Bass Fishing
Follow postspawn bass for consistent bites
Perhaps the most-frustrating season for bass fishermen is that period between the end of the spawn and when fish settle into their deeper, summer patterns. […]
Articles by Dan Kibler
Freshwater Fishing
Focus on travel routes for postspawn crappie
Most fishermen understand the basics for targeting crappie before and during their spring spawn, but when fish leave spawning grounds and head to deep water, what’s the deal? […]
Bass Fishing
3 productive lures for postspawn bass
Bass fishermen hate the thought of having to catch fish that have just finishing spawning and are often acting sickly, but sometimes they just have to figure out how to catch these finicky fish. […]
Hunting
How to guard against tick-borne diseases
Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.
It’s not necessarily the sound of a time bomb, but it just might be. […]
Bass Fishing
Swim a jig for extra bites
Jigs are regularly tied on by bass fishermen year round, but they are especially important tools during the spring. Hopped and crawled along the bottom, they imitate the movements of a crawfish, a favorite food of largemouths, smallmouths and spotted bass. […]
Bass Fishing
Picking the right spinnerbait
A spinnerbait is one of the most-effective lures when it comes to catching bass, but clearly not all spinnerbaits are created equal. […]
News Breaker
Call less, kill more gobblers
If Marshall Collette of Greensboro, N.C. strung together all the beards from the turkeys he’s killed or called in for other hunters on a piece of rawhide, you could probably use it to measure for first downs in a football game. […]
Bass Fishing
Lipless crankbaits key to more March bass
Lipless baits and crankbaits like the Shad Rap have been favorite early spring baits among bass fishermen for years because they consistently produce fish. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Go old-school for shallow crappie
Melvin Cummings was an expert crappie fishermen 20 years before the words “spider rigging” ever became popular among the crowd that targets slabs — and even though he understands that the concept of multiple-pole trolling is tremendously effective, there’s at least one time of year when he isn’t going to put his single rod down for any reason. […]
Bass Fishing
Hometown favorite Ashley wins 2015 Bassmaster Classic
This time, Mighty Casey didn’t strike out.
Casey Ashley, a 31-year-old bass pro from Donalds, S.C., hit a home run on Sunday on his home water and won the 2015 Bassmaster Classic with a great final-day catch of more than 20 pounds. […]
Fishing Tournaments
Hackney just misses Top 25 Classic cut
Louisiana’s three-man contingent in the Bassmaster Classic will watch Sunday’s third and final day from the sidelines, all having finished out of the top 25 after Saturday’s action on South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell. […]
Bass Fishing
Louisiana anglers find going tough on Day 1 of Bassmaster Classic
Louisiana’s contingent of three bass fishermen was largely disappointed in their performance on Friday’s first day of the Bassmaster Classic on South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell, but one of them is still definitely in the mix for the title. […]
Crappie/Bream
February is best month to load up on crappie
Fishermen who wait until March to break out their crappie rods are missing some of the best fishing of the year. […]
Bass Fishing
Hackney, Crochet prepare for frigid Friday conditions at Bassmaster Classic
When the 2015 Bassmaster Classic kicks off on Friday morning on Lake Hartwell, the field of 56 anglers will be fishing against each other and the spotted and largemouth bass in the 56,000-acre reservoir lake. […]
Hog Hunting
Father-son duo bring home the bacon, down 700-pound-plus N.C. hog
Jonathan Florence admitted that it was “pure luck”, but neither he nor his father, Bruce, is about to downplay the hunt last Friday in Transylvania County that ended with Bruce Florence killing a 707 ½-pound wild hog he said could be best described with one word: buffalo. […]
Bass Fishing
Spoons get bass biting in the cold
With cold water dictating a lot of what bass fishermen do in January, there’s one lure that can be counted on for plenty of bites: a jigging spoon. […]