Author: Patrick Reif ….

This year the majority of my good fish(17″+) have come off of jigs. Recently… finesse jig n pigs.

For all intents and purposes, a tube does the same thing, but there seems to be a greater danger of gut hooking to the fish when inexperienced anglers attempt tube fishing. The risk is modestly decreased with a JNP, but the danger is always present if inattentiveness comes into play. Read the full story

Author:  Hunter King  (RiverCrawler)…..

It is just like the title says; fall is closing in on us and to me that means it is time to break out the high speed search and reaction baits. When fall moves in, the fish start to feed heavily to stay warm so you may want to slow down and present the fish with easy targets like flukes and twitch baits.  I say burn it bye them if your looking for the big ones! This is the time of year I put up my jerk baits, jigs, and anything slower than my Jeep will run.

The baits I will change to now are going to be the faster and LARGER and my reasoning behind this is; a big fish burns a lot of energy to stay warm, so he is going to be looking for larger items to eat so he can take in more calories. The reason he is willing to chase faster moving baits is because he will be moving already to make heat. So it all works for guys like me that want to be using those large search baits. Read the full story

Author:  Jason Stutts

I often use, like many of you riverbasser’s, Rapala’s broke back minnow plugs in the J series.  They range from a tiny J-5 to a GIANT J-17.  The  colors range from black back/silver bottom, black back/gold and white bottom, chartreuse, and yellow perch.
Now for river fishing you often don’t have to go deep to catch big bass and I have learned a lot about using these lures since May 2010 when I first began fishing the Ocmulgee and Flint rivers for shoal bass.  These lures flat out kill all four species that live in the Ocmulgee…the Shoal Bass, Redeye Bass, Largemouth Bass, and Spotted Bass. Read the full story

Author:  Hunter King (RiverCrawler)

….. I do not use crank baits much because it is just not my kind of fishing. This week’s tip is on ways to improve your crank bait fishing for people like me; people that only use crank baits when it is the only way to catch fish. First is color selection; when looking at the lures on the wall you need to think like a fish. When thinking like a fish you are to be thinking about what colors the fish is going to see best. In stained water you do not need baby bass colors, you need colors that will flash and get the attention of the fish, for clear water you go more for the natural and flat colors. Second is the depth the lure will dive; if you are a big time crank bait fisherman you will have a whole collection of sizes and depths but when you rarely use them you need to choose the depth that fits you best. If your average water depth is 4 feet, you want 3-5 ft crank baits. This will allow you to cover the whole range of water from working shallow to knocking the bottom. The same thing applies if your depth is 2 ft, you want 1-3 ft crank baits. The last tip is to not be afraid to throw the crank bait into thick cover. The crank bait’s bill is designed to keep the lure from snagging the bottom and branches, just remember to not set the hook when you are in a tree top and you will be OK throwing crank baits anytime.

For the past couple of years, I have struggled with different ways of rigging swimbaits. Some ways were better than others; until recently, I have not been completely satisfied with any of them. In this video, I will share with you what I have learned. Hopefully, these tips will help increase your catch rate on this awesome bait!!

Recently a great post was made on the River Bassin Forums by klmccllg and it made me realize that it is another common topic we have yet to cover in an article.  This question was posed, “How far is too far to paddle upstream when doing a paddle up trip?” Read the full story

….. This is one tip of many that I wanted to share with my fellow Riverbassin™ friends. It’s the little things that make the difference at the end of the day. Hope this tip is one that helps you!

This is a collection of tips I would like to share with my Riverbassin™ friends.  These tips are some that I use myself and some are tips that have been passed along to me by friends or others I have fished with over the years.  Hopefully,  you will be able to find some that will help you become a betters fisherman or be successful at the sport we all love so much!  Tight Lines!!

There has been a lot of talk on the forums lately about where bass go in the winter.  Well, I hope to shed some light on the topic based on my experience in this article.  Be warned that not every river is the same due to several factors each could have – dam downstream or upstream, large tributary entering it, warmwater discharge by a power plant, a lake downstream etc.

The key to this question is to know more about the bass and the priority of their needs to survive.  It is no different than humans really.  We have certain needs that must be met in order for us to stay alive.  I would put oxygen at number one on that list.  If I am not getting oxygen then everything else is moot because I will be dead.  I’m not thinking about women or food if I can’t breathe!  Likewise, if I am Read the full story

Article by: Dale Oakey (JustFishin)

Over the years I’ve probably canoed and waded a few thousand miles on rivers and streams east of the Mississippi.  As I’ve gotten older the two-man canoes I use seemed to have gotten much heavier. To compensate for age and to extend my river fishing life I purchased an Old Town Discovery 119 which has become my go-to boat. Why a canoe over other options? Primarily because Read the full story