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
Alabama is one of the Southeast’s premier freshwater fishing destinations. Its lakes and reservoirs are full of largemouth bass, spotted bass, crappie, catfish, and bluegill. These waters provide anglers with productive fishing opportunities throughout the year. The state’s lakes offer diverse habitats, from shallow flats and creek channels
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
Picking a “top” list of Texas fishing lakes isn’t easy - there’s a ton of incredible water across the state, and what’s best can depend on your style, target species, and the season. That said, Texas is home to some of the best freshwater fishing in the U.
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