Ima Lures and Optimum Baits Pro Fred Roumbanis landed the biggest fish in the 2014 Bassmaster Classic with his 9-pound, 3-ounce giant. Fred reports catching the fish on a Pepper Custom Baits Roumbler with an Optimum Double Diamond trailer. This is one of Fred’s favorite big fish baits and it paid off for him at […]
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32-03. Not just the biggest limit of Paul Mueller’s life. Not just the biggest limit of the 2014 Bassmaster Classic. The biggest five-fish limit in Bassmaster Classic history. VanDam, Iaconelli and Skeet Reese didn’t come close. Even eventual winner Randy Howell, whose last day assault on Guntersville’s bass clinched the title, didn’t hit the 30
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Connecticut angler Paul Mueller guides on Candlewood Lake, and he’s convinced that this year at least 30 to 40 of his clients landed their personal best smallmouth under his tutelage. Location and presentation are of course critical, but Mueller believes that his job has been made easier by virtue of two particular Reins soft plastics,
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The road to the Bassmaster Classic is not easy via any of the available paths, but the Federation route may be the toughest, at least in terms of sheer numbers. An angler has to qualify from his state, then be the top angler from his state at the Divisional, and then be the top angler
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Tungsten weights are the same across the board, right? So why should you hunt down the ones from Reins, which may not yet be as easy to find as some of the “major” brands, and might even cost a few pennies more? The answers are simple and several, said South Carolina pro Michael Murphy. Once
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As summer transitions into fall, bass anglers increasingly encounter schooling action from bass who are putting on the feedbag and putting a scare into the local baitfish populations. When the fish start busting the surface, most weekend warriors attack them with power techniques like topwaters, big swimbaits and lipless crankbaits. Those lures have their place,
ZAPPU Inchi-Wacky At an Elite Series event on Bull Shoals Reservoir in Arkansas earlier this year, Kurt Dove suspected he’d have to rely on finesse tactics. His hunch proved correct as many anglers in the top ten fished small tubes or shakey head worms. “It was super clear water,” he recalled. “And fishing really light
Tackling the Baitfish Spawn with the Skimmer With August water temperatures in the low 80s, Kurt Dove assumed that the shad spawn on Lake Amistad was long over, but recently he came across a situation where small baitfish were utilizing the ledges in the lake’s rocky bluffs to spawn. Not surprisingly, the largemouths were right
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ZAPPU-Twin Blade The swim jig revolution isn’t just limited to small pockets of the country anymore. While it used to have devotees primarily in far-flung locations like Wisconsin and Alabama, today most serious anglers who want to catch shallow-water bass around any type of cover have integrated a horizontally-presented leadhead into their arsenal. So, with
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If you save your lipless crankbaiting exclusively for the pre-spawn bass of the spring, you’re missing out on some of the year’s best bites, said Elite Series pro Kurt Dove. He dotes on an Ima Rock N’ Vibe throughout the late summer and well into the fall. “It’s great in fall because the fish are
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