Try The Top
Tip: well it has been working well for me hit next to the brush and logs in the water with a top water chugger. It can be in 3' to 9' foot of water around the same color as a baby bass

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Largemouth Bass
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Buzzbait
Tip: try trimming the buzzbait skirt even with the belly of the hook. this will help stop those short strikes from bass. Also try bending the wire of the jig part slightly down a little.

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Largemouth Bass
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Spawning Catfish Trouble
Tip: The channel catfish are spawning in my lake and probably most other lakes. I have found that casting your bait (I recommend worms more than anything) closer to the bank, about ten feet out works really good!

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Channel Catfish
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Catch All Fish
Tip: I have found that if you use a Rapala small minnow and hook a frog to the back of it it works exceptionally well. I didnt think it would work at first, and just thought I would try it, so I did and I caught 2 Big speckled perch, a few blue gill/shell cracker and a couple nice size bass. The bass were all about 4 lbs. It works every time if you let it run deep. Try it for yourself!!!!

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Any
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Tip The Spinner
Tip: To get that extra fish who won't bite on just anything, try tipping your spinner bait or your buzzbait with an artificial minnow or shad. Even try with a live minnow!!! Good Fishin!!

Water Type: Any	Types of Fish: Any
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

The Yummy Mello Worm
Tip: Having trouble keeping your nightcrawler off the bottom a little bit? Try putting a piece of marshmallow on the hook before the crawler! A few corn pops work good too!!!

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Channel Catfish
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Lure Preparation For Brush
Tip: When fishing around heavy brush for bass you always seem to get hung up if you use crankbaits. I take some of my favorite shallow divers and clip off the front barb on the treble hooks. You still have the two barbs on each hook which is plenty to snag the bass. You will also need to make sure that you align the eyes to each treble hook so that where you cut the hook off will be in the front and the other two barbs will be in the rear. When you crank over logs or brush the hooks just slide over them and you will have an edge on your fishing buddies that can only throw weedless lures and rubber rigs in the brush areas. Take one of you older crankbaits and use it for trial and error so than when you get the feel of it, you will want to try a new lure. Crankbaits catch big bass. Deep diving crankbaits do not seem to work well using this process, I usually use crankbaits that dive to 3 feet.

Water Type: Any	Types of Fish: Largemouth Bass
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Sppiners For Muskie And Pike
Tip: When fishing in Canada I like to use a big pink spinner with pink blades. I have these little worms with little tenticles that I put on the hook of my sppiner. The pike and the muskie love this combo. You just hook any kind of worm on your hook for extar action and atraction. I like to use colors that resimble native fish. This tip works good on slow and fast retrivals.

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Any
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Rubber Lizzards And Shallow Crankbaits
Tip: I have found that when fishing brush area`s for largemouth bass a way to get there attention better. I will take a shallow crankbait and pitch it at the edge of the brush a few times. The last time that I pitch the crankbait I leave it suspended on the top water. I than take a rubber lizzard [ rigged Texas style]and cast it into the deep brush and reel it out slow letting it drop in and out of the brush. Do not forget about your crankbait floating the topwater because sometimes as I am pulling the lizzard toward the crankbait I will have a fast topwater strike and this method seems to attract larger bass. I think that the bass follows the lizzard because the noise of the crankbait but if they are leary of the lizzard they might strike the floating crankbait. A couple of times I have caught two fish at once doing this. It was fun but hard to get both in. I would like input if you try this method. e mail me at tschlein@cableone.net

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Largemouth Bass
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting

Get Their Attention First
Tip: I have found that it is helpful to first work the top water and this will get the attention of the fish in the area often prompting a few strikes. After doing this when the strikes die down then start working beneath the surface with your plastics, spinner baits and cranks. This is also a good way to locate bass under the surfac.

Water Type: Freshwater	Types of Fish: Largemouth Bass
Fishing Type: Spinning/Baitcasting