Fishing Tips and Techniques

One of the tournament angler’s greatest challenges is learning when he or she should leave an area or stick with it and give it time to produce. Serious tournament anglers live by the clock. The name of the game is to accumulate the heaviest possible limit of bass within a specified amount of fishing time, [...]

If you’re competitive, and love fishing, then tournaments are a great deal of fun. And if you’re real serious about it, you can make money too. Think of it, making money while fishing – what a concept. People fish competitively for many types of fish. However, the most popular fish, in terms of numbers of [...]

In the early days of competitive fishing there were a certain few who excelled; a handful of pros who were always in the winner’s circle. Below these few, on the ladder of fishing excellence, was a mass of individuals who were soaking up every tidbit of information that drifted down through the ranks or that [...]

A good guide will always try to teach his customers as well as put them on fish. If you’re in the market for a guide, ask lots of questions and don’t be afraid to ask for references. As most of my colleagues will agree, you’ve got to learn the ropes in this business, just like [...]

Every couple of years it seems like there is at least one new technique or lure that sets the pace in professional bass fishing before eventually becoming a fad with novice and advanced anglers all over the country. The popularity of many of these tactics is sometimes short-lived. But there are others which continue to [...]

Each spring as I tour the country attending boat shows and doing in-store promotions I am constantly bombarded with questions about how one might go about getting a start amid the professional bass fishing circles. While most of the inquiries stem from curious minds, a few come from a serious interest in pursuing a career [...]

There is well-defined difference between “structure” and “cover.” Structure (the bridge crossing) could be defined as places on a lake with some feature that makes them unusual from the surrounding area. Rip-rap, creeks, rivers, humps, ridges and pond dams all are forms of structure. Cover (lily pads), meanwhile, provides the fish with a place to [...]

Boating season is here, which means owners will need to make sure their rigs are legal before launching. In Texas, operators must have a certificate of registration on board. The certificate states the make, year model, serial number and numbers assigned to the vessel. The passage of Memorial Day marked the official beginning of boating [...]

Not too many years back, only a few anglers were bass fishermen. Today, that number has reached staggering proportions and is steadily increasing. No doubt, the publicity and ‘glamor’ surrounding professional tournament fishing has been a major contributing factor to that build-up of pressure on the bass family. However, tournament anglers really constitute only a [...]