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Would you think to bring a shotgun to bass fishing? Well this guy sure did, and with good reason. They give some great tips about filling your bird tags and hooking lunkers for anywhere you call home. The reason this guy wanted to bring a shotgun bass fishing was because of the cormorant bird. These 'water turkeys' frequent lakes where you can also find hungry pre-spawn bass. Although the shotgun worked well for the birds, the angler was using a Zoom 4? Lizard to lure in the pre spawn bass. The fisherman used a dragging technique to find where the...

If you’re into bass fishing or follow pro fishing, there are some derogatory comments about the sport from the "haters". Enter pro angler Fat Cat Newton rattling off in this video in response to the subject. Excerpt script from the video: To these people that think professional fishin' is not a professional sport, bless your heart. Apparently you've never been across the water runnin' about seventy-sixty miles an hour makin' that long run, when the weatherman says 'ah the wind’s gonna blow about five to ten miles an hour’ you get out there there’s thirty-four mile-an-hour gusts, you got three...

After a column Oct. 16 in which I wrote that a seemingly never-ending string of professional bass fishing tournaments on the Potomac River did nothing for the health of the bass but instead only lined the pockets of greedy out-of-town contest operators, readers' e-mails began to arrive. My decision not to help these outfits any more by publicizing their big-money events was pushed by a concern for the Potomac's sizable largemouth bass population. It has been a magnet for well-heeled tournament operators who flock to the Potomac even on the hottest days of summer, allowing bass to be kept in...