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Z-MAN Pop Shadz Lures Review: This bait has a tendency to want to walk around on the hook. The trick to rigging this bait is to use a toothpick through the eye of the hook to hold it in place. This eliminates the bait moving around and causing headaches and anger. Z-MAN Pop Shadz Lures is the latest in weedless topwaters. Once the issue of the bait sliding down is resolved it will produce some nice fish for you.

Top 10 Bass Fishing Lures 2015: When looking for the next lure to tie on consider something off this list to increase the odds in your favor. Compiled below is a list of the top selling baits of 2015 and continue to stay on top of the leaderboard of personal best big fish by anglers around the globe. Top 10 Bass Fishing Lures of 2015 Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Lucky Craft Pointer 100 Great for early season spring and ice out.

Quickly and Safely Peg A Weight: I have been using these rubber bobber stoppers for a while now, and I’m finding that not a lot of people have used these great little tools. The bobber stoppers attach to the line very easily. There is a loop on the stopper with the rubber piece above it, slide your line thru the hole, the pull the plastic circular disk away from you while holding both the stopper and the rubber stopper.

The Alabama Rig This has been the rage for the last few months and has won a lion’s share of the biggest tournaments on the FLW trail. AKA: Umbrella Rig All sorts of shapes and sizes of this combination are coming into play. Saltwater guys will recognize this as a traditional umbrella rig that has been downsized for the black bass species. Multiple baits create a small school of prey that appear to be wounded or 1 big easy meal!

Sonar Units Truly are Becoming Fish Finders! I thought a Lowrance sonar video set would be appropriate for the blog this week. Headed to Stockton Lake, Mo for this years championship. This is a 2 day event on a lake I have never been to before but know it’s been off limits for the past 30 days so no one else should have been either. A lake this size and only 20 boats that made the championship, and the bumper boat session of last months small pond fiasco isn’t gonna happen!

Alaska: Number 1 in Bass Fishing Searches: Google Search Trends showed a big surge in bass fishing related search terms back in 2004 for Alaska. The graph spikes at 100. Instinct tells me this was more for a search for Rock Bass or Striped Bass versus largemouth or smallmouth bass. Either way interesting information for you to enjoy. Alaska: Number 1 in Bass Fishing Searches Catching giant striped bass or giant trout on a fly line would be a blast if you ask me.

Buddy Tournament Fishing is it for You? The past few years I’ve been fishing buddy tournaments. I went into fishing these buddy tournaments with apprehension. Would they be good ‘ole boys with a case of Bud in one hand and Zebco in the other or would they be guys as competitive as me? Let me tell you, I was happy to find out these guys are ultra-competitive. They’ll put a whoopin’ on you in a heartbeat and not think twice about it.

Top 10 Bass Fishing Mistakes: I thought I would take a minute and talk about some of the mistakes that novice fisherman make. We all start out on the same level for the most part, Jonathan Van Dam, might be an exception to that rule, but for the most part we all suck. So to make that sucking go away a little faster I’ve put together a Top 10 list of what I’ve learned the hard way.

I am always learning how to fish. Always. It never fails: anytime I think I am starting to figure out how to bass fish, the bass tell me different. I’m sure we all go through it in one way or another. Is it that we are off our game? Or are the bass learning the rules of the game? Always learning how to bass fish Learning Learning is something that anglers should be doing all the time.