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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week National Guard Pro Brett Hite, Phoenix, Arizona When I’m practicing for an upcoming tournament, there are a couple of important things I take into account. For one, there’s the body of water I’m fishing. Is it a Lake Guntersville, or a Beaver Lake? If I figure it’s going…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Rayovac Pro Jason Christie, Park Hill, Oklahoma A lot of guys underestimate or discount the mental game involved in bass fishing. When you’re fishing in a tournament, or practicing for one, you don’t want any distractions or anything on your mind except figuring out the bass. Before you…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Chevy Pro Bryan Thrift, Shelby, North Carolina One of the best places to fish for postspawn bass is under docks that are near where they spawned. These fish will stick around for a while unless the bottom falls out of the lake. Of course, bass aren’t under every…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Walmart Pro Wes Strader, Spring City, Tennessee Those toolbox liners that absorb moisture so that tools won’t rust will also keep fish hooks from rusting, which is why I use them in my tackle boxes. I’ll cut out a piece to cover the whole lid of a Plano…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Castrol Pro David Dudley, Lynchburg, Virginia When I choose line for fishing soft plastics, light jigs or shaky heads, I don’t worry about whether the fish can see it. My main concern is how the line will make the lure fall in the water. For instance, if I…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Folgers Pro Scott Suggs, Bryant, Arkansas I always have a bundle of spare rods with me in case I break one or two during a tournament. I’ve found that the best way to keep them from getting beat up and banged around is to use some 3M Painter’s…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week OFF! Pro Terry Bolton, Paducah, Kentucky When I’m fishing crankbaits and the fish seem to be just slapping at the lure and missing the hooks, I’ll upsize the back treble from, say, a No. 6 to a No. 4. A lot of times fish are sluggish in the…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Goodwill Pro Chad Grigsby, Maple Grove, Minnesota In spring it’s always a good idea to plan on covering water and throwing a lot of different lures until you find the two or three that work better than others. I keep about 10 rigs on my front deck, with…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week 2011 All-American Champion Jacob Wheeler, Indianapolis, Indiana I fish docks and shoreline cover a lot when I’m practicing for a tournament. On the last day of practice I’ll put on fresh line because the old stuff has gotten nicked and abraded. But I don’t wait until the night…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Chevy Pro Jimmy Houston, Cookson, Oklahoma A lot of fishermen make the mistake of applying a good technique or pattern that works on their home lake to every lake. It’s a waste of time in most cases. Lakes have a lot of similarities, but they also have a…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Rayovac Pro Jason Christie, Park Hill, Oklahoma A fisherman should work out the tackle management system that makes sense to him. By this time of year I’ve gone through my boat and replenished everything I think I might need anywhere the tournament trail goes. Otherwise, I take each…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Castrol Pro Darrel Robertson, Jay, Oklahoma Last year I won six tournament checks with a Gene Larew Biffle Bug that I fished in shallow cover. I really like that bait because every little leg and tail on it seems to be moving all the time when it’s in…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week National Guard Pro Justin Lucas, Guntersville, Alabama In early spring when the water is still cold – say, in the mid to high 40s – I never want my jerkbait floating on top. It needs to be suspending or even sinking a little. First of all, I fish…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Chevy Pro Jay Yelas, Corvallis, Oregon Sometimes fish will hit at a swimbait as it goes by, but not get the hook inside their mouths because of the angle of their approach. When that happens consistently, I’ll add a Size 2 treble hook to the bait and let…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Cheez-It Pro Shinichi Fukae, Palestine, Texas During much of the year, bass fishermen have many choices to make when it comes to where to fish and which lures to use. In spring, when the weather is warmer and bass are spawning or preparing to spawn, the choices are…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week EverStart Pro Randall Tharp, Gardendale, Alabama Good fishing glasses are always important, but especially in early spring when bass are bedding or cruising the shallows. Distortion-free, polarized glasses will let you see fish, but also will help remove any doubt that what you’re looking at really isn’t a…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Evinrude Pro Andy Morgan, Dayton, Tennessee Buzzing a frog has been a great springtime technique for me, especially when the weather is just starting to get consistently warm and that first batch of spawners moves up into super-shallow water. I Texas-rig a Zoom Horny Toad on a 5/0…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Ranger Pro Clifford Pirch, Payson, Arizona Winter is one of my favorite times to drop-shot because the fish tend to stack up in certain places and stay there. Of course, it’s very critical that you pinpoint the locations where fish are holding. When I get to a deep,…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Folgers Pro Scott Suggs, Bryant, Arkansas A lot of people are still in the experimental stage with the Alabama Rig, including me. There have been all kinds of variations that have come out since the original one, and I’ve tried a good many of them. One of my…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Castrol Pro Mike Surman, Boca Raton, Florida It won’t be long before bass start moving toward the shallows and staging for the spawn. This is the time of the year when the most big bass are available to an angler because there are only a relatively few places…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Chevy Pro Jimmy Houston, Cookson, Oklahoma One of the best ways to spend your spare time in the off season is to learn how to pitch a lure of cast underhand or sidearm underhand. When you’re going more for accuracy than distance, pitching or using an underhand cast…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week IAMS/Pringles Pro Vic Vatalaro, Kent, Ohio I prefer spinning tackle for skipping lures under a dock because I can get even a lightweight worm or a Zoom Fluke a long way up under there. The rod action I like is a medium-heavy and I usually go with a…
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week Snickers Peanut Butter Squared Pro Chris Baumgardner, Gastonia, North Carolina At the end of the year I like to reflect back on my tournament season and consider what worked for me. One thing I’ve noticed is that fishing flats produced some good catches for me in 2011. Though…
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Nowadays when I’m flipping soft-plastics in heavy grass, I use a little trick that Peter Thilveros showed me. I tie the hook to my braided line with a snell knot.
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FLW Pro Fishing Tip of the Week National Guard Pro Brent Ehrler, Redlands, California If you’re using a suspending jerkbait, which is a great lure this time of year, you’ll notice that a lot of bass will just follow your bait without hitting it. Sometimes I’ll get 30 follows to every 5 bass I catch.…
