The essentials for living your best life.
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EWG hooks are a practical choice for bass fishing because their extra-wide gap gives soft plastics room to compress and helps turn short strikes into solid hookups. Sized and rigged correctly, they work well with Texas rigs, stick baits, creature baits, and other soft plastics in cover or open water.
Essential Concepts
EWG = extra-wide gap.
Best for soft plastics and weedless rigs.
Match hook size to bait thickness.
Sharp hooks and straight rigging matter.
Guadalupe bass are Texas’s native freshwater fish, found mostly in clear, fast central Texas rivers with gravel, rock, and steady current. Spring through early summer is the best time to fish them with light tackle, small lures, and careful attention to cover, while conservation remains essential because habitat loss and hybridization still threaten the species.
Essential Concepts
Native Texas bass; state freshwater fish.
Clear, swift rivers with rock and gravel.
Best fishing: spring to early summer.
Use light tackle, small spinners, crankbaits, flies.
Protect habitat; avoid hybridization.
Fall is one of the best times to catch largemouth bass, as cooling water pushes fish toward shallow feeding areas near cover and baitfish. In lakes like Champlain and Oneida, success depends on reading the water, matching local forage, and adjusting quickly as conditions shift.
Essential Concepts
Cool water moves bass shallow.
Fish cover near deeper water.
Match local baitfish.
Fish early and late.
Adapt fast.