Bass fishing … in the winter. It can and does happen, but only for those who don’t mind a little cold and wind. It’s not magic, but more hard work than anything.

Bass have to be hungry to hit a Carolina rig in winter, and most of the time, they're not feeding." Hoernke uses either a 1-ounce spinnerbait or a Norman DD-22 crankbait (sometimes a Mann's 30 ...

Officially, it’s still winter.Recently we had snow and temperatures in the low 20s, characteristics of winter weather, not spring time warmth. Water temperatures locally were up and then down ...

Winter striped bass fishing, however, often means catching smaller stripers, and there are two reasons why this is the case. First, smaller fish tend to migrate south behind the larger fish; ...

In early winter there are some situations where spinnerbaits do an exceptional job of catching bass that are hard to fool with other lures.

Many, if not most, of Texas' million-plus bass anglers would just as soon skip winter and go directly to spring. That could be a mistake. Yes, they would avoid the months from December through ...

View full sizeGuide Robin Vaughn shows a couple of nice stripers caught at Lewis Smith Lake on jigs.Frank Sargeant For anglers who have had enough of trying to encourage largemouth bass to strike ...

Many anglers fail to recognize it, but the last few weeks of winter can serve up some of the year’s best largemouth bass fishing. You’ll have to be able to tolerate the extreme cold, wind ...

Black bass action isn’t going to break any speed records during the winter months, but you can still catch both the largemouth and smallmouth varieties. Look for the largemouth in deeper water ...

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