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How to fish channels and flats

Channels and flats are vastly different structures, yet they both attract and hold bass. Here, we’ll explain how bass use these structures throughout the year, and we’ll offer valuable lure...

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Rick Clunn: Waking blade bait

Roland Martin, Jimmy Houston and Kevin VanDam come to mind whenever a Bassmaster is asked to rate the best angler ever to throw a spinnerbait. However, when Rick Clunn is...

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Mastering the power-finesse technique

A fair number of bass anglers divide their approach to fishing into two different game plans — power fishing and finesse fishing. Power fishing, as the name implies, is associated...

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Gerald Swindle: Get a little buzzed up

Gerald Swindle gets strange looks from other anglers when they see him hurling a buzzbait around grassbeds with a spinning rod. “They think it’s funny — until they see me...

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Tommy Biffle: Spooks over dark spots

Tommy Biffle lives in Oklahoma, where the deer gun season always opens on Nov. 20. On that day the landscape is typically dotted with orange-clad, rifle-toting hunters with murder on...

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Jason Williamson: Fishing the jighead fluke

Many bass anglers are intimidated by the challenges of fishing in January. This is typically the harshest month of the year. Water is cold. Bass are deep. Their metabolism is...

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Dialing in craws and creatures

With crawfish being one of the most important food sources for all species of bass, it’s little wonder that soft-plastic lures mimicking these creeping crustaceans are among the most effective...

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Fish a big lipless crankbait in the spring

Fish earlier, deeper and go big. Magnum big. “Everyone knows that prespawn bass head to the shallow flats and the lipless crankbait is a great way to catch them,” says...

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When to throw big squarebills

Much has been written about square bill crankbaits, but there is a disparity when it comes to the sizes that most anglers tie on. The big sellers are square bills...

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Proven patterns: Prespawn

You’ve been waiting all winter, and it’s finally here — the prespawn. Big female largemouth are shallow, hungry and look as though they’ve swallowed softballs. Water temperatures are in the...