Jerkbaits are a great go-to lure for fall fishing. Just remember, largemouth are often sluggish in cold water, so be conservative with your retrieves.
Anglers can have a lot of fun throwing…
Normally a mobile approach to fishing river smallmouth is preferred, but there are certain conditions that call for dropping the anchor and focusing on areas where fish are concentrated.
It’s one of…
Like many of you, I use artificial fishing baits and lures 95 percent of the time when targeting bass. But if there’s a period when it makes sense to dip into the minnow bucket, it’s during autumn…
Fishing the late fall shift on northern lakes has its advantages. Largemouth bass can be relatively easy to locate and, for the most part, will be the largest you will find them all season long.…
While pink isn’t a common underwater color, these fising lures and baits can trigger aggressive bites.
From season opener to autumn, I sight fish for bass whenever conditions allow. Although many…
Casting, jigging, and dragging a football jig teamed with a bulky plastic are reliable ways to catch smallmouth bass. Try wetting one this fall, and you’ll quickly get hooked on the fish-catching…
My guide client Dave and I were drifting along a river section that split around a small, gravel-covered island. We were concentrating on the main bank, where a deeper trough hugged the shoreline. …
Be sure to fish points near bays for largemouth this autumn. These areas draw in bass that are leaving shallow bays and can hold lots of quality fish in a small area.
It’s autumn. Many types of…
On many bodies of water during the winter, fall, and summer month’s bass and baitfish migrate to deep offshore structure in search of cooler or warmer waters. A few simple adjustments to your fishing…
For an effective go to bait throught summer and early fall, try Senko plastic worms.
It’s pretty easy to think of certain baits such as the Senko (and similar cigar-shaped sinking worms such as the…
For many anglers having a slow day out on the water, the only thing that can turn it around is a good plastic worm rig. A number of fishing rigs exist, and each one serves its own purpose for fishing…
The first frost of the year hit this morning, marking the end of the shallow water largemouth bass bite. Water temperatures have plummeted the last week, going from a balmy 77 degrees F to a chilly…
