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Excellent Bass Fishing Blogs

Bass fishing is a way to enjoy spending time in the outdoors out at your local lake or river. Fishing for largemouth and smallmouth bass continue to always prove to be a fun and yet challenging pursuit as there behaviors make them change quickly to the conditions at the lake for the day. This challenge is what brings most bass anglers back out to the water to try and put the puzzle together that day and catch fish. Reading up on popular techniques and methods for fishing for bass can help anyone become a better angler. The following websites have lots and lots of great articles about bass fishing from lures to use to interesting industry news to bass habitat and bass behavior. Enjoy reading through these bass fishing blogs on a day you cant get to the water, but want to at least day dream about catching the big one.

Top 25 Bass Fishing Blogs

These blogs are rated in no particular order, they all have interesting content and will make you a better angler if you browse the articles and videos that are presented inside each website that is listed here.

Bass Pundit - This blog has been around since 2004 and contains lots of personal fish catching stories.

Bass East Blog - A site claimed to be "For Angler ... By Anglers" This blog has several focused technique based articles and personal stories from tournament anglers.

Boyd Ducket Blog - This blog focuses on Boyd Ducket and the products of his sponsors which include laserlure, mercury, pure fishing, rat l trap, triton boats, and tru tungsten.

Bass Fishing Tackle Reviews - Bass Fishing Tackle Reviews has stories on baits and bass fishing equipment found in the tackle store as well as popular videos from around the web covering a variety of bass fishing topics.

Bass Fishing in Minnesota - Bass fishing in Minnesota is the topic, all topics from tournaments, locations, techniques, and lures are discussed in this Minnesota focused bass fishing website, even some information about Musky fishing.

I am a Bass Fisherman - I am a bass fisherman is proudly not the bass fishing website with a right wing angle or agenda. There is some good reviews of tackle and bass fishing products.

Tami Curtis - Check out the Tami Curtis blog to get in depth information as well as lots of videos that have great interactions with lots of bass fishing professionals and others from the fishing industry.

BassFan Dock Talk - The Bass Fan Dock Talk blog covers all kinds of bass fishing news from angler rumors, sponsor announcements, tournament details and other unique bass fishing current events / stories.

Wired2Fish - Wired 2 Fish contains product reviews, tips and techniques for fishing and stories about professional bass fisherman.

Bass Fishing Tricks - A site with several different articles pertaining bass fishing and specific product highlights.

Rich Lindgren's Bassin Blog - The Rich Lindgren's blog

Bass Zone - In the House Video Blog - In the house is a fun video blog that goes into the house and garage "personal tackle shops" of professional bass fisherman.

Rattletrap Ramblings - From the about us page My name is Hojin in Windermere, FL and you guessed it- I love throwin that trap around. This blog is about my quest to figure out how to become a pro bass angler

The Wired Angler - The wired angler is filled with superb bass fishing articles about all types of topics. The wired Angler is also dedicated to the testing and discussion of many prototype lures and is fun to look at lots of random new ideas that are being developed to catch a bass, especially with swimbaits.

Lunker Hunt - The Lunker Hunt is a blog focused on an individuals pursuit to accomplish fishing goals. The angler that is focused in the blog appears to be a fly fisherman and is pursuing his passion of bass fishing with a fly rod in hand.

Professional Angler Skeet Reese - The blog for professional bass fisherman Skeet Reese. Covering his sponsors, tournaments and special content.

Professional Angler Mike Iaconelli Video Blog - The blog for professional bass fisherman Michael Iconelli. Covering his sponsors, tournaments and special content.

Bass Feed Bass Fishing Podcast - Bass feed is exactly that it is a nicely laid out website that is serving several very relevant feeds for bass fishing from Bassmaster to FLW for tournament news and other sites for additional content that is placed in the site through those respective RSS feeds.

FLW Tips and Techniques - FLW outdoors tips and techniques are tactics discussed by active FLW anglers.

BassMaster Tips - tips and techniques are tactics discussed by active BassMaster anglers that demonstrate successful tournament winning techniques after the tournaments.

Bass Resource How To Videos - Videos that cover bass fishing in several how to videos.

Pro Bass - The Complete Bass Fishing Resource - Has lists and lists of articles and content about bass fishing.

Bass Sense - Covers general fishing news as well as tournament fishing news.

Ranger Boats News Releases - Ranger boats a premier bass fishing boat company press releases page discusses all issues that are currently going on at Ranger Boats

Bassdozer Expert Bass Fishing Articles - Saving one of the best resources for bass fishing of the entire internet. Bassdozer articles cover almost every technique, whether pattern, or potential situation an angler may encounter while on the water. Bassdozer library of content is immense and very deep and worth spending time sifting through the articles to identify the ones that can best benefit you as an angler.

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In this article I'm going to outline some of the best bass fishing lures that we as anglers have access to. These lures can be used to catch both large and smallmouth bass. As a general rule of thumb, the same fishing lures can be used for both species of bass the only difference being the size of the lure. Obviously as the name of the bass denote, when fishing for "small" mouth bass, smaller lures should be employed.

Before we discuss the types of lures, it's important to know some simple information about these fish. Both Large and smallmouth bass are part of the black bass family and the word "bass" comes from a word originally meaning perch. Both species are opportunistic eaters and voracious feeders. Bass are found throughout the world, and are a very popular game fish in the United States.

These fish can be caught in a variety of manners, and the bass fishing lures listed below are some of the best bass fishing lures available to fishermen. If one of them isn't in your tackle box/bag you probably want to add it.

Spinnerbaits - Spinnerbaits are best known for enabling bass anglers to cover a lot of water fast. These baits come in a variety of sizes and colors and are designed to imitate a bait fish. Small spinnerbaits are very effective for smallmouth bass, a fact that some fishermen tend to overlook. These bass fishing lures also have a variety of blade shapes and sizes, which can make a difference in bite rates.

The Jitterbug - The jitterbug is one of the most popular top water baits of all time, and is an extremely effective fishing lure. The key top fishing a jitterbug is to fish is slow so that it does its gurgling dance. When you are fishing over or in a weed bed, and the water is like glass, a Jitterbug is one of the best lures for large and smallmouth bass.

The KickTail Minnow - The KickTail minnow is not known top many bass anglers, but is the most realistic shad/small bait fish imitation that you will ever see. Underwater this lure looks as much like a real bait fish as any lure you will ever see. When it comes to bass fishing lures the KickTail Minnow is extremely effective. This lure is as realistic a bass lure as you'll ever find.

Plastic Worms & Grubs - Plastic worms and grubs are among the best fishing lures of all time. Plastic worms fished on a "Carolina Rig" have always been known as a great bass fishing lure. The entire plastic or rubber fishing bait market has been revolutionized by Berkley. Their Power and Gulp products are exactly like traditional plastics, except for the fact that they've been impregnated with fish catching scents. Berkley's Power and Gulp plastics will actually out fish live bait in many instances.

The lures just listed are the best fishing lures to catch both large and smallmouth bass. Are they the only fishing lures that can be used effectively? Of course not, but they are some of the more popular and effective fishing lures available to the average bass angler.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 25 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of fishing country... Montana!

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