
Bass Lures for Spring: Prespawn, Spawn, and Postspawn
Spring is not one season. It is three — prespawn, spawn, and postspawn — and the calendar will lie to you abou…

Spring is not one season. It is three — prespawn, spawn, and postspawn — and the calendar will lie to you abou…

Winter does not ask for better lures. It asks for slower ones. Once water temperatures fall below roughly 50 d…

Smallmouth bass eat a short list of lure families almost everywhere they swim: tubes, Ned rigs and finesse pla…

Bass lures for summer come down to three jobs: topwater baits for the low-light feeding windows at dawn and du…

If we could throw one crankbait for bass anywhere in the country, it would be the Strike King KVD 1.5 squarebi…

Line up the best soft plastic bass lures and one bait still tops the list: the 5-inch Yamamoto Senko, the salt…

The thickest cover on the lake is where the biggest bass live — and where most anglers refuse to cast. Weedles…

Fall bass fishing comes down to one word: shad. As the water cools, baitfish pour into creek arms and bass gor…
Filter 14 spots by water type, species and access — depth ranges, launch info and seasonal windows on every card. Split map and list, no nested menus.
Re-spooling with a different line? Convert your reel’s rated capacity to the yardage you’ll actually get on mono, fluoro or braid.
Open toolWeigh a fish without a scale. Enter length — add girth for accuracy — and get a weight from the formulas state biologists use, by species.
Open toolSet your drag the right way: a target strike drag in pounds from your line’s rated strength, tuned for mono, fluoro or no-stretch braid.
Open toolMatch tippet to your fly with the “rule of 3”, then read off the diameter, breaking strength and balanced hook range for every X size.
Open toolTurn a reel’s gear ratio and spool diameter into inches-per-turn, so you can match retrieve speed to the technique.