Fishing Heavy Cover with the Strike King Rodent

By Luke Estel

One of my favorite baits to flip and pitch into heavy cover is the Strike King Rodent. It is bulky, yet designed to get into the thick cover. Another great thing about this bait is that it is very soft, which helps the fish hold on to the bait much longer.

Wild, Wild West Point

Submitted by: Full Limit Outdoor Media

The BASS Elite Series West Point Lake Battle concluded yesterday after 4 days of low weights, lead changes and near misses. After the final weights were tallied Californian Skeet Reese came out on top. He did so by moving up from 7th place on the strength of the day’s only 15 pound bag.

The Strike King team had another tremendous showing as well. In usual fashion we had a couple guys fishing for the trophy on Sunday as well as several others that had an excellent tournament. Here is how the Strike King pros faired in La Grange, GA:

Smallmouth from Lake Amistad

By Debra Hengst, Strike King Pro Staff

I heard a knock on the door from Mr. FedEx and he held a shipment of highly prized Strike King lures that I requested. Stop #4 on the Skeeter Bass Champs Tournament Trail would find me headed West to Lake Amistad out of Del Rio, Texas on the Texas/Mexico border. The derby would be held May 4th and it was time to get busy rigging.

As with most every year, Lake Amistad opens her gates to flow down the Rio Grande into Falcon Lake which then flows south to the valley for irrigation. Because of the terrible drought that still affects West and South Texas, both lakes have suffered a tremendous draw-down since the end of March. I had not been back to Amistad since February of this year and due to time restraints, I had no practice before off limits dates, so seeing the lake when I arrived on Friday at 60 feet low was eye opening. But I must say remembering the lake back in 1998 at 58 foot low brought back some ideas of where I might want to concentrate during the tournament.

Strike King Team Grabs Second Place at Reelfoot Crappie Masters Tournament

The Strike King team of Tim Blackley and Jackie Vancleave finished in second place at the Bass Pro Shop Crappie Masters tournament held on Reelfoot Lake April 27, 2013. Jackie and Tim were slow trolling in 7 to 8 feet of water targeting large males. They were using Strike King Crappie Thunder jigs in white/chartreuse on a 1/8 oz. Strike King jig head.

Blackley and Vancleave finished with 10.31 lbs. and the winners, Kevin Jones and Tom Ash had 10.33 lbs. to barely edge out the Strike King team.

Bank Fishing for Bedding Bass

By Luke Estel

It is that time of year again when the big female bass leave their deep haunts and migrate into the shallows to spawn. In the southern lakes bass tend to spawn earlier and more often while in the northern lakes there may only be a week or two window of spawning activity.