Small Texas Town Ready to Welcome Anglers after Drought Breaks | OutdoorHub

Small Texas Town Ready to Welcome Anglers after Drought Breaks | OutdoorHub: "The tiny town of Castell, Texas was hard struck by the persistent drought that affected Texas Hill Country in recent years, but heavy rain and the stocking of trout in the nearby Llano River promise to make the area a hit with fly fishermen this winter."

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Boating Etiquette On and Off the Water | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Boating Etiquette On and Off the Water | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Boat etiquette on and off the water is an ever-increasing issue. Ask any boater what they perceive to be the biggest issue on the water, and they will inevitably go into a story about an inconsiderate boater. And many times this will occur at the launch ramp before the boater even gets on the water. As our waterways become more crowded, this issue increases."

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Know Your Fishing Reels | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Know Your Fishing Reels | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Take the reels off the rods and place them on some newspaper on the kitchen table. Pick each one up, one at a time. Does the reel fit in your hand comfortably? Is it too large?
   If the reel feels oversized, consider there are several smaller versions of those larger reels on the market today. The casting reel gear ratios are the same as their big brothers, and are easier for small hands to use. It is true that you can not put as much line on these smaller reels. However, you will fish more comfortably and cast more accurately if the reel fits your hand."

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Spinnerbait Basics | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Spinnerbait Basics | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Probably the most universal artificial bait used by both tournament anglers and the weekend fisherman is the spinnerbait. You can flip it like a jig into heavy cover or work it along laydowns and in treetops like a Texas-rigged worm. It can be waked across the top of the water like a buzzbait or run it one to three feet deep like a Rat-L-Trap. You can let it fall down deeper like a medium- to deep-diving crankbait or slow roll it across the bottom. This is just about the most versatile lure you can carry in your boat."

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Winter Jig Fishing | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Winter Jig Fishing | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "It's time to slow down our presentation as the water cools and look to the jig or a Texas-rigged worm or craw on those really cold days. Bass will move deeper as the water cools to establish their winter base of operation. The deeper coves with a defined creek channel, longer points that drop off into secondary or primary creek channels, or a shoreline where the bottom has a fast drop off, causing a stair step effect are the best places to start exploring for action. The other primary factor that needs to be in all of these spots is wood. Bass tend to prefer wood in the colder months."

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Timeless Fishing Tips | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Timeless Fishing Tips | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Bass fishing as we know it is still rather a new thing. Before competition became a part of it, it was a recreation mostly practiced in the springtime and mostly early in the mornings and late in the afternoons. Competition did for bass fishing what it does for everything else. It made it grow tremendously in every way, from effort to knowledge to technology to equipment to results.
   For decades, fishermen have learned from the abilities, talents, innovations, and accomplishments of anglers before them."

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Enjoy fishing? Free trout fishing clinic set for Jan. 10 | KFOR.com

Enjoy fishing? Free trout fishing clinic set for Jan. 10 | KFOR.com: "OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma City Parks and Recreation Department will host a FREE trout fishing clinic on Friday, January 10, 2014 from 7 – 8:30 p.m. at the Putnam City High School Gymnasium, 5300 NW 50th Street."

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An Ice Fishing Primer | OutdoorHub

An Ice Fishing Primer | OutdoorHub: "Mother Nature has jumped the gun across much of the nation, offering winter conditions before the official onset of the season and giving ice fishermen their earliest chance in years to get out on the ice and enjoy their favorite winter sport."

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Ice Fishermen Rescue Man after Snowmobile Crashes Through Ice | OutdoorHub

Ice Fishermen Rescue Man after Snowmobile Crashes Through Ice | OutdoorHub: "Three anglers fishing on the ice of Alaska’s Wasilla Lake found themselves in a position to help on Monday, saving the life of one snowmobile driver after he had fallen through the ice. According to the Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, officials described the corner of the lake where the accident occurred as problematic due to consistently thin ice."

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Hair for Cold Water River Bronzebacks | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC

Hair for Cold Water River Bronzebacks | The Ultimate Bass Fishing Resource Guide® LLC: "Seasoned largemouth bass anglers profess that for large bass throughout the seasons, a rubber or silicon-skirted jig with a pork or plastic trailer is hard to beat.
   For that other "black bass", however, hair is the way to go. Smallmouth bass inhabiting most rivers in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast prefer hair jigs to silicon or rubber skirted jigs, hands down. It has been a popular mistruth over the years that smallmouth do not eat or that they lay dormant when the water temperature holds in the 30's, as it does during the cold water winter period. The cold water period is an excellent time for anglers to catch trophy river smallmouth bass, and a hair jig is frequently the most productive lure."

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