Jig vs Carolina Rig: A couple of years ago, my nephew (Chris) and I were fishing a tournament at Lake Jacksonville. He was using Carolina rig (CR) and I was using a jig and he was catching all of the fish! At that time I did not like the CR and considered myself a jig...
Texas Bass Fishing Blogs for the Month: November 2004
Pitchin Jigs at Lake Form
Jig vs Carolina Rig: A couple of years ago, my nephew (Chris) and I were fishing a tournament at Lake Jacksonville. He was using Carolina rig (CR) and I was using a jig and he was catching all of the fish! At that time I did not like the CR and considered myself a jig...
Dancin’ in the Moonlight
Spring has sprung and the dawg days are upon us. Fish have vacated the shallows and living in those 300 foot shady depths of Richland where they're tough to catch. Time to stuff the rig back in the moth balls and stay indoors for the summer, not! Allow me to let you...
Slinging a Light Bulb
There are a group of guys that I've fished with for years that have a rather twisted sense of humor. A long running joke amongst these guys is to tell you what bait they're throwing by using the nickname they've assigned to that particular bait. For example a...
You caught her on a WHAT?
Seems that all fisherman love to read about fishing (those that can read of course). It takes about five minutes in my garage, like all my other buddies, to find my four foot tall stack of back issues of Cosmofisherman, NEWSFISH, The Walleye Street Journal, Seventeen...
Bass Fishing Opportunities Missed
A few months ago we lost my 33 year old cousin. Wayne and I spent many days and nights wandering my grandparents farm together. It started with BB guns and cane poles and blossomed to rod and reel and shotguns. My earliest memories of fishing are with Wayne and my...
Professional Bass Fishing
This article has been rattling around in my noggin since BASS at Rayburn in December. It's interesting being on the inside and looking out as a professional fisherman. It's even fun sometimes to see guy's reaction when they get on the circuit and realize just how...
Richland Chambers Past and Future
Seems that most of the anglers one talks to these days here on Richland respond to the question of how'd you do with one of two answers, they either didn't get a bite or they crushed 'em. One need only look at the tournament results to see that Richland, in only four...
The Bass Fishing Game Plan
In an article a few months ago I mentioned how you should always approach an outing with a game plan, I have been asked since what exactly I meant by the term game plan. Nothing can impact your fishing results like time on the water but there are a few things that...
You Wanna Braid My Hair?
It was a simple enough misunderstanding to start with, the only kinda braid I knew about was the kind girls put in each others hair at bunking parties. The old timers remember braided line, but hey us 31 year olds fish with the new stuff, monofilament. Then a...