Brad Wiegmann - Outdoor Writer, Photographer and Professional Fishing Guide
Brad Wiegmann is a published writer whose ariticles and stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications.
Brad has covered everything from bass tournaments, to fishing techniques, destination pieces, the bass fishing industry, and other outdoor related topics.
His passion is writing about unique, hand crafted lures and swimbaits. The majority of these lures are one-of-a-kind or in limited production.
Brad is also an accomplished angler. He could easily participate as a professional angler on the front deck of the boat, but the writer side of him prefers taking the back seat as he always looking to interview the professional angler in the front on his next article.
Besides writing, Brad has a perceptive eye for taking photographs that help readers visualize with better clarity the information that he writes about in his articles.
What’s Up Spro Fat John 60
Yo, what’s up Fat John?” Little John squeaked. “Nothin’ Little John, but I got to tell you and all your little homies; I am not just a bigger Little John!” replied Fat John. “Hey, I did; I mean you the man when it comes to square bills,” counters Little John. “Keep up those smart aleck remarks and I will give you a fat lip like me!” insisted Fat John. “Hey, you the man when it comes to shallow water cranking, really bro!” replies Little John. Can you feel the love? Well, it’s not your typical family for sure. You see it’s, SPRO’s Little John family of crankbaits. They have a tendency to be a little cranky. Who wouldn’t, I mean being run into rocks, brush, retaining walls, ledges, stumps, humps, creek channels, mussel shoals, and other hard objects tends to make a lure cranky. Read more about the SPRO Fat John 60... It’s Lure Covers or Get It Snagged
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Locating Fish Quickly with Sonar Units
Finding locating fish is one of my secrets to catching fish. Fish will concentrate in certain areas and are not found everywhere. You can hunt for them at 2-mph or you can do it Doc’s way and search for them at 20-mph. I will show you how to do it and how to make it useful. This method of locating fish pertains to all species. Basically, fish are shown as horizontal lines when the boat is stationary, arches when the boat moves slowly and as vertical lines when the boat moves fast. You can also change the way a fish appears with the chart speed, but a fish arch will also change at different speeds, no matter what you set your chart speed at. The following examples are recorded using the log chart data feature on my Lowrance LCX 38 sonar / GPS unit. Example 1 is 2 mph and 5 mph.
Read more on finding fish quickly with sonar units... Here Comes the Sun Protection with my Boonie Hat
Here comes the sun, do, do, do, do. Here comes the sun and I say, “It’s all right.” Here comes the sun and I am not worried about that big, round ball of fire. Why not? I have found the perfect protection from Mother Nature and its harmful rays. No, it’s not staying inside dodging dangerous solar ultraviolet radiation. It’s my new Boonie Hat by Glacier Outdoors that is the source of my face, ears, and top of my balding head salvation. It kicks the sun’s butt and eliminates the sun’s harmful rays while providing me with a comfortable, fashionable look. Read more about the Glacier Outdoors Boonie Hat... |
“This is the final straw; I will no longer be using crankbaits or lures with hooks anymore!” I protested loudly to my fishing partner. It was no wonder; my rods were snarled and jumbled together in a large pile. Spinning rods and reels were poking out from a huge web of baitcasting rods and reels. “Yep, I am just going to fish my crankbaits, worms, topwaters, spinnerbaits, and any other lure I got without hooks,” I reiterated to him. “Well, you would probably catch just as many fish as you do now without hooks, but you can solve your problem with one thing,” he said. “What’s that? Take up golf?” I replied. “No. Nothing that drastic,” he continued, “just use lure covers on all your lures.” “Lure covers, what’s that?” I responded. “Just look over here at my lure covers,” he went on, “they cover all my lures like shallow water or deep diving crankbaits, topwater, spinnerbaits, lipless crankbaits, swimbaits, or jerkbaits; now, do you have any questions?” “Just one, why did you bring so many rods rigged with all those lures in the boat; when you know, we always end up fishing your custom built balsa wood crankbaits over there against them ol’ Cyprus stumps?” I replied.
