March has arrived, and everything is on the rise. The number of daylight minutes per day is rising. The water temperature is rising. Water levels in many flood-control lakes are rising. This all leads to the aggressiveness of bass also rising. The main thing to keep in mind during March
How Bassmaster Pros Use the Deep Dive App If you have ever wondered how professional bass anglers use the Deep Dive app in competition, now you can watch the action unfold with the Deep Dive on Tour video series on YouTube. Follow along with pros Kyle Patrick, Chris Zaldain, and
Chris Zaldain caught what he calls “big-little fish” to claim a 6th-place finish at the Bassmaster Elite Series event on Lake Martin in mid-February. While “big-little fish” sounds like an oxymoron, it’s actually an interesting mindset for dealing with lakes that are known for having a big population of
If you have fished tournaments for any length of time, you might be able to relate to this scenario. During practice, you find your best fish in a main creek arm, far up the lake. The area is a long way from the official ramp, but it contains bigger fish
February, finally! The wait is over. The length of daylight is currently increasing at a rate of about 2 minutes per day. That may not sound like much, but over the course of the month, the net gain is about an hour more of daylight. And the fish know it.
February is here, which means it’s officially trap time. Call it a rattle trap, a Rat-L-Trap, a lipless crankbait, a lipless rattler, or simply a trap – these noisemakers are proven fish catchers from the early pre-spawn through the spawn, across a variety of fisheries. March used to be considered
It’s the end of January, and water temperatures across the country are bottoming out for the year. From now through April, daylight hours will increase, and inevitably, water temperatures have nowhere to go but up. Warming water is at a premium during this time of year. Finding specific zones
The Deep Dive app’s list of pro features, which helps anglers of all levels catch more fish on popular public lakes, has now grown to twelve different possible channels of information. All twelve channels are not available for every lake included on Deep Dive, but some lakes will have
There is a traditional bass fishing theorem that asserts the biggest bass are caught in the spring of the year. As the old timers used to say, springtime is when the big sows come up shallow to spawn. Indeed, the bedding season has produced many record-breaking catches in tournaments through
In the world of tournament bass fishing, the month of January is synonymous with Florida. For many years, a majority of the fishing tours and circuits held their season openers in Florida. During the late 1990s and early 2000s, professional anglers spent the month of January in the Sunshine State,
Two thousand twenty-six has arrived. It’s time to go fishing in the new year, but the pond is cold! Really cold. Maybe even solid cold. There is no denying it, January is straight up winter across much of the country. For the next month, most bass anglers will be
With the holidays upon us, Deep Dive is giving back in 2026 with the advent of the Deep Dive Contingency Program. It’s a little extra “Ho, Ho, Ho!” in the form of Deep Dive dollars for high school anglers, college anglers, and regional team trail anglers in the new