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| January |
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Timely Features - Bass Tips From A Walleye Pro (An angling expert who knows how to make finicky fish bite has some helpful suggestions for bassers), Take Your Wife Fishing...Please (For a healthier relationship and more fun fishing, invite your wife on your next bassing trip), Mini Lakes For Maxi Bass (The nations small, state-managed fishing lakes can provide outstanding action), The Seasonal Patterns Of Bass (Part II: Midwinter Bass Locations - Here's whats happening in your part of the country this month), Bass Boats For '89 (Here's a look at the newest and best in bass rigs for the new year) Tackle & Techniques - Whole Lotta Shakin' (A deep-water technique for catching suspended bass is catching on in weedy, cover-filled waters as well), Develop Casting Savvy (You can become a consistently better angler by learning Stan Fagerstrom's casting secrets), Structure Basics (Part I: How To Fish Points - Underwater points are among the most fished but least understood types of structures), Deer Hairs Extraordinaire (Flies and bugs made of deer hair catch as many bass today as they did when they were first used), How To Fish Synthetic Salamanders (Fake lizards can be deadly on early season bass) Short Casts - The Comeback Rod, Texan "Sweeps Up" In Outdoor Adventure Drawing, New York Faces Funds Shortage The Regular Features - About This Issue, Scott On The Line, Moon Times, Mail Call, Short Casts, Bass In Action, The Way It Was, The Tacklebox, Harry 'N' Charlie, For Your Information, Trading Post, Weekend Angler, Coming Up |
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| February |
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Timely Features - The Seasonal Patterns Of Bass - Part III: Pre-Spawn Bass Locations (If the bassing year were a New York street, you're about to go shopping at Tiffany's), The Spinning Rig Revival (Advances in spinning rods and reels have enabled anglers to lighten up on tackle - and catch more bass), Fly-Rodding For Bass (Fly-Fishing is a great and surprisingly easy way to increase your enjoyment of bass fishing), Lakes Of Danbury (This country club for bass fishermen has become heaven on earth for some of its members), Structure Basics: How To Fish Brush (Whether bass are hungry or not, you can catch them out of brush), Outboards For '89 (Improvements on battery charging and engine quietness highlight outboard designs for the new year), Bassin' San Diego Style (Few bass are harder to fool than these shy San Diego giants. But these tricks may work for you), Trophy Bass On Artificials (Bud Andrews has caught more than300 bass over 10 pounds - all on artificials), Early-Season Smallmouth Tactics (Somewhere between freezing and 50 degrees, the water temperature is perfect for big bronzebacks), Great Fishing Vehicles (Like their owners, these cars and trucks have character), Going Deep With Big Boppers (Greg Hines' bottom-bouncing technique may be the easiest way to find and catch bass in deep water), Picking The Perect Spinnerbait (No single spinnerbait style can fulfill all your bass-fishing needs), Bassin' The Ottowa (One of Canada's mightiest rivers has mighty good fishing for smallmouth and largemouth bass), Diary Of A Trophy Bass Trip (It takes as much luck as skill and determination to catch a 10-pound bass) Short Cast - Suuits Filed Over Lake Okeechobee Pollution (A highly unusual legal maneuver to clean up the Big O), Hauserman's Nail (A Maryland angler invents a winter bait to beat the cold front doldrums), New Electronics (Introducing two new depth-finder series) Regular Features - About This Issue, Scott On The Line, Moon Times, Mail Call, Short Casts, The Tournament Trail, Bass In Action, Pro's Pointers, The Way It Was, Harry 'N' Charlie, The Tacklebox, Bass Boating Tips, Weekend Angler, For Your Information, Trading Post, Coming Up |
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| March |
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Timely Features - The Seasonal Patterns Of Bass - Part IV: Spawning Bass Locations (Almost anyone can catch bass during this period. That's a promise - and maybe a problem), Columbia River Bronze (Fishermen are few but smallmouths are abundant and big on this river in Washington and Oregon), Swamp Bass Basics (An untapped world of big bass waits to be discovered in America's wilderness swamp), The Bass Trackers (Scientists tracking bass by telemetry have discovered some suprising things about our favorite fish), Making Contact (Give your lures lifelike action with the venerable bump-the-stump retrieve), Exposing Secrets Of Natural Lakes (Escape the rut of fishing familiar waters by learning to find and analyze new lakes quickly), Speed Is The Key (Of all the ingredients of successful fishing, few are more critical than using the right lures at the correct speed), Structure Basics: How To Fish Grassbeds (Aquatic grass serves as a bass magnet, whether it grows shallow or