In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

Maybe the idea of summer bass fishing isn’t all that appealing to you. Maybe your thinking, Who wants to go out among all the pleasure boaters and endure 100-degree temperatures to chase around a ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

A common misconception among many bass anglers is that largemouth bass always retreat to deeper waters during the summer months. While this may be partially true, under certain conditions, some of the ...

How to Identify Largemouth Bass? The largemouth bass is a freshwater species of fish commonly found in central and eastern portions of the United States, southeastern Canada as well as northern Mexico ...

Shad spawns can pay off big, but bass pros who win big money don’t go all in on them. To catch big bass all day during a shad spawn, you gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. In an ...

For bass, the period that follows the spawn is a time of transition. The post-spawn is the time that bass slide off to less-pressured water and work on dealing with the stress of making little bass.