Sight Fishing When They’re Not Bedding
The first thing everyone thinks of when you say sight fishing is spawning, says Elite Series pro, Shaw Grigsby. In clear water situations you can sight fish all year long.
Pinpointing Productive Grass
It might be one of the first bass fishing axioms an angler learns: "Where there's grass, there's bass." Unfortunately, as Elite Series pro Greg Hackney points out, not all grass mats are created equal. In fact, if you're not fishing the most productive areas of a particular mat, you might as well be throwing rocks.
Fishing new waters
You've planned a vacation to a body of water you don't know well. Going to a large, unfamiliar lake can be intimidating, but my system will help you figure out a lake in a short period of time.
Day on the Lake LIVE: Bobby Lane
In this episode of Day on the Lake LIVE, Elite Series pro Bobby Lane fishes a private phosphate pit in central Florida and answers viewer questions in real time.
Miserable weather and the 2011 Classic
I'll tell you that it never gets too nasty to go fishing, but it has come darn close this past week. The weather has been miserable.
KVD: Dissecting offshore humps
Watching Kevin VanDam fish during the postspawn and summer months on lakes like Kentucky and Guntersville, it would appear to the untrained eye that the Michigan pro is lost, helplessly flailing at open water.
KVD: The importance of trailers
When it comes to professional bass anglers well versed in the art of tempting big bass with spinnerbaits, the initials KVD are at the top of the list.
Burgess: Green pumpkin variations
Listening to Elite Series pro Mark Burgess describe his favorite shades of his go-to soft plastic color, green pumpkin, is like listening to him read off a restaurant menu.
Burgess: Smallmouth
Mark Burgess, who learned to fish on New England smallmouth factories like New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee, says not all smallmouth bass are created equal
