Crappie fishing and the rites of spring go hand in hand. When crappie fishing peaks, the dogwoods are in bloom and forsythia are bright gold. Wildflowers punctuate the gray forests and the songbirds...View article
Understanding how bass behavior changes through the Calendar Periods and classifying bass waters are good starts in learning to locate bass and establish fishing patterns, but no angler can progress...View article
Ask a seasoned angler to define good bass habitat and you’re likely to hear about laydowns, weededges, creek channels, stumpfields, mats, red clay banks, chunk rock, shell bars—the list goes on....View article
Since its construction over 70 years ago, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, has been an epicenter of bass fishing. For more than 50 years, it has been home to one of the premier fishing families of North...View article
As more homes are built on bass waters, docks, boat houses, and piers become important cover. Shoreline development usually means loss of natural cover like fallen trees, stumps, lily pad beds, and...View article
Crappies like cover, most of the time. Sure, I’ve found them bunched in open water, sitting 40 feet down with another 60 below their bellies. And sometimes scattered across clean sandflats. But mostly...View article
Docks, boathouses, and piers become more important cover for largemouth bass as homes are built on lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. Shoreline development often means loss of natural cover like fallen...View article
A hot bite, going gangbusters a few minutes ago, is now seemingly dead. Crappies were hitting minnows on Aberdeen hooks before the float could even settle and stand up. One on every cast. Happens every...View article
Biologists call bass opportunistic predators, meaning they may at times eat almost any sort of living thing small enough to cram into their capacious maws. Smallmouths eat peamouth in the Columbia River,...View article
