Guiding You In Your Quest For More And Bigger Fish
Kevin VanDam and I have something in common—we are both bass fishing crankbait monsters!
Ok, ok, maybe I’m not quite the crankbait fisherman KVD is, but it is still one of my favorite ways to go after bass. Recently, I picked up a few Spro Fat John shallow running crankbaits to test out and review. [Read more…]
It may seem like we’ve gone a little frog crazy over here lately, but that’s just because it’s a great time of year to catch some serious bass on frogs. Lily pads, bulrushes, submerged trees and large weed and grass beds are all fantastic places to find big bass during the late spring. [Read more…]
Well gang, here it is mid May and one of the lure categories I look forward to using most is the venerable hollow body frog. There are a few new offerings in this category for 2011 and we’re going to take a look at one of them tonight. The Koppers Live Target Hollow Body Frog. [Read more…]
Spinnerbaits have so many applications in bass fishing. One of my favorite is to use a spinnerbait to help me locate where the fish are in the water column.
That is exactly what I intended recently when I took the Strike King Tour Grade Spinnerbait out to Lake Lanier for some testing. [Read more…]
It’s almost summer around here although we are experiencing another cold front and some unseasonably high rain totals, I had to look at another lure category that is just plain fun to fish, the buzz-bait.
I picked up some Cavitron buzzers and have now had them for over a year and have caught fish on them. So let’s get down to business and take a closer look at them. [Read more…]
In honor of our new rating system, tonight I am going to take a look at a fishing line that came highly recommended to me which I decided to give a try. I picked up Izorline XXX Super Co-Polymer in two different pound classes. The first was 4 pound which I spooled on a couple of my Pflueger Presidents for this past trout season. The second was 8 pound that landed on a couple of bait-casters which I use all year long, even in the depth of winter, for bass fishing. [Read more…]
Yet again, changing tactics pays off. This time, it was all about drop shot fishing.
When I went fishing the other night there were still some fish on the beds. I was watching with one eye as some folks were trying to get those fish to bite with no success. The reason could be that those fish had seen just about every lure known to man dropped onto their nests. [Read more…]
Today we’re going to talk about one of the work horse baits in my spring arsenal, the Strike King Perfect Plastics Rodent. This is a creature bait that like all creature baits, resembles a crawfish to some extent. [Read more…]
We discussed spring cleaning for the fisherman and I gotta’ tell you, I did mine and found some things in the terminal tackle box that desperately needed to be replaced, starting with swimbait hooks. [Read more…]
If you do a lot of night fishin’ like we do around here, you’re gonna’ have to have a flashlight that you can depend on. Our choice here at MVF is the Mini-Mag from Maglite. This little flashlight runs on 2 AA batteries that have lasted me an entire year now and utilizes a single LED bulb that, for all intents and purposes, never needs replacing. Not bad for around $25. [Read more…]