Night Fishing: Do it in the Dark
When the skiers and daytime traffic hits the lakes in the summer and the daytime temperatures soar near the century mark, prime time for night fishing has arrived. Just as wary old white tail bucks have learned to restrict their movements to the hours of darkness to avoid human contact, so have wary old bass! [...]
Read moreBarra de Navidad – Mexico’s Undiscovered Sport Fishing Paradise
The entire west coast of Mexico offers world class sport fishing opportunities. From Puerto Escondito to Mazatlan, the waters of Mexico promise a plethora of tackle testing sport fish ranging from huge blue marlin to football sized yellowfin tuna. In between those two, extremes are wahoo, sailfish, striped marlin, dorado and a host of lesser [...]
Read moreHeavenly Huites
Surrounded by towering mountains and rock cliffs up to 6,000-feet tall, Huites has to rank as one of the prettiest lakes on earth. The water clarity is good to 10 feet. Anglers are transported each morning by bus to the boat landing, where they are assigned their Mexican guide for the day. Although most of [...]
Read moreFishing Suspending Jerkbaits
Suspending jerkbaits work great on bass when they’re holding at suspended depths and are reluctant to chase fast-moving lures. Several companies are now manufacturing suspending baits, thus eliminating the time-consuming task of weighting the baits by hand. The idea of fishing a jerkbait such as the Rogue, Long-A, Thunderstick, etc. at suspended depths is nothing [...]
Read moreDefining Structure Fishing
In every fishing article that you pick up, in every fishing show that you see on TV, in most all interviews you hear at the weigh in you read or hear someone refer to the “structure” that they fished. Most every angler on the lake today calls himself a structure fisherman, but if you were [...]
Read moreUnderstanding the Fall Turnover
Aside from post-spawn doldrums when the fish scatter to parts unknown, there is no more difficult time to find and catch fish than in the Fall when our lakes go through a transition called “turnover”. Without a doubt, during turnover, fish are difficult to find, and even more difficult to catch, but there are things [...]
Read moreFishing Tournaments: Practice Tips You Can Bank On
When practicing for a tournament, I advise against catching too many fish out of an area, particularly on a reservoir that doesn’t boast a great bass population. On great bass lakes, you might check two or three fish to determine the size structure of the fish available before moving on to different water. Professional anglers [...]
Read moreIn Search of the Mythical Bull Reds of the Texas Coast
For twenty years I had heard of folks catching big bull redfish in the fall along the Texas coast. When I was just a teenager, someone came through a friend’s shop and told him of the bull reds that come through the cut at High Island just up the coast from Galveston. This cut, better [...]
Read moreBonefishing in Cuba: A Glimpse at Cuba’s Lost Paradise
Excitement is the name of the game when it comes to bonefish. Shakey hands, wobbly knees, and a pulse rate in the stratosphere are all signs of a successful bonefishing excursion, or so I had been told. The thrill of the stalk, a perfect cast, the flash of an aggressive bonefish and that first sizzling [...]
Read moreWorm Fishing in the West
Learning how to fish a plastic worm is lesson number one for any beginning fisherman. Out West that’s doubly true. No other lure will be more reliable than a plastic worm. Fishing conditions and fishing seasons will change, but the fact that Bass always bite plastic worms will not. Due to the unique conditions of [...]
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