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Chris Johnston’s tips for finding summertime smallmouth
Check out some tips from Elite Series pro Chris Johnston on how to catch deep smallmouth in the summer months.
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Tips for fishing a spybait
New Japanese techniques continue to spread to the U.S. with some regularity. Things have calmed quite a bit from the seminal years of the 1990s, when revolutions like drop shotting,...
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How to maximize your time on the water
One of the most challenging aspects of bass tournament fishing is that you must be intensely focused throughout a long competition day. Many other sports, such as football, baseball and...
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Fishing a swimming worm
Plenty of baits excel in one type of cover or another, but very few excel in multiple types of cover, depth and water clarity quite like a swim worm. A...
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Catching bass in calm conditions
Calm weather and a slick water surface are perfect for pleasure boating, water skiing and lounging on an inflatable mattress, but those conditions usually are less favorable for catching bass....
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Top spy bait mistakes anglers make
Spybaiting may not be a tool in everyone’s tacklebox, but it’s one you need to keep up your sleeve for those special situations when the bite is off. Let’s face...
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Buddy Gross’s top chatterbait tip
Magic. that is what Bassmaster Elite Series pro Buddy Gross calls his offshore ChatterBait technique. What Gross once was skeptical about became a go-to technique several years ago for the...
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Dropshotting tips with Brandon Palaniuk
Many Bassmaster Elite Series pros excel with drop shot rigs, particularly when they target smallmouth bass. But it’s unlikely that any Elite angler employs a drop shot more often and...
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Pro’s forward facing sonar tips
On a warm, late-spring day on the marsh lakes at Grosse Savanne Lodge in south Louisiana, Justin Hamner began the day by smashing the bass on a frog, catching impressive...
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Score big with small crankbaits
Pro angler David Walker is from Tennessee. That means at least two things. One: He can fish. Two: He can crank. If there’s any one state in the United States...
