areas as the water temperature rises between 49 and 53 degrees. I am seeing pictures of some nice bass from around North America and that tells me that it will not be long until the spawn is on. "

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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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Tips on How to Fish for Crappie - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com

Tips on How to Fish for Crappie - Yahoo! Voices - voices.yahoo.com: "If you enjoy catching fish, then it will be really fun if you learn how to fish for crappie . You can catch buckets of them on each fishing trip. However, if you're not skilled at fishing for crappie, then it can be a long and uneventful outing. I will help by showing you some tips and techniques for crappie fishing."

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