deep), A Hollywood Script For Gitzits And Grubs (Cross-country competition among pro anglers is producing a trend toward subtle baits and techniques), Trolling Motors For 1989 (New trolling motors are quieter and more durable than ever), How To Sweeten Your Dock (Here's how to turn an ordinary boat dock into a bass-holding honey hole), Top Secrets For Topwaters (There's a lot more to working surface lures than simply chunkin' 'em out and reelin' 'em back), Spinnerflipping For Bass (In some situations, flipping with spinning gear is the best remedy for uncooperative bass), Banzai Bassin' (Japanese anglers are developing a yen for competitive bass fishing), Ledges And Drops: The Primary Structures (Fishing these deep-water structures needn't be complicated, if you'll follow a few basic rules), Super Floaters Catch Big Bass (Big bass go wild for weird-colored floating worms and lizards) Short Casts - Buckskin Jigs For Bass, A Victory For Public Access, Mud Lake: A Most Unusual Lake, Even Bass Need Rain Regular Features - About This Issue, Scott On The Line, Mail Call, Moon Times, Short Casts, The Tournament Trail, The Tacklebox, Harry 'N' Charlie, Bass In Action, The Way It Was, For Your Information, Trading Post, Weekend Angler, Coming Up |
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| April |
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Timely Features - The Seasonal Patterns Of Bass - Part V: Post-Spawn Bass Locations (These tips and techniques will help you catch bass following the spawning season), Fishing The Freshets (Rain runoff can bring on hot bassing. Here's how to find the choice spots), Bassin' The Hidden Half Of Docks (Catch more bass by learning this technique for fishing where the sun doesn't shine), Structure Basics: How To Fish Ledges (Perhaps the most productive of structures, ledges are universally popular with bass and bass pros), Texas' Border Bass (An oasis in arid west Texas, Lake Amistad remains a yet-to-be-discovered bass fishery), The Color Craze (If it wasn't for a few colorful accidents, we might still be fishing with white worms), Farm Ponds Through The Day (For day-long action on your favorite pond, match your lure and technique to the time of day), Central Coast Sojourn In California (You can have some of the nation's finest fishing and most beautiful scenery to yourself in the off-season), Countdown To Super Smallmouth Action (When smallmouth bass are suspended, find the depth and catch the fish with this simple method), A Surefire System For Bass (This low-key simple approach to bass fishing has proved its merit in big-bass catches), Anchor-Trolling (In certain situations, this stationary fishing technique can scour an area for bass), Power-Fishing Minnow Baits (A long-hidden secret for fishing deep-diving minnow plugs finally is revealed), Bass On The Pocomoke (Maryland's bass-filled Pocomoke resembles a displaced southern swamp), Fast-Water Bass (Current makes fishing difficult but the rewards fast water offers are worth the efforts), Float-Fishing Basics (A different world of bass fishing awaits anglers willing to make the effort to fish a stream), Guntersville's Grass Carp Controversy (Alabama anglers fear the effects an exotic fish may have on one of their favorite fisheries), Susquehanna Smallmouths (Remarkable smallmouth fishing is available in this famed Pennsylvania River), Profile: Larry Nixon (The top all-time B.A.S.S. money winner is only now hitting his stride), Oddball Crankbait Tactics (If all you're doing with a crankbait is chunking and winding, you're missing half the fun and most of the bass) Short Casts - Dogged Determination, The California Rig, The Wormizer, The Classic Revisits Virginia, Another World-Record Striper, Cuba-Bass Promoter Faces Charges Regular Features - About This Issue, Scott On The Line, Mail Call, Moon Times, Short Casts, Pro's Pointers, The Tacklebox, The Way It Was, Harry 'N' Charlie, B.A.S.S. In Action, For Your Information, Trading Post, Weekend Angler, Coming Up |
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| May |
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Timely Features - Structure Basics: How To Fish Docks And Piers (Perhaps the ultimate cover, boat docks can be counted on to hold bass year-round), Coping With The Grass Invasion (Whether he loves water weeds or hates them, the smart angler will learn to catch fish in them), Buzzbait Basics (Few baits can be more fun to fish than topwater buzzers, if you try a few of these basic tricks), Bass-Fishing Spectacles (The eyes have it better with the advent of new, advanced sunglasses), Understanding Bass And Their Environment (Scientists can't agree on the most important factors affecting the way bass feed and behave), Pro's Pointers: Joe Lee's Brushpiles Tactics (This college student/pro angler has a higher education in brushpiling-fishing strategies), The Seasonal Patterns Of Bass - Part VI: Spring Basic Patterns In The North (After a long, hard winter, it's the North's time for hot spring bassin'), When Bass Suspend (Susspended bass aren't impossible to catch in open water, but they certainly aren't easy to fool, either), The Texas Twister (Spawned in Salt-Water fishing, this novel worm rig makes fishing deep weeds a snap), The Gremlins Of Fishing Tackle (Line-twist, break-offs and other problems inherent in spinning tackle can be overcome), Florida's Overlooked Canal Fishing (Tired of long drives to big-name lakes? Try one of the easily accessible, bass-filled Florida canals), Smallmouths At Night (In summer, smallmouth fishing is more productive - and exciting - by starlight), Flutter Spoons (Here's a Great Lakes idea that should catch bass wherever you fish), Secrets For Stream Smallmouths (Small streams offer special fishing thrills, including closequarters combat with spirited smallmouths) Short Casts - Fisheries Funds To Be Protected (President George Bush refuses to violate what he calls "a sacred trust), The Trail Leads West (BASSMASTER Tournament Trail pros search for bass at two invitational tournaments to be held in Arizona during the 1989-90 season) Regular Features - About This Issue, Scott On The Line, Mail Call, Moon Times, Short Casts, Pro's Pointers, The Tournament Trail, The Tacklebox, Bass In Action, For Your Information, Trading Post, Weekend Angler, Harry 'N' Charlie, Coming Up |
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| June |
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Timely Features - Structure Basics: How To Fish Roads And Bridges (Bass use flooded roadways and bridges as highways and hangouts), Shortcuts To Big-Water Bass (Learn these pros' tricks for trimming a massive reservoir down to manageable size), Catching Bass On In-Line Spinners (These all-but-forgotten lures are making a comeback in pro anglers arsenals), Backwater Bass (Obscure, remote drainages can provide superb bass action for those who learn to pattern backwater bass), Lures That Endure (To be more consistent in bass fishing, learn the techniques bass don't get tired of), A Systematic Look At Crankbaits (It isn't easy, but it's important to restore order to your crankbait selection), The Seasonal Pattern Of Bass - Part VII: Summer Patterns In The South (Summer fishing can mean feast or famine bassing. Here's how to up the odds in your favor), Whacky Worming (A finesse-fishing technique that is deadly in thick cover), Amall-Stream Tactics For Big-Water Bass (Greg South uses his knowledge of stream fishing to pinpoint bass in reservoirs), A Super Summer River (You can learn a great deal about smallmouth bass fishing, just by knowing the Delaware River) Short Casts - A Decade For The Record Books, West Point Gets Reprieve, Fiddler Crabs For Bass, Down A River In A Dory Regular Features - About This Issue, Moon Times, Scott On The Lake, Mail Call, Short Casts, Bass In Action, Tournament Trail, Pro's Pointers, The Tacklebox, Weekend Angler, For Your Information, Trading Post, The Way It Was, Harry 'N' Charlie, Coming Up |
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| July / August |
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Timely Features - Western Worm Fishing (Try these worm-fishing tricks whenever you're confronted with a "tough-bite"), Five Ways For Hot-Weather Bass (Fishing isn't easy in the dog days, but one of these five fishing patterns may spell summertime success), Structure Basics: How To Fish Lily Pads (Although they live in different regions of the country, these two pros' pad-fishing methods are the same), Bank On River Bass (Moving water may be the best fishing spot for boatless anglers), Seasonal Patterns Of Bass - Part VIII: Summertime Patterns In The North (Midsummer brings the best and the worst of times for northern BASSers), How To Fish Crankbaits In Weedy Lakes (Alabama fishing ace Don Snider says the secret to crankbait success is just throwing and winding), From Killer Whales To Bass (After a hard day of riding a 4-ton whale, Thad Lacinak relaxes by chasing 10-lb bass), Gary Klein: B.A.S.S. Angler-Of-The-Year (Klein reigns as the BASSMASTER Tournament Trail's top pro for 1988-89), Those Deadly Do-Nothings (Tiny, Carolina-rigged worms are a mainstay weapon for pros and weekend anglers alike) Short Casts - Update On Grass Carp In Guntersville (One of America's hottest bass lakes is targeted as a proving ground for new weed-control methods), Louisiana Outlaws Bass Spearfishing (Following a four-year study, the state has terminated a special "scuba-season" on bass at Toledo Bend Reservoir) Regular Features - About This Issue, Moon Times, Scott On The Line, Mail Call, Short Casts, Bass In Action, Pro's Pointers, Tournament Trail, The Tacklebox, For Your Information, Trading Post, Weekend Angler, Harry 'N' Charlie, Coming Up |
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| September / October |
