Bass

By Dave Landahl

Summer is here, and it's the best season out there for bass busters to try a variety of techniques. Sure, it gets really hot and miserable in some spots, but the bass are always biting if you know what to throw.

Two top fishing pros, from the FLW Tour Scott Martin and Elite Series pro Ish Monroe, share their two favorite offerings for hot-weather bass.

by Dave Landahl

New stuff is cool. New stuff is fun. So, keep reading, because Pros4- 1Source is launching a new series of articles. Is it hard-hitting and super-dee-duper tough investigative journalism at its finest? Relative to what passes for journalism today, you're darn tootin' it is!

Marcel Veenstra, professional fishing guide and tournament pro, guides on Lake St. Claire and the inland lakes in Michigan up to 150 days a year when weather permits. As spring arrives, he’ll focus on breaking in his new boat and fishing blade baits for largemouth on his favorite lakes.

by Dave Landahl

Asking a veteran pro angler what their favorite things about being a professional basser can often result in a mixed bag of answers. Really, all over the place, no two anglers give the same ones.

by Dave Landahl

by Dave Landahl

Are you a total bass expert or are you swimming with the small fry? Are you still learning? Should you find a willing tutor to help you with some "hands on " bass fishing research? Or, when the biggest bass are on the spawning beds, will you be fishing those hawgs?

Test your bass spawning IQ with this graduate-level quiz and you may be surprised.!
 

by Dave Landahl

Alton Jones has been hooking bass for money over the last few decades. Jones is a multi-tournament winner including the Bassmaster Classic and the Bassmaster Angler of the Year (AOY). He's got the type of fishing resume that places him among the all-time elite pros.  

by Dave Landahl

Okay, now that Pros4- 1Source has the For the love of the game series rolling, one thing is starting to become evident with almost every angler interviewed. That thing is love or a passion for fishing. Not just tournament competition, but fishing in general. So far in this series, every angler has said if they weren't fishing for a living, they'd still be out fishing multiple days per week.

The passion may be driven by different things for the individual, but the passion for fishing is there regardless of the catalyst.

The appeal of early spring bass fishing is quite simple: huge fish. At no other time of year is such a large percentage of the adult bass population concentrated near shore where most anglers of average skills are best at catching them.