Todd Moen of Catch Magazine has pulled another great video from the vault and posted it on Youtube. As usual, this one stars Brian O’Keefe, who catches some fine trout, bass, and carp in a . . .
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Video: How to Catch Bass on a Fly, with Tom Rosenbauer
Season 2 of the “Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing” TV show kicked off with this great episode on how to catch bass, especially in the early season. Tom talks about temperature, presentation, flies, and finding fish. There’s so much info here, you may . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Catch Bass on a Fly
In Episode 2, host Tom Rosenbauer shows you how to find and catch bass, which are the number one sport fish in America, for good reason. They are great fighters and are in virtually every state. This video will teach you the . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Catch Bass from Tough Structure
In this great video, Conway Bowman shows how to catch largemouth bass in “bad neighborhoods,” by making accurate casts right into the holding area. Be prepared to get snagged or caught on rocks, but that’s simply the price you pay for getting down and . . .
Read MoreVideo: Desert Bass & Bull Bluegills
Here’s the latest installment of the “Buffet Series” from Gilbert Rowley and Phil Tuttle. In this video, they head for the desert, where they find sand, sun, lizards, and some killer fly fishing for largemouth bass and bluegills. The . . .
Read MoreFish Facts: Largemouth Bass, a.k.a Ol’ Bucketmouth
Illustration by Duane Raver via USFWS
Among the more widely distributed game fish in North America, and now around the world, the largemouth bass is prized for its aggressive feeding habits and violent strikes. A big bass blowing up the water around a popper chugging across flat water is. . .
Read More“Bass-Bug Humbug,” by William G. Tapply
Written by: William G. Tapply
Bill Tapply had some awfully strong opinions about what makes a good bass bug.
Photo courtesy Vicki Stiefel
“It is with some degree of trepidation that I approach the subject of artificial flies [for bass],” wrote James A. Henshall in his Book of the Black Bass, “for I am afraid that I hold some very. . .
Read MoreClassic Pro Tips: 7 Keys to Catching River Bass
Written by Winston Cundiff, All Water Guides
River bass require a specialized set of skills and tactics that are very different from those of trout fishing.
All photos courtesy Winston Cundiff
I recently read a “how-to” article about bass fishing on the fly and watched an older video that put tournament gear fisherman alongside a fly guy in the Sacramento Delta. Both were very. . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Locate Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass
As trout rivers warm in late summer, fly-fishing for trout can become downright dangerous for the fish. So many anglers turn their attention to local bass waters. In this great video from the . . .
Read MorePodcasts: Catching Largemouth Bass in Rivers, with Winston Cundiff
Winston Cundiff with a beautiful Texas bass.
Photos courtesy Winston Cundiff
When we think of largemouth bass, most of us either have a vision of a small farm pond or a big wide-open lake. But there are many excellent largemouth bass fisheries in rivers. And the . . .
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