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Fish shallow when everyone else is deep

It’s early summer on Kentucky Lake, the absolute textbook situation for going offshore and wielding a big crankbait, swimbait or 10-inch worm, and Chad Morgenthaler has his back to them...

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Match the hatch with gizzard shad

Threadfin shad get all the hype. But, if you asked Kevin VanDam, Jordan Lee and Randall Tharp, fol-lowing the movements of gizzard shad always leads to big fish. Based on...

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Catching fish in standing timber

It’s shade, it’s shelter, it’s ambush feeding — it just happens to be deeper than most folks can dive with a single breath of air. We’re talking about standing timber...

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Advanced frogging techniques

Any list of essential bass lures would be woefully incomplete if it didn’t include the hollow, snagless frog. You can effectively fish this potent topwater bait over the nastiest cover,...

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How to fish oversized topwaters

The Megadog from Megabass is not your typical topwater stickbait. At 8.6 inches in length and 4.6 ounces in weight, it dwarfs the walking baits commonly used by bass anglers...

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Understanding how to fish matted grass

Large expanses of matted grass present bass anglers with a quandary. You know that scads of quality largemouth probably live under the vast canopy. But there is so much of...

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Giant plastics on a Carolina rig

The Carolina rig is regaining the respect among Bassmaster pros that it once had when the technique first rose to popularity in the 1980s. The reason? A more open-minded approach...

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How to fish spoons on docks

Many anglers how hop flutter spoons over the same points and ledges they comb with deep crankbaits, football jigs, big Texas rigged worms and Carolina rigs. When the spoon bite...

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Froggin’ with Bobby Lane

Given that Bobby Lane grew up fishing shallow lakes in his home state of Florida, it makes sense that he prefers to fish skinny water. He has aptly demonstrated his...

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Elite Carolina Rig tactics

It’s OK; we can talk about this. You don’t want to do it, you hope you don’t have to do it, but sometimes, adults must do things we don’t want...