Luring Largemouth Bass

A complete how-to guide for finding and catching largemouth bass throughout the season in lakes, farm ponds, rivers or reservoirs. Features proven methods on catching more and bigger largemouth bass. In developing this book, the author, Don Oster, and a team of researchers and photographers fished with local guides and tournament bass pros from Minnesota to Mexico to uncover the secrets that can help you be a better bass angler.

A complete how-to guide for finding and catching largemouth bass throughout the season in lakes, farm ponds, rivers or reservoirs. Features proven methods on catching more and bigger largemouth bass. In developing this book, the author, Don Oster, and a team of researchers and photographers fished with local guides and tournament bass pros from Minnesota to Mexico to uncover the secrets that can help you be a better bass angler.

-- A comprehensive look at all aspects of the sport.-- Tips for catching bass in lakes, reservoirs and rivers.

Bass fishing requires more than just patience—it requires cunning and insight. Largemouth bass are the most popular game fish in the US. Found in nearly every state, they present an exciting and powerful challenge to anglers of all levels. In The Pocket Guide to Seasonal Largemouth Bass Patterns, author Monte Burch offers advice on determining where to find big bass, and how to effectively catch them. This guide is broken into eight sections covering the most distinct seasonal periods in the life of a bass, beginning with early spring and the prespawn and carrying through to the postspawn and finally the winter. Each section includes information on that season’s typical water conditions, temperature, and clarity, and is supplemented with maps that illustrate the best locations to find the biggest bass. Burch also gives time-tested advice on which gear works best, and when. This updated and expanded edition now features color photographs. So whether you are a beginning largemouth-bass angler or an experienced fisherman, The Pocket Guide to Seasonal Largemouth Bass Patterns will prove to be an essential guide for you to carry at all times. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for fishermen. Our books for anglers include titles that focus on fly fishing, bait fishing, fly-casting, spin casting, deep sea fishing, and surf fishing. Our books offer both practical advice on tackle, techniques, knots, and more, as well as lyrical prose on fishing for bass, trout, salmon, crappie, baitfish, catfish, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Tom Mann is an American original. Growing up in Depression-era Alabama, for him fishing was more than a recreational activity-it was a way of putting dinner on the table. Following his father's simple advice, "to catch fish, you have to find fish," six-year-old Tom came up with an innovative way of finding the drop-offs in a creek where fish seek refuge from predators. As a young teenager, he began to design and craft special lures, always with an eye toward tricking the freshwater dean of the deep-the largemouth bass. Tom's innate talent in outsmarting the competition above and below the waterline quickly took him from local hero to three-time world bass fishing champion to living legend. He also tapped into his skill for designing lures, building a multi-million-dollar enterprise that has sold over one billion lures to date in major sporting goods and fishing retailers around the world, all with his smiling face on the packages. Yet despite the prestige and fame of a forty-year career, he still resides where it all began-deep in the heart of the South. Filled with touching childhood stories and hilarious down-home fisherman's lore, "Think Like a Fish reveals how Mann quite literally learned to "think like a fish." He explains the technique and mindset that enable him to lure a fish from thirty yards away into a circle the size of a hula hoop; how he "trains" bass to jump right into his boat; and how he purportedly managed to lure a shark to shore with rod and reel. But in addition to the fishing techniques and words of wisdom, Mann explores the path that got him where he is today-a poignant story of determination, Southern grit, and good-ole-boy charm. Full of gentle humor andwit, this book brings to life the allure of the South and one of its favorite pastimes.

The purpose of this book is to make the reader a better bass angler. The books covers where the fish live, what they eat, as well as lures and techniques that put them on the fishing line under fishing conditions of all kinds.

A master fly fisherman reveals the essentials of fly fishing for largemouth, smallmouth, and exotics.

In his decades of bass fishing, Larry Larsen covered the bass' global range, from Minnesota to Honduras, from the Hawaiian Islands to Cuba. His personal best largemouth weighed more than 12 pounds, and he established an official line class world record in 1982 for Suwannee bass. A frequent contributor to national and regional outdoor publications, he has written about bass fishing for more than 20 years. His writings detail highly productive fish-catching methods and special techniques. He gives his readers the most productive tactics to find and catch bass. This book will give you a better understanding of America's number one gamefish -- and it will make you a better bass fisherman. Illus.