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Gitzits Are Not a Teenage Complexion Problem
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Tubes and to some degree creature baits were once called gitzits… I’ve often wondered how the name Gitzits came about. It’s a long ways away from tube bait, grub and creature bait stamped on the covers of the packages of today’s products. It’s one of those little life’s mysteries I’ll file away somewhere and solve it one of these days. But according to a resent survey, a Carolina rigged creature plastic is the #1 pro plastic bait, weightless worms are the pros most used top water lure and t...
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Category: Bass
Date: 5/24/2010
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Lure Choices, the Why and Where Fore's
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Why we choice the lures we do…When it comes to choosing the right lure for the right time, the right situation and the right conditions for that set of circumstances you are in at that moment on a lake you’re at, you have to take in a lot of details. Probably one of the most important details other than depth is what the bass like to eat and what is available at that time of year in that lake you’re fishing. Now in most places the shad and its smaller cousin the threadfin would be the two s...
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Category: Bass
Date: 3/8/2010
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Managing a Complex Fishery, Lake Chelan
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As a full time guide on Lake Chelan since 2000 and having had an interest and passion that will remain throughout my life, it is my desire that this fishery be viable for generations to come. Yet, because I make a practice of posting pictures of retained lakers from Lake Chelan, I have received comments from enthusiastic catch and release anglers that would indicate that I do not have the continued viability of the resource in mind. Compared against today’s conservation ethic the Lake Chelan’...
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Category: Trout
Date: 3/8/2010
Author: Anton Jones
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The Year in Review, 2009
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The Year in Review 2009 Hello and welcome to our 2009 “Year in Review”, my annual attempt to summarize everything that’s been going on at WL.com.It seems every year I could say this, but this year was BUSY! Our biggest event by far was the launch of the Premium Member section in 2009. This all new addition to WL.com was the final leg of my original vision from over ten years ago, to have a “personal online fishing diary” for anglers to use and share. The Premium Members have that and ...
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Category: General
Date: 1/4/2010
Author: Mike Carey
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Understanding Plastic Tubes
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A workshop on understanding and using plastic tube baits…Normally tube baits are not search lures, they don’t cover a lot of area in a short time and they don’t dive to different depths. We use them to get into every nook and cranny in cover a bass might hide in. They are made to dissect small parts of a stump field or a weed bed and they are especially good at catching large mouth bass that hide in really nasty weed choked shallows, under docks and on spawning flats. But they can be hooked...
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Category: Bass
Date: 1/4/2010
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Scouting the Seeps Lakes for Early Season Bass
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March is usually the month when the highly contagious "twitching disease" strikes most of us northwest bass fishermen. It's probably those first warm sunny days of spring that brings it on. As the faint heat from those first rays of sun hits our casting arm it starts twitching with an almost uncontrollable urge to get out and cast out for Ol' Bucketmouth, Ol’ Minnow Breath and those other big lethargic lily pad lunkers. Black bass, both the bucketmouth and smalljaw, can be coerced...
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Category: Bass
Date: 1/4/2010
Author: Bob Johansen
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Realistic Baits and Lures
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Choose lures and baits according to what lives in the lake you’re fishing… When it comes to choosing realistic looking baits or lures to catch a bass on, you need to know several things. Mostly you need to know what is on the bass’s menu in any given lake that you are going to fish so as to aid you in your choice of lures. This means you need to know what kind of fish inhabit the lake with the bass as well as the creatures that live on the lake bottom. Not all lakes are alike. You also need...
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Category: Bass
Date: 11/2/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Columbia Sportswear Outdoor Clothing Review
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New products come along from time to time that truly show how far technology has advanced in a particular field. This summer I got to try out several clothing products from Columbia Sportswear, and find out about some of the latest innovations in outdoor wear. We anglers in the Pacific Northwest know all too well that if you aren’t dressed right, you aren’t going to be able to fish long enough to wait for that all important bite or lunker bass that’s just under the next lily pad. So in a...
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Category: General
Date: 11/2/2009
Author: Mike Carey
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Buzz Baits and why we use them
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If you like explosive top water action, this lure is for you.Buzz baits, as we know them today, were first introduced in the mid 1970’s. The familiar shape and bent blade look hasn’t changed much since then except for minor blade modifications, skirt material and the addition of some colors. They are an easy and enjoyable lure to use and even a beginner can use one effectively. When using a buzz bait and the bass are not responding most fishermen think that the bass just aren’t responding ...
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Category: Bass
Date: 8/31/2009
Author: Bruce Middleton
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Great Places Washington Book Review
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This month I’d like to review a new Washington destinations book from Northwest Outdoors writer and radio host John Kruse. This is John’s first book and it looks like he hit a home run with this first effort.Great Places Washington isn’t your typical “go to” guide book. Rather, it is one man’s exploration of some of this state’s prime outdoor recreational areas. And it’s not a one trick pony book. John delves into many different outdoor pursuits, be it fishing, hunting, camping, hiking, bik...
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Category: General
Date: 8/31/2009
Author: Mike Carey
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