Professional Bass Angler
By Mark Lassagne Lake Oroville State Recreation Area can be a fun or frustrating place to fish, depending on your goals. If you’re looking for a nice lake – clean water, camping, boating and fishing – that also has a ton of fish, then Oroville is a fun and enjoyable place to be. However, if…
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#image_title Can you learn by not catching a bass? Every time you go bass fishing, it’s a learning experience adding a little more to what you already know or think you might know. No matter how good you are, you won’t catch bass on every outing. As you head off down the lake, what makes…
By Mark Lassagne At the Bassmasters Classic many years ago, Guy Eaker was telling me about a small plate he put in front of his worm to make it shake back and forth (the Eaker Shaker). The bait looked great in the demo tank, but to me it was just another lure. Guy was telling…
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One look at my truck with 6″ lift and blacked-out windows. You can understand how we would need a backup camera. If at a tournament and have to unhook, it’s a real pain getting the trailer back on, requiring getting in and out of the truck making sure it’s lined up. Now, with the help…
SMALL BUT DEADLY SPRING TACTIC By Mark Lassagne That adage “bigger baits catch bigger fish” is true—in most cases—but not with this one. We’re talking about the float-’n’-fly—a small 1/16- to 1/8-ounce hair jig suspended beneath a small bobber using 4- to 6-pound line fished on a super-light spinning rod. Before you say, “I’d never!”…
Open Your Eyes and See What’s Really Down There … By Mark Lassagne Have you ever bought something and then wondered how you ever got along without them? A few years back, I installed Power Poles thinking these are cool, but now after using them I will never have a boat without them. Underwater cameras…
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THE FISHING TIME CRUNCH! By Mark Lassagne Better manage your fishing time! Is there ever enough time? What if I had another 30 minutes? I would have had a limit. “We’ve all been there.” Or “They were just starting to bite, and I had to leave” What if you could have another 30 minutes or…
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SUMMER TRANSITIONS By Mark Lassagne Day 1: 50 fish, including 20 3-plus pound smallies, spots and largemouths. Our best five went about 19 pounds with the biggest at 5 1/2 pounds. Day 2: 65 fish, including one 5-pounder, four 4s, 10 3s, and a bunch of decent bass. Most fish were largemouths, but we also…
March and April found great fishing at Lake Berryessa The warm weather after the last storms brought the fish up shallow to spawn giving us many choices. Early March found the fish on points leading into coves then once the water warmed into the high 50’s the bass moved into the coves along the sunny…
By Mark Lassagne with Ish Monroe Undoubtedly the most important consideration when going fishing is the weather. Weather not only affects how the fish bite, it also lets us know what to wear and how to prepare for the day. Imagine not knowing what it’s like on a given day, showing up in shorts and…
