Bass

It is time to start throwing a suspending jerkbait; the water is cold and the fish are sluggish.

White bass, unlike their striped, large- and smallmouth cousins, don’t just hit anything they can fit into their mouths. When the fight is over and the fish is caught, every bit of effort put into catching them is usually worth it.

We all are guilty of overlookin

Enthusiasm.

When I was a first became interested in bass fishing as a kid, I had the same question and no one to ask.

When I was asked to write an article on old baits that you hardly hear anything about anymore, quite a few came to mind.

I just returned from a brief but rewarding trip to a lake to fish for smallmouth bass. I was invited by a friend from Louisiana to his rustic cabin on an island. Each day, he would gather neighbors from surrounding islands, and I would demonstrate the tackle I would use and what casts I would employ.