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Submitted By: By USA Guest Columnist and Pro Angler Gary Klein You’ve made it through the winter—although there were times when you doubted you would, what with all the cold…
Submitted By: By USA Guest Columnist and Pro Angler Gary Klein You’ve made it through the winter—although there were times when you doubted you would, what with all the cold…
Submitted By: By USA Guest Columnist and Pro Angler Mark Courts It doesn’t matter if you are working on the honey-do list or giving speeches, working smarter and not harder…
Submitted By: By USA Guest Columnist and Pro Angler Kevin Wirth Depending on where you are in the U.S., April can be good, tough or frustrating for a bass angler.…
Larry Nixon Before we can delve too far into the finer points of fishing the prespawn, we need to quickly define the term. To me, it’s one of the most…
Jay Yelas Among anglers, there is perhaps no more controversial topic than whether or not, as conservationists, we ought to fish for bass while they are spawning. Battle lines on…
Capt. Bert Deener Few presentations trigger bass strikes more effectively in shallow water than quickly retrieving a rod-thumping, wide-wobbling, shallow-diving crankbait. The lure looks so inviting that few fish can…
Capt. Bert Deener Fish 1—15 pounds. Fish 2—13 pounds. Fish 3 and 4—11 pounds. These are not the biggest bass of an angler’s lifetime, and not even the biggest fish…
Larry Nixon Traditionally, May is a month that can go a lot of ways. Most of the fish are still shallow and are either post spawn or still spawning. Some…
Tracy Breen Joe Balog from Michigan has won several bass tournaments. Balog sleeps and breathes smallmouth bass fishing, and when he needs to put a few bass in the boat…
M. D. Johnson I’m not bragging, but I’ve eaten a lot of fresh fish—Columbia River sturgeon, Alaskan silver salmon, Lake Erie walleyes, and cold-water channel cats. But without question, nothing…
Capt. Bert Deener From the time I first entered the property, I knew it was in a special place. The classy entrance sign and fishy-looking lakes I passed heading for…
Tracy Breen You’ve probably seen the pictures, the ones with a professional angler holding a walleye large enough to swallow a poodle. You look at the page and think there…
Tracy Breen Ice fishing is one of those sports people either really enjoyed or disliked and growing up, I was in the “dislike” category and so were most of my…
Beau Beasley “Told you it would be worth the hike just for the view,” said our guide, Justin Bleicher, as we finally broke through the forest and made it to…
Chris Ellis When the sun finally decides to warm the winter landscape and the ice cycles begin to drip, it is time. It is time to grab a fly rod…
Chris Ellis Bass fishermen have known the secret for years—some of the biggest fish will be taken in the cold months of winter. When I was guiding for smallmouth bass…
Tracy Breen A couple of years ago, I ice fished with a few friends of mine on Saginaw Bay in Michigan. Saginaw Bay is extremely large and the fishing can…
Capt. Bert Deener What they lack in fight, they definitely make up in edibility. If you get on a good bite, it does not take long to catch your limit.…
Tracy Breen Every once in a while, you find a bowhunter who is as accurate with a bow as Billy the Kid was with a revolver. When they let the…
David Hart Trout fishing is a three-season affair for most fly fishermen. By mid-October, trout streams everywhere are void of anglers, save for a few die-hard souls who know that…
David Hart Cold weather means one thing to many anglers—stripers. In lakes throughout the South, East and Midwest, striped bass are actively roaming open water in search of baitfish like…
M. D. Johnson Why, you ask, would anyone want to leave the warmth and comfort of their home and navigate treacherous roads, only to sit on a five-gallon bucket on…