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Timely Features - Seasonal Patterns Of Bass - Part IX: Fall Patterns In The North (If your summertime luck was so bad a local "Sports Bloopers" TV crew started following you around, take heart, take note and take off the disguise. Autumn is arriving), Lures That Find Bass (Fast-working lures that can pinpoint bass schools help you get the most action in a fishing day), Tailwaters: Smallmouth Bass Factories (They aren't pretty, but certain reservoir dams are sites for awesome smallmouth action), Structure Basics: How To Fish Coves And Pockets (These small, seemingly insignificant nooks can hold significant numbers of big bass), Catch A Trophy Smallmouth (Catching giant bronzebacks takes much more than luck), The Great Lakes: America's Biggest Bassin' Resource (These inland seas each offer hot spots harboring big largemouth and smallmouth bass), Heavy Metal For Bass (Metal lures are the hardest baits to make, and they're among the most difficult for bass to turn down), Shuffield Wins Second Pro-Am (Arkansas pro Ron Shuffield earns $60,000 in high-water tournament on Texas' Sam Rayburn) Short Casts - President Bush Declares Support For Sportfishing, B.A.S.S. Founder Honored, Corps Facilities Closing, San Carlos Fish Kill Averted, The Creepy Crawler Craze Regular Features - Scott On The Line, About This Issue, Moon Times, Mail Call, Short Casts, Pro's Pointers, Bass Boating Tips, The Way It Was, Tournament Trail, The Tacklebox, Harry 'N' Charlie, B.A.S.S. In Action, For Your Information, Trading Post, Weekend Angler, Coming Up |
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| November |
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Timely Features - Can The Heavens Help Us? (Bassmaster introduces a new fish activity calendar this month. Here's how it works), WBA Founder Sentenced To 30 Years (J. R. Donovan still faces charges in a treasure-hunting scheme), Structure Basics: How To Fish Creek Channels (Creek channels play a vital role in a bass' existence. Knowing how to fish this structure will pay big dividends), Bass Against The Wall (For quick-limits and almost non-stop action, Jerry Rhyne recommends fishing concrete seawalls), Hank Parker Wins Classic XIX (A tremendous last-day rally nets 1979 champion Hank Parker his second classic victory), Classic Standings (Here's how the 41 qualifiers for the 1989 Classic finished on the James River in Virginia), Dissecting The Top Classic Patterns (The top five anglers in Classic XIX found enterprising and productive ways of fishing the tides), All Roads Lead To Eufanula (Lake Eufanula on the border between Georgia and Alabama continues to be a meca for bass fishermen), Fish Up A Storm With Prop Baits (For explosive bass action learn the proper prop-bait techniques), Seasonal Patterns Of Bass - Part X: Autumn In Dixieland (In the South, it is difficult for bass and anglers to predict when summer ends and fall begins), 1990 Bait & Tackle Preview (Here's a look at the newest in rods, reels and lures for the upcoming bass-fishing season), New Rods For 1990, New Reels For 1990, New Lures For 1990, Manufacturers' Addresses Regular Features - About This Issue, Scott On The Line, Mail Call, Astro-Tables, Short Casts, Pro's Pointers, The Way It Was, The Tacklebox, Harry 'N' Charlie, B.A.S.S. In Action, For Your Information, Trading Post, Weekend Angler, Coming Up |
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| December |
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Timely Features - Structure Basics: How To Fish River Channels (In most reservoirs, the old river channel is where the best action can be found), Ways To Crack Tough Lakes (Any lake can be stingy some of the time. Here's how to catch fish in lakes that are always difficult), How To Fish The Pig (Innovation pays when you fish with pork balls. Try these tricks for fooling lunker bass), Toxins: The Scourge Of A Nation (The spreading of toxic chemicals in America's waterways may make catch-and-release a matter of self-defense), The Last Secret Bait Of The Pros (Under the right conditions, deep-diving minnow plugs like the Spoonbill Rebel are lethal bass-catchers), A Year-Round Guide To Catching Bass (This synopsis of BASSMASTER's series on seasonal patterns of bass will help you home in on bass), Hot Tips For Ice-Water Bass (These expert bass anglers have discovered a midwinter bonanza on frozen lakes), New Fishing Accessories For 1990 (Here's a preview of the newest lines, tackleboxes, terminal tackle and other accessory items for the upcoming bass season), New Electronics For 1990 (Here's a review of the newest in depthfinders and other electronic gear), Falling Water Bassin' (Declines in lake levels can be unsettling to bass - but it doesn't have to upset your bass fishing) Short Casts - The Classic Returns To Richmond, South Carolina's Record Spot, Peacock Bass In America, Opponents Of Flint River Plant Lose Battle, Aerial Video Maps Offer An Edge Regular Features - About This Issue, Scott On The Line, Astro-Tables, Mail Call, Short Casts, Bass Boating Tips, Tournament Trail, For Your Information, Trading Post, Harry 'N' Charlie, The Way It Was, The Tacklebox, Weekend Angler, Coming Up |
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