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Rigging breakdowns, size charts and hard-won lake notes from anglers who fish this tackle.
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Cold Front Bass Fishing: Why the Bite Dies and How to Fix It
Every bass angler knows the feeling. You crush them one afternoon, a front rolls through overnight, and the next morning the lake looks perfect...
Read article →Fishing for Bass in the Wind: How Much Weight to Add
Wind is the single biggest variable in a day of bass fishing, and it breaks more anglers' presentations than cold fronts or clear water...
Read article →Fall Bass Fishing: How Your Weight Changes When the Bass Move Up
When the nights start cooling off and the shad pull into the backs of creeks, bass fishing changes — and so should the weight...
Read article →Drop Shot, Shaky Head, Wacky or Neko: Which Finesse Rig, and What Weight?
Every finesse weight we stock has a post explaining what size to use. What none of them answer is the question that comes first...
Read article →Does Your Bait Change the Weight You Need? Bulk, Buoyancy and Drag
Almost every guide to picking a weight, including most of ours, sizes it off the water: how deep, how thick the cover, how hard...
Read article →Nail Weights: What They Are and Which Baits Take One
A nail weight is the only weight in the box that disappears. Every other weight you own rides on the line, in front of...
Read article →How to Rig a Drop Shot, Step by Step
A drop shot is the most forgiving finesse rig in bass fishing and the easiest one to rig badly. Almost every problem people have...
Read article →How Many Tungsten Weights Do You Actually Need?
"How many should I buy?" is a harder question than "which size?", and almost nobody writes about it. The honest answer is not a...
Read article →Flipping vs Pitching: What's the Difference, and What Weight Does Each Need?
Ask around a boat ramp and you will hear flipping and pitching used as if they were the same thing, usually by someone doing...
Read article →Weedless Wacky Weights: When the Weed Guard Earns Its Keep
The wacky rig is the simplest thing in bass fishing and one of the easiest to ruin. Hook through the middle of a stick...
Read article →Which Is Heavier, 3/16 or 1/8 oz? Fishing Weight Sizes in Order
This one comes up constantly, and it is not a silly question. Fishing weights are sold in fractions with different bottom numbers, and a...
Read article →Fishing Rock and Riprap Without Losing Every Weight
Rock holds bass and rock takes weights. Those two facts arrive together, and most anglers respond by fishing rock badly — either avoiding it,...
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