Bass Fishing: Learning on Your Own One of the things that has helped me the most in tournament fishing is to not depend on help from anyone. I try to make up my own game plan and not depend on help from any other people. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, How-To
Ott DeFoe Says to Trust Your Gut If you fish long enough, you’ll have some of those “ah ha” moments that are hard to explain, but that can lead you to success. Read More Fishing
Greg Hackney's Favorite Spring and Early Summer Bait My favorite spring and summer bait is a Strike King Red Eyed Shad, a lipless crankbait. When the bass are aggressive in either the pre- or post-spawn, they’re feeding heavily. You can cover a lot of water with a lipless crankbait. Read More Fishing, Gear, How-To
Choose Different Crankbaits for Different Depths I pick the crankbaits I’m going to use by depth zones. I know the bass that are down that deep probably haven’t seen as many deep-diving crankbaits as they have other lures. Read More Fishing, Gear
How to Overcome a Frustrating Day of Bass Fishing On the first day of the 2019 Bassmaster Classic, I thought I knew where and how I could catch enough bass to perform well in the tournament. But in the first places I stopped, I didn’t catch a bass, so my day started off wrong. Read More Fishing
Fishing Shallow Water In the 2019 Bassmaster Classic, I was catching quite a few bass in shallow water. But I was hooking them on the outside of their chins, making them extremely hard to land. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua
My Three Favorite River Baits with Brandon Palaniuk To fish on a river, I want a lure that will be appropriate for the type of cover that I expect to find. This crankbait fits that niche. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, Gear
Three Lures for Beginner Bass Fishing All anglers have to be concerned with the future generation of bass fishermen. I believe when a youngster begins bass fishing, he or she needs to catch a lot of bass, especially in the beginning. Read More Fishing
Water Color Can Be the Most Critical Key to Catching Bass I couldn’t see the bass I was trying to catch down in the water, so by using a fast-moving racket bait like the bladed jig, even if the bass couldn’t see the lure but could only hear it, they could react to it and bite it. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua
Electrofishing: A Biologist’s Look into Your Lake In this article, Mossy Oak discusses electrofishing, a method for sampling fish populations using an electric current. Read on to learn more. Read More Fishing, Conservation, Land Management, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers
Gear for Bass Fishing in the Rain If you’re an enthusiastic bass fisherman who fishes 2-4 times per month, there will be a day when you get caught in the rain. As a tournament angler, I not only have to fish in the rain, I often have to fish in a downpour. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua, Gear
Three Best Lures for River Bass Fishing As a professional bass fisherman, I fish a number of lakes, but I also have to fish a bunch of rivers. You can’t ever go wrong fishing a spinner bait on a river, since you can cover an abundance of water with it, find the bass and catch them. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua
Photo Essay From The Last Frontier: Brown Bear Hunting In Southeast Alaska Where better to witness and capture the raw, unfiltered realities of the food chain than the Last Frontier? Alaska is one of few remaining places in the modern world where bold humans can venture to pursue wild protein alongside other apex predators…namely the brown bear. Read More Big Game, Fishing, Predator
Professional Bass Fishing is a Weird Sport Bass fishing is a weird sport. You’re fishing against 100 or more of the nation’s top bass anglers in most tournaments you enter. You must realize that you’ll lose more times than you’ll win. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua
Early Spring White Bass and Striped Bass All the excitement that I have encountered among my friends over the years has been due to the catching of white bass and striped bass, otherwise known as a striper. During this time of the year, both types of bass venture to the shallower parts of the lake. Read More Fishing, Mossy Oak Elements Agua