February 2017 Archives - Page 2 of 4

On his home waters, Lake James, angler Glen Grindstaff catches smallmouths as well as largemouths on a drop-shot rig.

How to rig a drop-shot for soft plastics or live bait

The drop-shot rig is best known for gently presenting soft-plastic lures, but with a few tweaks, the same setup can present live bait, especially minnows, to bass. […]

G3’s Sportsman 19 is a big boat that comes with a Yamaha outboard up to 150 horsepower.

G3 Sportsman 19

Jerry Dilsaver

The Sportsman 19 bass boat is a new offering from G3 Boats for 2017. It is a complete package that includes features fishermen want and exceeds the expectations of many. […]

Don’t waste your time blind-casting for wintertime bass. Take Glen Grindstaff’s advice and idlearound a lot, using your fish finder to locate schools of baitfish, and then fish around them.

Look for “spaghetti” on your fish finder when deep-jigging for winter bass

Pete Anderson

When bass pro Shane Lineberger idles over deep water during winter, he wants to see multiple schools of baitfish on his fish finder before he stops to make a cast. He knows the spot will be even better when he sees “spaghetti.” […]

Gator Trax Strike Series

Jerry Dilsaver

Gator Trax Boats have been the mainstay in mud boats for more than 15 years, and several years ago, it began offering boats powered by standard outboards. […]

Ranger’s RT198p carries a lot of features common on the company’s popular fiberglass boats.

Ranger RT198p

Jerry Dilsaver

Feature after fishing feature, inspired from their famous fiberglass lines, make the new Ranger RT198p a hard-core fisherman’s dream boat. It gets your attention with good looks and wins you over an excellent combination of features, storage, fishing space and attention to detail. […]

Lake Tillery’s deep brush piles might not be full of crappie in February, but there are plenty of bream there to make for some good fishing.

Bet on Lake Tillery bream in cold water

Dusty Wilson

In late fall, when crappie leave brush piles in search of deeper water, most anglers go with them and neglect brush until crappie return the next summer. While those anglers may be following their passion, they’re missing out on some of the best bream fishing of the year. […]

The 195 TXW is the latest in the line of great aluminum boats from Bass Pro Shops’ Tracker Marine line.

Tracker Pro Team 195TXW

Jerry Dilsaver

The Tracker Pro Team 195 TXW is the largest, most-powerful, all-welded, modified Vee aluminum boat Tracker Marine has ever built. And no space was wasted, either. It’s packed that start at the bow with a huge bow casting deck and continue to the box beam, all-aluminum transom. […]

The Xpress XBay Series provides an aluminum hull with the best bay-boat features.

Xpress XBay 21 and 23

Jerry Dilsaver

Fifty years ago, Xpress Boats changed the horizon of aluminum boat building by being the first to weld an aluminum boat. Later, it pioneered construction based on using longitudinal rib construction rather than cross ribs and injecting expandable foam to create a unibody platform that exceeded Coast Guard Standards and provided enhanced performance while dramatically reducing hull noise and increasing the overall safety of their boats. […]

Snow goose populations have skyrocketed over the past 25 years to the point that they were doing significant damage to agriculture and breeding habitat.

Light goose conservation order opens the floodgates for North Carolina hunters

Jeff Burleson

Nearly 10 years ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the “light goose conservation order” that resonated throughout every waterfowl community across the country. The USFWS pulled out all of the stops to encourage hunters to combat the exploding snow goose explosion. […]

Excel’s shallow-water center console models, paired with Mud Buddy outboards, will take fishermen and hunters into tough-to-reach places.

Excel F4 Center Console

Jerry Dilsaver

The F4 and F86 Center Console shallow-water boats harken back to the beginnings of the Excel Boat Co. With deep roots in duck hunting flooded Arkansas timber, Excel began with a need for tough durable boats and has grown to be a premier manufacturer of affordable models targeting the unique needs of outdoor recreational enthusiasts. […]