Fishing Tips and Techniques

A graphite fly rod starts out life as a flat, pliable sheet of graphite. This sheet is then cut into a pattern designed by the rod maker. Next, the cut pattern is wrapped around a steel mandrel and “baked” for a couple of hours. The graphite hardens, the mandrel is removed, and – voila! – a [...]

It’s really nice summer weather and the hot summer days mean that the bass are much more likely to feed enthusiastically at dawn. It’s calm. There’s a bit of mist over the shallow water, and the bass are out in force, feeding on small fry and insects of all sorts. Now’s the time to try [...]

You see them all day long, running at top speed, back and forth, up and down the lake. Then at weigh-in, you hear the same guys, moaning and groaning about the lack of fish and overall bad luck. Everywhere they went they couldn’t find fish. They had a good early bite but after they left [...]

You will hate them or love them depending on what you know about them. Currents and tides can definitely affect the areas bass are using and can be assets to you in finding and catching them. First you need to determine if you are dealing with man-made or natural current. Bass feed and become more [...]

In order to be a successful angler, you must first accept one simple fact. There are times when fishing is tough. Wind, weather, and any number of factors can effect our ability to locate and catch fish. They are, after all living, breathing creatures. And this reality is what keeps folks coming back. Don’t get [...]

The Rat-L-Trap is a deadly springtime bass lure, especially on reservoirs with an abundance of submerged hydrilla. Anglers should stick with four basic color patterns and adjust lure sizes in accordance with the depth of water between the surface and top of the submerged grass. I’d like to have dollar for every bass that’s been [...]

The Stamp River is one of British Columbia’s top producers of steelhead, and chinook salmon. Two things that make the Stamp unique – the early arrival of large numbers of steelhead and huge returns of chinook salmon. Unlike many other rivers, the Stamp has only two seasons of interest to avid anglers – fall/ winter [...]

There are a number of things bass fishermen can do to increase their odds of putting fish in the livewell. Unfortunately, the average angler doesn’t consider tackle care, organization and general maintenance important enough to include on their precious check lists. That’s hardly the case among the pro ranks. Most of the top professionals – [...]

Choosing the proper lure, the right color and making sound, accurate casts into bass infested waters are essential in catching largemouth and smallmouth bass alike. But unless you keep your boat in the proper position to place that lure in productive water, you might as well be dabbling a hook in a bar ditch somewhere. [...]