In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

Major League Fishing pro David Walker taught in an impromptu "Shad Spawn 101" class in early May while fishing on camera in an MLF Now! Livestream of the Bass Pro Tour’s Stage 4 tournament on ...

Spawning season is when bass fishing myths do the most damage. You hear hard rules repeated every spring—dates, temperatures, moon phases, and behaviors that are supposedly set in stone. The problem ...

1. In Lakeland, bass are continuing to spawn, so stick to the shallow water, try flipping dark-colored creature baits. If you can find them, try shiners for bass as well. Specks continue to hit ...

The spawn is the most exciting time of year to target big bass. As water temperatures warm, largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass become more active and move into shallow water to start bedding.

Strip your kayak down to essentials during bass spawn: three rods, net, paddle, and tackle crate. Use topographic maps to find shallow flats near depth changes that boat anglers can't reach. Deploy an ...

All fishing has certain key elements that determine not only how good the fishing will be, but when, where and how to fish. Spawning time for largemouth bass is no exception. In fact, these elements ...

I rounded the corner and there he stood, posturing like a human version of a great blue heron. Power Poles down and eyes fixed on the shallows, Todd Driscoll was clearly on point. There was a bass ...

Beaver Lake: Fishing is on for awhile, then off when cold fronts arrive. Try for crappie around brush. The lake level is dropping, and that could cause crappie to move out deeper than they normally ...

Shad spawns can pay off big, but bass pros who win big money don’t go all in on them. To catch big bass all day during a shad spawn, you gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. In an ...