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Largemouth bass are hungry and ready to chase just about anything during May, including topwater lures. The best month to catch bass
May 2008
If there’s a month on the calendar that every bass fisherman should have circled, it’s May.

Why? Largemouths are everywhere.

Soft-plastic lures such as a Zoom Trick Worm are good choices for April bass that are in the prespawn mode. Bass fishing is pedal-to-metal
April 2008
I like to call April the “plastic month.” It’s also the month when you really have to put the pedal to the metal.

What does that mean? Well, April actually is a tough month for me because I’m happier when fish are in deeper water, and during April, they’re as shallow as they’ll be all year.

March is when a largemouth bass’s metabolism — and lure chasing — heats up because he’s not been eating much during colder months. It’s prime time for big bass in N.C.
March 2008
It seems like I talk about the same thing each March.

I’d love to focus on something else — maybe how to rig your new boat or how to get your tackle ready for the season — but I just can’t. That’s because bass fishing in North Carolina is just too good in March. It’s absolutely the best month of the year if you’re looking to catch the biggest bass of your life.

Pro bass angler Bernie Schultz knows a jerkbait is a good way to fish for bass suspended in deep water this month.
Use a s-l-o-w approach this month
February 2008
Describing the kind of bass fishing at most North Carolina lakes during February is fairly easy and can be done with one word — slow.

Cleaning the screens on your electronics can keep them crystal clear and easy to see or severely damage their optical quality, depending on whether you follow good advice or bad. First electronics rule: Do no harm
February 2008
Every now and then, I’ll hear someone at a tackle shop or out at a launch ramp give advice on caring for electronics that stands my hair on end. The most frequent category of advice is how to clean LCD screens or, more accurately, the protective lenses that cover them.

The best places to fish for winter bass will be at lakes that have warm-water discharges. But there are other options to keep anglers busy during January. Three ways to handle cold months
January 2008
January is a tough month for fishing in North Carolina. It’s really winter now, and January and February are the two coldest months of the year.

Winter is a good time to find striped bass at Kerr Lake or Lake Gaston by fishing the same areas that held crankbait bass during the middle of summer. Try stripers, crappie this winter
December 2007
December is a great month to do a lot of things, not the least of them being hunting deer, organizing your tackle and cleaning up your boat.

But I have to admit December always has been a month when I could just sit back for two or three days and fish for fun. And for me, that’s fishing for stripers and crappie.

Bass will be concentrated at main parts of creeks instead of shallow areas during November. Low water levels have high side
November 2007
I love to go deer hunting in November, and the way our lakes are drying up across North Carolina, that may be my only option.

Bass will move to shallower water, especially the backs of creeks, chasing shad during October. But many still be near deeper water. October is prime time for bass
October 2007
Like a lot of fishermen, I can’t wait for October to arrive.

The weather’s usually more bearable and bass are biting a lot better. It’s probably my second favorite month of the year to fish — after June — and it’s a month when I can count on being able to fish the way I like with a crankbait.

Water conditions change so much during September that anglers will have to alter their fishing strategies from deep to shallow approaches by the last days of the month. September a Jekyll-Hyde month
September 2007
The page on my calendar for September has only 30 days, but I’d swear sometimes it feels like there should be two months there.




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