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Rigged for a Reservoir, Bass in the Rangefind

Pretty clichéd, but having the “right tools in the toolbox” applies to pretty much every outdoors endeavor. Whether it’s dry matches and an air mattress for camping or a sharp fillet knife and fish batter for a shore lunch; having the right tools for the task makes all the difference. A couple months back, I took advantage of an invite to chase an array of species on a southern reservoir – Lake Ouachita in Arkansas, to be exact. I would have the opportunity to fish for largemouth bass, Kentucky spotted bass, crappies, bluegills, walleyes, catfish, and even inland stripers. Not knowing what we’d be targeting at any given time, I loaded an array of...
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Largemouth Bass Fish Species Information

Scientific Fish Name: Micropterus salmoides
Other Fish Species Names: widemouth bass, bigmouth, black bass, bucketmouth, Florida bass, Florida largemouth, green bass, green trout, linesides, Oswego bass, southern largemouth
Regions Fished: all lower 48 states of the U.S
World Record: 25 pounds (11.3 kg)
Common Tackle:
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As the name suggests this fish has a very big mouth and its jaw extends past the eye. You can also distinguish them as the bass with the horizontal stripe on their body. Largemouth have exceeded 10 pounds in Colorado and are renowned for their aggressive predatory behavior. Casting lures and plugs during dawn and dusk hours around cattails and sunken logs will give you the best chance to land one of the lunkers.


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