A couple of years back I was fishing in Florida and I had a fishing scent / attractant with me that I had thrown together from some ideas I got from fishing magazines.  The scent was very roughly put together, it was in a mason jar, had chunks of garlic and meat, and s...

Spring Walleye Fishing

As the ice melts, walleye will start moving towards shallow water in the spring as they get ready to spawn.  Reproduction is their main motivation during this time of year.  Bulrush beds on shallow points and reefs will hold many fish throughout t...

Broadly speaking bass fishing patterns are, and this is my definition so others may vary:

"repetitious bass behaviors during a specific period of time, be it hours, a day or several days, throughout a specific body of water".

"Seasonal patterns", wherein bass tend to en...

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1   To improve angling success, consider how fish see and eat.
2   Lure colors that are visible to fish change with increasing water depths.
3   Bright colors look drab to a fish if presented in deep water.
4   In clear water, longer color wavelengths (lik...

Read this article and you may never look at your flies the same way again.

IS COLOR IMPORTANT? This is a serious question for fly tiers and fly fishermen to ask. Some anglers maintain that the choice of color is critical, while others say it is not important. Scientifi...