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
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
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
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
The Rise of Technology in Tournament Bass Fishing Ever since forward-facing sonar turned the sport of professional bass fishing up on its transom, tournament-fishing leagues have become more vigilant about the amount of technology flowing into bass tournaments. With the acceleration of Artificial Intelligence and the development of
Bass are conditioned creatures. Many times, their desire to feed is stimulated by some larger change in their environment. As an angler, if you can predict or detect that change ahead of time, you can be at the right place at the right time to take advantage of that stimulus.
The month of December is the final transition from the last of the fall season into true winter. Up until this point, water temperatures have been steadily declining from the 70s into the 60s. Now, more intense fronts of winter will squash water temperatures into the low 50s and over
Current is one of the last great secrets in bass fishing. Current is mysterious, ambiguous, and hard to quantify, yet it plays such a strong role in bass behavior, especially in power-generating reservoirs. Most reservoirs in a power-producing chain of lakes have both an outflow and an inflow
Deep Dive continues to make waves in their quest to be the best app in the fishing business by adding yet another valuable tool to their pro suite of real-time fishing conditions for lakes across the country. This time, they have effectively addressed an angler’s incessant need to