Fishing

Bass tournament techniques from 2026 winners show how practice, sonar, depth control, and local learning shaped recent event success.

Bass fishing community holes create one of the hardest decisions in tournament fishing: stay where you know bass live, or leave productive water because everyone else knows it too. Drew Gill faced that exact choice on the Kissimmee Chain, and abandoning the obvious area helped turn a five-pound deficit into a championship. The lesson was…

Fall bass weather patterns can turn a productive morning into a completely different fishing problem by noon. During the September transition, bass may not leave a creek or abandon the forage at all — they may simply slide from exposed shallow water into shade, brush or deeper structure as light and wind change. That is…

Premium bass fishing baits are entering territory where anglers should start asking harder questions than whether a lure looks innovative. Rapala’s CrushCity The CEO won the freshwater soft-lure category at ICAST 2026, but with one current independent listing putting a package at $14.99, the real test becomes how much usable fishing an angler receives for…

Shell flat bass fishing can look almost too simple from the surface. There may be no dock, grass line, laydown or obvious target, yet a small patch of hard bottom can hold the heaviest bass in an otherwise featureless stretch. That is the lesson worth taking from Cody Morgan’s recent St. Johns River win. Instead…

Bass fishing grass sweet spots can be frustrating because the best piece of vegetation may look almost identical to hundreds of yards surrounding it. That is exactly why anglers waste so much time in giant grass fields: they find good-looking cover, start casting, and never identify the tiny difference that actually concentrates bass. Recent Chesapeake…

September grass bass fishing can punish anglers who change seasons before the bass do. Cooler mornings and a flipped calendar page may suggest it is time to abandon summer vegetation, yet healthy submerged grass can continue holding some of the best largemouth in the lake while other fish begin their fall migration. The smarter move…

Norfork Lake bass fishing is about to become one of the more revealing tests on the 2026 Bassmaster calendar. When the first Elite Qualifier begins September 23, anglers will face a clear Ozarks reservoir full of moving fall bass without the forward-facing sonar many professionals now use to track suspended fish in real time. Removing…

Colorado Emergency Harvest shows how drought-driven reservoir drawdowns changed fish limits, access, and local fishing plans in 2026.