Bass Fishing Archives - Page 44 of 155

Power Pole’s Micro anchor is quiet, dependable and helps you secure your position in big-bass territory.

Power Pole Micro Anchor System

When you’re getting up close and personal on the water, there’s nothing better to have on your kayak than the Power-Pole Micro. This little anchor system offers big stopping power with a silent and secure hold. […]

Guide Brad Sasser runs into a lot of mixed schools of striped bass (left) and hybrid bass on April trips to Clarks Hill Lake.

Running together, Clarks Hill stripers, hybrids make for great spring action

Terry Madewell

Guide Brad Sasser said late March and April are excellent for catching both stripers and hybrids at Clarks Hill Lake, and that’s not necessarily a year-round pattern. […]

Anglers can target trophy sized fish at Clarks Hill by using larger baits.

Big baits means big Clarks Hill stripers

Terry Madewell

Guide Tony Shepherd said catching a trophy striper is a distinct possibility on any given day in the spring, but he’s developed a method to single out huge fish […]

Lunkerhunt Fetch swimbait

Tony Garitta

Bass pro Matt Arey tested six prototypes in an eight-month period to develop the Lunkerhunt Fetch, a swimbait introduced at the July 2017 ICAST show. […]

Largemouth bass and spotted bass may visit spreads of baits intended for stripers or hybrids in March.

Bonus bass make for a spring slam

Pat Robertson

The primary targets for Lake Hartwell’s early dawn, red-bank fishing are hybrids and stripers, but bonus spotted and largemouth bass can turn a great morning of fishing into a springtime slam. […]

Don’t wait for fish to bite when you set up this month at Lake Hartwell. Move if they aren’t biting. If they are, you might finish off your limit before daylight, but maybe not.

Patience is not a virtue

Pat Robertson

Fishing success often depends on being patient. You put your lines out, wait — and hope for a bite. But not when fishing the spring hybrid/striper feeding frenzy on Lake Hartwell. […]

Pull up on a red-clay point and fan-cast live baits for striped and hybrid bass this month on Lake Hartwell.

Red clay will make your day

Pat Robertson

Location. Location. Location. The key to success for this springtime striper-hybrid fishing bonanza is a red clay bank on a gently sloping point, Hamilton said. […]

Carolina rigs will catch as many fish in spring as they will in summer if used correctly.

Enter and exit, stage right

Jeff Burleson

Every bedding bass that makes it onto the shallow dance floor must first enter the staging area and eventually leave by the same route. […]

Some tremendous territory is available this month to bass fishermen in kayaks, like Lake Moultrie’s Hatchery area, which regularly produces trophy largemouth bass.

April bass fishing is tough to beat

Phillip Gentry

April is the top month for the bass spawn in both Carolinas, and there is nothing like setting the hook on a sho’nuff bucketmouth from a small plastic boat. The beauty of kayak bass fishing is that it’s hard to find a body of freshwater in either Carolinas that doesn’t hold bass. […]