Seasonal Fishing Articles
Seasonal Bass Fishing Tips.
Connecticut River Fish Migration
The Greater Northfield Watershed Association held its annual meeting on November 6th, 2011 in Northfield, Massachusetts featuring environmental journalist and author Karl Meyer’s lecture, Why No Fish??
I had the opportunity to attend the meeting and learn more on the stresses imposed upon the Connecticut River’s migratory species—namely American Shad, Blueback Herring, and the protected Shortnose Sturgeon.
The Connecticut River is hurting. With less than 2% of migrating American Shad successfully passing through the Turners Falls Dam annually, Karl Meyer refers to the 7 mile stretch of water upstream to the Northfield Mountain Reservoir as the dead zone.
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New England Late Fall Bass Fishing Tips
Late fall can prove to be one of the most difficult times of the year to wet your line in New England. Late fall is denoted by steadily dropping water temperatures, possible light ice cover, and bass coming down with a severe case of lock jaw. This is your last chance to land that lunker before the fisheries become completely iced over and in fact may be one of your best shots at landing that trophy, as larger fish are less affected by temperature. In this article I hope to bring light to some tricks and tactics that will help you optimize your stringer in tough late fall conditions. The first step, as always, is to know where the fish are this time of year...(Read Full Article)
New England Fall Bass Fishing
Every fall season thousands upon thousands of tourists flood New England states to drive around and look at leaves. I am writing this article to inform you all that there is something much more interesting you could be doing in the fall in New England... Bass fishing. Who would want to drive around and look at dying leaves when they knew they could be pulling in a very ALIVE lunker bass on the end of their line. This is New England Fall Bass Fishing.
The difficulty in landing bass in the fall is the ever fluctuating weather. In other seasons predictable weather leads to predictable fishing patterns and behavior. The fall takes this predictability out of the equation and throws us into a world of unknowns. Fortunately, being the smart anglers that we are, we can understand all of the weather possibilities that fall may throw at us, and know how to best conquer them. Thus, here are my fall bass fishing tips to you...(Read Full Article)
Early Spring Bass Fishing Tips
Well, this article isn't exclusive to New England anglers, just anyone who is too busy shoveling snow and being miserably cold to hit the water during the winter months. If you are located in the northern states and have a strong passion for fishing I hope that this article will ease some of your withdrawal pain and give you some ideas to keep you busy and prepare you for more productive spring/ summer months...(Read Full Article)
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