The road to the Bassmaster Classic is not easy via any of the available paths, but the Federation route may be the toughest, at least in terms of sheer numbers. An angler has to qualify from his state, then be the top angler from his state at the Divisional, and then be the top angler […]
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Tungsten weights are the same across the board, right? So why should you hunt down the ones from Reins, which may not yet be as easy to find as some of the “major” brands, and might even cost a few pennies more? The answers are simple and several, said South Carolina pro Michael Murphy. Once
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When Bill Lowen and the ima engineers developed the shallow-diving Square Bill crankbait to be the ultimate heavy cover grinder, they made it as snag-free as any lure with two sticky-sharp trebles can be. As a result of its unique design, it comes through rock, wood and vegetation as well as any other lure in
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As summer transitions into fall, bass anglers increasingly encounter schooling action from bass who are putting on the feedbag and putting a scare into the local baitfish populations. When the fish start busting the surface, most weekend warriors attack them with power techniques like topwaters, big swimbaits and lipless crankbaits. Those lures have their place,
ZAPPU Inchi-Wacky At an Elite Series event on Bull Shoals Reservoir in Arkansas earlier this year, Kurt Dove suspected he’d have to rely on finesse tactics. His hunch proved correct as many anglers in the top ten fished small tubes or shakey head worms. “It was super clear water,” he recalled. “And fishing really light
Tackling the Baitfish Spawn with the Skimmer With August water temperatures in the low 80s, Kurt Dove assumed that the shad spawn on Lake Amistad was long over, but recently he came across a situation where small baitfish were utilizing the ledges in the lake’s rocky bluffs to spawn. Not surprisingly, the largemouths were right
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ZAPPU-Twin Blade The swim jig revolution isn’t just limited to small pockets of the country anymore. While it used to have devotees primarily in far-flung locations like Wisconsin and Alabama, today most serious anglers who want to catch shallow-water bass around any type of cover have integrated a horizontally-presented leadhead into their arsenal. So, with
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If you save your lipless crankbaiting exclusively for the pre-spawn bass of the spring, you’re missing out on some of the year’s best bites, said Elite Series pro Kurt Dove. He dotes on an Ima Rock N’ Vibe throughout the late summer and well into the fall. “It’s great in fall because the fish are
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As bass start to leave their deep water summertime haunts on lakes around the country, their trek to shallower fall feeding spots is a gradual one. They want to keep their secure access to deep water, but they’re pulled in the opposite direction by their conflicting biological imperative to fatten up. For Kurt Dove, an
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When Ima first released the Flit 120 Floating, many anglers assumed that it was not muchdifferent than its predecessors, a tool aimed largely at cold-weather conditions and the pre-spawn. Those who learned to use its buoyancy to their advantage, however, have come to realize that it’s an effective tool any time the fish are shallow
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