When bass respond to factors such as weather or fishing pressure by playing hard to get, anglers can often tempt those tough bites with a dropshot. The basic rig is pretty simple, and the action, well, there’s not much to it. […]
As long as the fish remain on the ledge, it’s a safe bet that they’re still in the food mood — so it’s just a matter of keeping an easy meal there for them. […]
Ponds has a few basic colors of frogs he’ll throw, but he feels like the color is a preference more important to the angler when fishing pads or thick vegetation because bass usually strike at movement. […]
Basic equipment:
Rod: 7-foot, 10-inch heavy Boyd Duckett Rod in thick cover with braid or 7-foot, 3-inch medium heavy rod when fishing open water. […]
When you mention frog fishing, the traditional hollow frog with skirt material for legs is the image most commonly conjured. This tried-and-true bait certainly merits its go-to status, but a little variety goes a long way when you’re trying to entice tough fish to bite or if you’re simply trying to extend a fading rally. […]
Lake Ferguson, an oxbow off the Mississippi River near Greenville, will have high water up in the willows on the north side of the lake if our area continues to have spring rains like we’ve been experiencing.
But if the Mississippi River doesn’t rise, you still can catch bass at Lake Ferguson if you’ll fish the other side of the lake and use different tactics. […]
When bass respond to factors such as weather or fishing pressure by playing hard to get, anglers can often tempt those tough bites with a dropshot. The basic rig is pretty simple, and the action, well, there’s not much to it. […]
Pete Ponds spotted a flash and swirl that sent a school of small fry skittering across the top of the water. The Bassmaster Elite Series pro instantly sailed a Scumdog Walker Frog past the small fry and started working the lure back in a walk the dog pattern.
Just as it passed over the small fry, a bass crushed the lure and headed down toward deep water. Ponds dropped his rod tip, reeled in the slack and snapped the rod back, driving the Owner hooks deep into the jaws of the lunker bass and turning it toward the boat. […]
Double nickels, 55 — that’s the water temperature mark that Jackson angler Alfred Williams eagerly awaits each spring. That, he said, is the threshold for his favorite largemouth bass tactic — frogging.
An old-school bass buster with plenty of big fish to his credit, Williams knows that a hollow-belly frog like his favored Snagproof Tournament Frog can entice some of the most aggressive surface strikes imaginable. […]
Jeff Collum located the submerged roadbed on Kemper Lake with the help of his Rapala DT16, a good LCR and a little firsthand knowledge of the lake bottom. […]
Designed to imitate a range of forage, tubes are among the most versatile and productive baits in a bass angler’s arsenal. […]
On March 28, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) stocked approximately 200,000 Florida-strain largemouth bass fingerlings into Columbus and Aberdeen Lakes on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The fish were reared at MDWFP’s Turcotte Fish Hatchery near Canton.
According to Tyler Stubbs, MDWFP Fisheries Biologist, the goal of the Florida-strain bass stockings is to help increase the number of trophy-sized (> 5 pounds) bass in these two lakes. […]
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