Summer Patterns are Starting to Change by Mark Menendez
Weather patterns will begin to change soon and so will the fishing patterns. Anglers have been using two attacks to catch summertime bass. Offshore anglers have had great success using football jigs and deep diving crankbaits on structure. While the shallow water experts have been fishing up the creeks and rivers looking [read more]
Try A River This Summer
If you go fishing, you want to catch something. Sure it's fun to be outside enjoying the ducks and spending time with your family and friends and being close to water, but when you go fishing, you really want to catch something. In the summer months, rivers can provide consistent fishing action.
Almost wherever you live, there [read more]
Punching Through Mats of Vegetation
Punching heavy mats of vegetation for bass is a technique that isn't completely new as anglers have relied on this technique to present their soft plastic lure in the heavily vegetated waters of Florida. The popularity of mat punching has taken hold of anglers from California to Texas and now here in the upper Midwest. This [read more]
Bobby Lane On Flippin for Big Bass
Professional angler Bobby Lane shares his tactics for catching big spring bass by flipping, rather than swimbaits. Even though the 11-pound bass Bobby Lane caught during a recent Bassmaster® Elite tournament in California hit a swimbait, the Yamaha Pro readily admits his favorite spring fishing technique is flipping shallow, weedy cover, and he adds, [read more]
Punching Through Mats of Vegetation
Punching heavy mats of vegetation for bass is a technique that isn't completely new as anglers have relied on this technique to present their soft plastic lure in the heavily vegetated waters of Florida. The popularity of mat punching has taken hold of anglers from California to Texas and now here in the upper Midwest. This [read more]
Your Guide to Common Fishing Terms
FRANKFORT, Ky. – The staff here at Kentucky Afield Outdoors sometimes receive questions from newspaper editors and readers about common fishing terms used in a column or in a photo caption.
We’ve been asked, “What is a point?” in regards to a column about fall reservoir fishing. We’ve also been asked, “What is a flat?” [read more]
Top Water Fishing
It’s right at daybreak. You’ve killed the motor about 200 feet away from the lily pads. Now you are on stealth approach with the trolling motor, and the first cast lands in the pocket between four pads. You let the frog settle a minute, twitch it twice, and SLAM!, the tuning fork goes off in your loins as [read more]
Warm Water River Smallies
The brown arch flew through the air for what seemed like an eternity. My jerkbait's rattles hissed like a coiled rattler with each headshake. Pure bronze fury landed several feet away soaking me in a river water shower. The summer sun beamed through the clouds to dry the spray from my face. I reached into the [read more]
Take Time to Study and Dissect Docks Properly
By Larry Nixon
When fishing a tournament or just for fun at any of the great fisheries we have across the nation, there's undoubtedly more than one way to catch some fish. With that many fish and that many surface acres of water, it's not uncommon to see two different people have great fishing [read more]
The History of B.A.S.S.
1967
In March, Ray Scott has the idea for the first modern bass tournament while watching a basketball game in a Jackson, Miss., motel room. He subsequently drafts the rules for competitive bass fishing to foster the ideals of ethical angling, conservation and safety. The same basic rules are used today all around the world.
In June, Scott [read more]
