Author: Bruce Middleton

Posted: 1/4/2010

A workshop on understanding and using plastic tube baits… Normally tube baits are not search lures, they don’t cover a lot of area in a short time and they don’t dive to different depths. We use them to get into every nook and cranny in cover a bass might hide in. They are made to dissect small parts of a stump field or a weed bed and they are especially good at catching large mouth bass that h...

Author: Bob Johansen

Posted: 1/4/2010

March is usually the month when the highly contagious "twitching disease" strikes most of us northwest bass fishermen. It's probably those first warm sunny days of spring that brings it on. As the faint heat from those first rays of sun hits our casting arm it starts twitching with an almost uncontrollable urge to get out and cast out for Ol' Bucketmouth, Ol’ Minnow Breath and those othe...

Author: Bruce Middleton

Posted: 11/2/2009

Choose lures and baits according to what lives in the lake you’re fishing… When it comes to choosing realistic looking baits or lures to catch a bass on, you need to know several things. Mostly you need to know what is on the bass’s menu in any given lake that you are going to fish so as to aid you in your choice of lures. This means you need to know what kind of fish inhabit the lake with the...

Author: Mike Carey

Posted: 11/2/2009

New products come along from time to time that truly show how far technology has advanced in a particular field. This summer I got to try out several clothing products from Columbia Sportswear, and find out about some of the latest innovations in outdoor wear. We anglers in the Pacific Northwest know all too well that if you aren’t dressed right, you aren’t going to be able to fish long enough to ...

Author: Bruce Middleton

Posted: 8/31/2009

If you like explosive top water action, this lure is for you. Buzz baits, as we know them today, were first introduced in the mid 1970’s. The familiar shape and bent blade look hasn’t changed much since then except for minor blade modifications, skirt material and the addition of some colors. They are an easy and enjoyable lure to use and even a beginner can use one effectively. When using a b...

Author: Mike Carey

Posted: 8/31/2009

This month I’d like to review a new Washington destinations book from Northwest Outdoors writer and radio host John Kruse. This is John’s first book and it looks like he hit a home run with this first effort. Great Places Washington isn’t your typical “go to” guide book. Rather, it is one man’s exploration of some of this state’s prime outdoor recreational areas. And it’s not a one trick pony b...

Author: John Kruse

Posted: 8/31/2009

Call them pinks, humpies, or just plain fun to catch - but if you aren't fishing Puget Sound or tributaries like the Duwamish, Green, Puyallup, Skagit, Snohomish or Skykomish Rivers this month (September) for some of the 5.1 million pink salmon projected to return this year you are missing out!!! How do you catch these fish, which typically weigh 3 to 5 pounds? We'll, start off with a seven to...

Author: Bruce Middleton

Posted: 7/5/2009

A fish finder and a few buoys can mean bass in the boat. Bass are creatures of shallow cover but this doesn’t mean that they live in 4 or 5 feet of water all the time. In fact most bass spend the spring, summer and fall in water that ranges from 12 to 35 feet deep. Now some anglers don’t think this is shallow water but they are wrong. Now a couple of hundred feet of water surely is deep but co...

Author: Bruce Middleton

Posted: 6/15/2009

Don’t just cast and reel, rip the lure instead… When it comes to bass fishing there are as many techniques as there are lures. But if you don’t already know, you can fish each lures in different ways to attract bass to that lure. One of the most common complaints most bass anglers have is that the bass seem lethargic and always seem to bite better on slow moving baits and lures. This limits th...

Author: Bob Johansen

Posted: 5/7/2009

MOST BASS ANGLERS CARRY LARGE TACKLE BOXES LOADED WITH A VAST ARRAY OF DEADLY LURES DESIGNED TO TRICK MR. BASS INTO STRIKING. THE JIG JUST MIGHT BE ONE OF THE BEST. You could say that a bass anglers tackle box is deadly arsenal of many different weapons – All designed to tempt the black bass into striking. Each of these weapons either represent a favorite food of the bass or they are “impul...

Author: Marc Martyn

Posted: 5/7/2009

In the early spring, just after the ice leaves the lakes, figuring out what trout are feeding on can be perplexing. The lingering winter weather with it’s cold nights, cool days and water temperatures in the low 40’s, is a time of year when there are not many insect hatches. There may be a large midge hatch, but matching that hatch can be difficult. The first area of a lake to warm up after ice...

Author: Bruce Middleton

Posted: 5/7/2009

Large lakes hold the promise of bigger bass… I once read an article that stated that a large lake or “big water” as he put it, was anything over 2,000 acres and that most big bass tournaments take place on water that is at least 20,000 acres with some covering 40,000 plus acres. Now at the time this seemed a bit arbitrary to draw a line in the sand and say that 2000 surface acres was the cutof...