Smallmouth Bass Fishing

“Reel” Winners for 2011

By: Bill Schultz I was out in my kayak for a few hours yesterday, and along with catching a bunch of smallmouth and largemouth bass, I was thinking how fast the summer is going. Even though I’m looking forward to some great fall fishing, we all know what comes after that in Wisconsin. [...]

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Swimming Grubs for Great Lakes or “Any” Lake Smallies

By: Bill Schultz During the past 14 plus years, I’ve had the good fortune and pleasure of spending 150 days chasing smallies in Door County.  This is the “thumb” on the map of Wisconsin that juts out into Lake Michigan.  My efforts have been rewarded with having caught and released over 4,000 smallies. Like many of you [...]

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PA Fish & Boat Commission Places Catch and Release Regulations On Susquehanna & Juniata Rivers

Thanks to years of letter writing, discussion and prodding from local avid Susquehanna smallmouth bass anglers about recent low prior year recruitment of young bass, the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission is Placing catch and release regulations on sections of Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers. The cause is still under investigation by state and federal agency biologists. [...]

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Three “must have” baits for fall river smallmouth bass

by Juan Veruete Kayak Fish PA, LLC Fall is time when smallmouth are feeding veraciously preparing for the long lean winter. It’s also a time of rapidly changing weather that effects smallmouth location and feeding behavior. This means anglers will need to be ready to fish a lot of different types of water and depths. Here’s [...]

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Six Great Reels for 2010

Again, spring, and now summer, have gone “way” too fast. Fortunately, as of August 1st, I’ve been on the water fishing all or part of over 30+ days and had my best year ever on Green Bay of Lake Michigan chasing those big smallies in clear water. The past few months I’ve fished [...]

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Five tips for fishing river grass

by Juan Veruete, KayakFishPA.com This time of year I get a lot of questions from fisherman about approaches to fishing river grass. Folks tend to get very frustrated after a day of pulling up salad! Honestly fishing in the river grass is one of my favorite summer time target areas. Tip#1 Understand the grass you are fishing [...]

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Selecting the right color tube bait for river smallmouth

by Juan Veruete, KayakFishPA.com When it comes to lures, the number one topic of discussion is almost always centered around color selection. How many times has another angler asked you, “What color are you using?”. This question often becomes more complicated when you are talking about river fishing for smallmouth bass. The river environment is very dynamic [...]

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Essential gear and wading for creek smallmouth bass

by Juan Veruete, Kayak Fish PA, LLC Oh yes, the good old days of grabbing a spinning rod, a pack of sinkers, and hooks to hit the cool clear waters of your local smallie creek. If you want to get back to your roots and simplify your life…at least “temporally” here’s a [...]

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Favorite summer lures for smallmouth bass

by Juan Veruete, centralpafishing.com Summer smallmouth fishing has arrived or is just around the corner for much of the country. Yes, it is time to think about patterning those smallmouth bass during the hot long days of summer. We also need to think of the baits we’ll be tossing at those aggressive summer smallmouth bass. I [...]

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Six Great Rods Under $100

2010 is the year of the “under $100″  rods.  Rod manufacturers knew they needed to provide as much value as possible in a rod and they decided to step up to the plate and make some great performing rods for relatively low cost. Almost every rod manufacturer now offers a “performance” rod under or close [...]

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