Kevin VanDam’s Plan for Late-Summer Largemouth in the Northern States
It’s the tail end of summertime and many anglers living in the northern states – or those making the pilgrimage north to beat the heat – are thinking smallmouth. Bronzebacks get the bulk of the attention in places like Michigan, Wisconsin and New York, but there are plenty of largemouth (and some big ones), as […]
Deep Bream Beds are the Coral Reefs of Freshwater
Summer is upon us and the “dog days” are ahead. Unless you’re fishing for smallmouth in the northern part of the country, July and August are often considered to be the leaner times for bass fishing. The postspawn frenzy is over, the “mega-schools” have broken up, water temperatures are reaching their highest points of the […]
2 summer lures I won’t leave home without
The greatest professional bass angler of all time got his start while casting topwater lures at summertime bass as a young teenager while walking the shoreline of School Section Lake where his grandparents lived in Central Michigan. Not much has changed in 40 years for Kevin VanDam. When asked recently to choose just two lures […]