Summer · Field Guide
The Complete Field Guide for Serious Bass Anglers.
Get lake-specific bass techniques, a simple catch log, and a trip planner that tells you exactly what to throw and how to rig it.
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Fishing the Fall Turnover
Why the bite dies for a week every fall, how to spot it, and how to keep catching bass anyway.
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Bass 101
New to bass fishing or filling gaps? Eleven chapters on the gear, water, and fish behavior everything else on this site is built on — rods, reels, line, knots, electronics, seasonal patterns, structure, and how to read what the bass are doing.
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JPFish Crankbait Selection Tool
Tell it the depth, cover, water clarity, and temperature, and it picks the crankbait and the color to tie on — plus the spec to match with what’s already in your box.
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Three for October
A buzzbait, a shallow crank, and an underspin for shad-chasing bass. Plus the original Spook.
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How to Choose the Right Trailer
Match action, plastic volume, profile, and color to the bait, water, and conditions.
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Fish Your Strengths: Jason Christie's Power-Fishing Playbook
How the Classic champion picks what to throw and where — confidence baits, fishing fast, and why cold fronts move the bait.
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Cut Your Jig Skirt: Four Trims That Get More Bites
The standard chop, finesse cut, big thin skirt, and micro cut — plus the 45° weed guard trim.
Latest Tackle Report · September 2026
Bass Tackle Intelligence Report — September 2026
Berkley's Doom Stroller puts a hard bait where the jighead minnow used to be, Abu Garcia's VoltiQ takes on Shimano DC, Japan runs its first sonar-free JB Top50 event, and a deep JDM Watch finally lands the Imakatsu MJ Prop stateside.
The Lure Files · No. 002
The Creme Wiggle Worm
A machinist and his wife cooked the first soft plastic worm on a kitchen stove in Akron, Ohio — and every Ned, wacky, Texas, and dropshot rig you throw today descends from it.
Curiosities
A duck? A rat? A sea urchin?
What those weird animal lures actually are — and when they outfish the normal stuff.
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World Tour: Bass Tackle Beyond Japan
Molix, Fiiish, Savage Gear, and the Cheburashka rig — a scouting report on what’s coming from overseas.
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