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The article offers information on techniques to locate bass fish and have a good view of them. It is stated that in summer bass moves out from the shallow waters to deeper end making it difficult to locate them. Several tips are offered to help getting a good view of them. It is suggested that summer is the best time for bassing close to creek channels. Other tips include using heavy tackle for fishing bass, picking spots with features that attract bass and using crankbaits in late summers.

The article focuses on the use of dead-sticking technique to wrestle reluctant stripers from depth in Texas waters. The author inferred that dead-sticking is cranking or dropping a lure to certain depth and leaving it there with no imparted motion. This method works in the heat of summer and dead of winter. According to Joe Read, a long-time striped bass guide on Lake Tawakoni that there are times when stripers are not in the mood to hit an active lure.

The article presents hotspots located in Texas. The Laguna Vista Flats in Lower Laguna Madre offers its best baits including live mullet and shrimp, topwaters in red or white, and soft plastics in morning glory. Baffin Bay's East Kleberg Rocks provides croaker, soft plastics in chartreuse, fire tiger and natural patterns. The Dressing Point Reef in East Matagorda Bay has live shrimps on Alameda rigs, live croaker and topwaters.

The article presents information about top fishing hotspots on the Lower Gulf Coast of Texas. Airport Cove is one of the fishing hotspots. It is situated near Lower Laguna Madre. Speckled trouts and redfish are found in its waters. The fishes in Airport Cove are found swimming in shallow waters. Windy days are good bait days. Brownsville Ship Channel is another fishing hotspot. The species of fishes found here are sheepshead and black drum. The places best suited for fishing sheepshead are deep water off points. Braided line is best for fishing at Brownsville

This article focuses on various bait that are used in fishing. Never satisfied with the status quo, fishermen constantly experiment with better ways to entice and catch fish. Today's angler owes a great debt to a few individuals who turned ideas into reality. Nick Creme was one of those pioneers. Creme was the first soft plastic bait developer, who in 1949 concocted, poured, molded, and successfully marketed the plastic worm he dubbed the "Scoundrel." One may add Herb Reed to the prestigious pioneer lure developer list. In the mid-1980s, Reed developed a lure he called the "Slug-Go," which became the world's first soft plastic jerkbait.

The article offers information on the fishing technique of 'doddlesocking' for catching bass fish. It explains the meaning of the term and mentions that a fishing rod at least 10 feet long is the basic equipment for doddlesocking. It describes the technique for using the fishing rod and baits and also informs about the best places to go doddlesocking.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of fishing winter crappie.

The article presents the author's experiences of using pliers from XTools. The author had lost the number of fishing pliers, some were accidentally dropped overboard or ruined by corrosion. The author has believed that XTools and their remarkable development of pliers that are strong enough to withstand the rigors of marine fishing. During a redfish trip to the Central Texas coast the author had bought a pair of XTools 6.5-inch floating bent nose pliers. The pliers had worked great. They had floated well and their composite material construction had provided plenty of strength to handle fish de-hooking with ease.

The article presents information on the largemouth bass fishing hotspot, Old 2946 Road Bed, Lake Fork, Texas. Here, at this place one will have to target both inside and outside edges as the fish will be where the shad are holding. Also, it is important to bounce the crankbait along the bottom and pause frequently. Another important thing to keep in mind when fishing here is that fish slowly.

This article focuses on the popularity of spinnerbaits as the most effective fishing tool, specially in Texas. The article presents views of Jimmy Houstan, who is considered to have done more to place the gaudy gadgets in the tackle boxes of American bass fishermen than any other professional angler. Houston defined spinnerbait fishing for largemouth bass on his weekly television show. According to Houstan, whatever their true appeal to predatory gamefishes, spinnerbaits are without question one of the most effective lures year-round. Spinnerbaits are claimed to be one of the best angling tool, because of several reasons. Among those reasons, the most significant is that they are cheap to purchase compared to highly finished crankbaits and that they are easy for beginners to master. Many retailers sell generic brand versions for less than $2.00. The spinnerbaits effective fish-catching range, reportedly, extends from the surface to at least 40 feet.

The article presents information about new tackle storage systems for boats. The Easy Care System consists of spring tension clips set up in rows, much like snack chip racks in convenience stores. The clips mount to just about any flat surface with adhesive or stainless steel screws. The beauty of the system is that tackle can remain in the manufacturer's original bag, which makes it easy to view and use. Simply clip it on, drop the lid, and it is out of sight yet easy to access. Kits come complete with all hardware and instructions.

The article presents information on the Power Plant, a hotspot for largemouth bass fishing, which is in Lake Lavon, Texas. The bass fishes that are found here are shallow and tight to cover in water 8 feet deep or less. Crawfish colored soft plastics on a Carolina rig can be used on Lavon. A chrome-and-blue or black Bandit 100-200 series crankbait can also be used on Lavon.

The article presents information on the largemouth bass fishing hotspot, Opossum Creek, which is in Choke Canyon Reservoir, Texas. For fishing in the thick stuff here, it is important to use braided line testing 30-50 pounds and stout hooks. Big fish will be holding tight to heavy cover. Heavy tackle is necessary to winch largemouth bass out of the cover before they can wrap up and become another big fish that got away.

The article presents information about fishing at Johnson Creek on Lake O' the Pines in Texas. Largemouth bass is the most commonly found fish in this area. The baits that are best suited for fishing in this area are black/blue 3/8-ounce jigs with pork trailer, white spinnerbaits, jigs and minnows. Bass are usually found wintering along the edges of the creek channels at the lower end of the lake.

The article reports that Nolan Ryan, Steve Carlton, Roger Clemens, and Randy Johnson are all members of one of the most prestigious clubs in major league baseball. All four of the legendary pitchers struck out more than 3000 batters in their careers. They all have the uncanny ability to present the ball in such a manner that hitters cannot resist taking a swipe when it moves into their strike zone. That characteristic is what has made them among the best pitchers to ever play the game. Bass anglers who want to achieve the same response from big league bass might take notice.

The article describes five ways of fishing giant bass. Forget the adage of using a big bait to catch a big fish as many examples exists of fishermen catching giant bass with small lures. Find a lure on the bank or snagged in weeds close to the shoreline. Odds are good that a big bass struck that lure, then immediately took control of the situation while the hapless angler stood by in a state of shock. The bass either wrapped the line around a stump or root and broke the line, or leaped from the water and flung the offending hooks from its jaws. Fishing deep water in the winter is a very good way to catch a lunker bass.

The article tries to find out as to why largemouth bass, and not catfish, are the most popular freshwater game fish in Texas. Catfish are primarily nocturnal and spend daylight hours in depths where large, bad things that historically eat people lurk. Humans are naturally suspicious of animals living in such environments. The whiskers are also a problem. A popular myth is that catfish barbels are a defensive weapon full of stinging cells like a jellyfish. To be fair, catfish provide a significant though not thrilling battle when hooked. True to their nature, they do not leap out of the water like largemouth bass, but stubbornly try to escape by returning to the depths and safety under some form of obstruction.