Here’s a little secret that will increase the number of fish you catch. Get your spoons custom hand painted and you will catch more fish. It doesn’t matter if you are fishing for walleye, lake trout, Atlantic salmon, sockeye, perch, Chinook, largemouth, smallmouth, white bass, hybrid bass, or stripers. Using custom hand painted spoons and blades that match the forage base will entice fish to bite in most situations or having the right custom painted pattern will result in hooking up with that trophy fish of a lifetime. Of course you can get lures individually hand painted after you purchase them, but you have to wait to get them and then send them off. That’s time consuming and not what an angler wants. One lure company that offers custom hand painted spoons and blades is Warrior Lures.

If you go fishing with crappie fishing expert and guide Todd Huckabee you can expect to be fishing with the new F2 Wooly Bee lure. Its size, shape, color pattern, and scented body make it the perfect lure to put on a jig head and put crappie in the livewell. You will catch crappie; in fact big slab crappie, but you will also learn plenty about the migration patterns, techniques, and fishing tackle used to catch crappie.

It’s the secret bait of the pros…you have heard that over and over, but when you are talking about balsa wood crankbaits it’s really true. Recently, I went out fishing with a professional angler to do a story about a new lure. Sure it was a hot lure that everyone wants, but secretly the professional angler confided in me that his stash of balsa wood crankbaits was his real treasure which catches fish year round on most reservoirs and rivers. Building and painting these true treasures demands craftsmanship as a constructional engineer in additional to being an artistic graphic designer when painting the finished balsa wood crankbaits. James Marshall, owner of On The Line Crankbaits, designs, builds, and paints custom built balsa wood crankbaits.

Every angler thinks their dream job is being a professional angler out on tour fishing competitively against the best anglers in the world, but they would be wrong. John Tanner has every anglers dream job. He is a professional fishing guide on Lake Fork reservoir in Texas. Lake Fork is renowned for its huge schools of quality and trophy size black bass. Tanner relies on his years of experience on Lake Fork; in addition to using Talon Series Big Dandy Custom Lake Fork Spoons to put clients on trophy bass.