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Posted by Texas Fishing Guide | Apr 12, 1999 | Texas Fishing News |
To Braid or Not to Braid By now most of us have had experience with the new versions of braided line. Opinions of the line vary from each fisherman of its uses and applications. Many fishermen use the line for a few special...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Jan 27, 1999 | Texas Fishing News |
Carolina Riggin Basics The Carolina Rig is a method of plastic worm fishing that is very effective for structure fishing for black bass. There is a wide variety of structures in the lakes of East Texas. On Lake Conroe there are...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Aug 21, 1998 | Texas Fishing News |
Fishing Trip from Hell Last spring I was guiding everyday on Lake Conroe during my two week off limits for the Texas Invitational at Lake Sam Rayburn. I had been counting down the days before the event and running bass fishing...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Apr 9, 1998 | Texas Bass Fishing Reports |
Where to Start I recently was talking to Pat McCarty (the editor of this magazine) about some of the emails we receive concerning fishing. We both get a good bit of email from people who are beginners or have never fished and...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Jan 30, 1998 | Texas Bass Fishing Tournaments |
Fishing the Top 100 After fishing seven tournaments last Fall from here to the Canadian border in New York I feel confident in saying that a bass is a bass no matter where you are. I fished tournaments in New York, Virginia,...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Jan 30, 1998 | Texas Bass Fishing Tournaments |
On the Trail I hit the snooze button a couple of times before I finally realized that it was actually my alarm clock telling me to get up this morning. My small camper on the back of my truck sleeps well when I am on the...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Jul 1, 1997 | Texas Bass Fishing Tournaments |
Organization – One Key To Success For the last few weeks I have been gearing up for the upcoming 97-98 BassMaster season. Fishing fifteen B.A.S.S. events in one season is going to me a new experience for me. So in...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Apr 29, 1997 | Texas Bass Fishing Reports |
Matching Line to Lures How often are you fishing a lure and know that you are not throwing it on the right pound test? Too often probably if you are like me, and simply don’t want to strip all of that line off to replace it...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Mar 26, 1997 | Texas Bass Fishing Reports |
Little Things II My January column titled “Little Things†was about all the little steps you take as a fisherperson and how they all work together to make you a better angler. I am going to be writing about some of the...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Feb 27, 1997 | Boating Safety |
Handling BIG Water Last month on the first competition day of the Texas Invitational I encountered some rough water that I believed only existed in the Gulf of Mexico. Sure I have been on Toledo, Livingston, Conroe, Rayburn, and...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Nov 1, 1996 | Texas Bass Fishing Tournaments |
Never Count Your Chickens Still attempting to get my act together on the BassMaster Invitational Circuit I headed to the Arkansas River last month to fish the first Invitational of the Central Division. The section of river we...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Oct 4, 1996 | Texas Bass Fishing Tournaments |
Arkansas River Central Division Anxiously awaiting the first tournament of the 96-97 B.A.S.S. Central Division season on the Arkansas River reminds me of my first B.A.S.S. event. My first event was this same tournament last year...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Aug 2, 1996 | Texas Bass Fishing Tournaments |
Rookie Jitters Dewey Kendrick, the B.A.S.S Tournament Director, walked into the Jasper High School gym and slammed the door telling one of his staff members to fine anyone else who walked through the door. It was 7pm and in...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Feb 2, 1996 | Texas Fishing News |
East Texas Duck Hunting Being more of a fisherman than a duck hunter I was unaware, until recently, that this year marks a year of record setting duck populations. The “pot hole†region of North Dakota and Southern Canada...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Dec 19, 1995 | Texas Fishing News |
Texas Angler in Africa December 19th, 1995 I was standing in line at Houston Intercontinental Airport waiting to board a flight to London, England. From there I would catch another flight to Lagos, Nigeria in Africa. I was...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Dec 18, 1995 | Texas Fishing News |
Duck Hunting Lake Livingston The second split of duck season is always greeted with eager duck hunting locals of Lake Livingston’s north end. On Friday December the 8th two friends of mine, Chris Swift and Brian Broadus and I...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Nov 2, 1995 | Texas Bass Fishing Reports |
Texas Rig Worm Fishing Basics One of most effective ways of fishing shallow shoreline structures for largemouth black bass is using a Texas Rigged worm. The rig is designed for fishing shallow water with precision and...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Sep 29, 1995 | Texas Fishing News |
Living on Lake Livingston Living on Lake Livingston for the past six years has lead me to several understandings about bass fishing and this lake itself….change. Because of the “change” that I am referring to...
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Aug 11, 1995 | Texas Saltwater Fishing Reports |
Back to the Coast Last month I had the opportunity to fish with a couple friends of mine down at the coast, Brian and Darren Broaddus. Their family and another family own a floating house barge down in the Christmas Bay area....
Read MorePosted by Texas Fishing Guide | Feb 22, 1995 | Texas Fishing News |
Weather Wise Recently I was on the water guiding a father and son party on a fishing trip. We were fishing a couple of main-lake humps down on the south end of the lake and spooning up crappie, white bass, black bass, and yellow...
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