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Major League Fishing caught up with Fred Roumbanis to get his five reasons why he uses the Boom Boom swimbait.

Many anglers associate frog fishing with hot summer days and thick matted vegetation, and that is fair. That is one of the best times to use them, but they work in many other situations including the pre-spawn all the way until summer sets in. Osaka, Japan’s Kenta Kimura is following a long line of bass

The Optimum Boom Boom line of swimbaits was designed by professional angler and big bait addict Fred Roumbanis. There are now three different versions of this bait; a rigged version with a treble hook, a weedless version that comes in two sizes, and the newest, a line-thru that comes in three different sizes. The new

As swimbait fishing continues to get more and more popular, fish can sometimes get conditioned to seeing them glide and swim past them. They still work and will continue to land large bass this year and for years to come, but when faced with swimbait shy bass, a large jerkbait may trick a few extra

If there’s a hot, hard bodied lure type out there today, it’s the glide bait. For the longest time, two sectioned baits were an under the radar bait – especially the big ones. Now, every lure manufacturer out there is either scrambling to bring one to market, or they have several from which to choose.

Most soft plastic baits built for targeting black bass are patterned after creatures we assume they feed on naturally – everything from earthworms to crawdads to grubs, lizards and so on. Of course manufacturers have taken some of the profiles of their bait products to extremes, but for the most part when we’re fishing with soft plastics,

Bill Lowen shares his approach for fishing a frog late in the year. Read entire article on westernbass.com.

A look at using the ima Glide Fluke on both coasts. Read the entire article in the WesternBass.com magazine. Click here to view.

Sometimes when you’re fishing, all you want is a bite, any kind of bite, just to get some action. Other times, you’re in search of quality. In those instances, the hunt is on for that one big bite and out here in California that means it’s swimbait time. Optimum Bait Company, with the help of their