Catch More Bass — Bass Fishing Podcast

Fish a Ned rig with less guesswork and more bottom contact. Brian Latimer breaks down the simple setup, retrieve, and location rules that help this subtle bait catch numbers—and why most anglers make it harder than it needs to be.

This is a complete Ned rig clinic covering jigheads, plastics, weights, colors, line, leader length, hooksets, seasonal patterns, and the places where the technique works best.

What you’ll learn:
• Why simple, low-action plastics often outperform baits covered in appendages
• When to use a 1/5-ounce head and when to lighten up to 1/10 ounce

What is the best way to catch bass in the middle of summer when the lake is hot, crowded, and full of boat traffic?

In this episode of Catch More Bass, Bass Pro Jeremy Lawyer breaks down the summer bass bite most anglers miss because they quit too early, fish the wrong window, or try to grind through the worst part of the day. Jeremy has spent years fishing Lake of the Ozarks and other crowded, dock-covered lakes, and he shares how he approaches summer fishing when the heat, jet skis, wake boats, and fishing pressure make...

Most anglers can catch a few bass. The harder part is adding the one big fish that changes the day.

Justin Lucas breaks down how he uses a CullShad-style harness swimbait to create bonus big-bass opportunities without throwing a giant bait all day. This is the practical system: when the window opens, where to make the first cast, how to trigger followers, and when to put it back down before it burns you.

What you’ll learn:
• Why this bait is a “window bait,” not an all-day swimbait grind
• The best timing: 50-degree prespawn w...

Bass fishing has changed fast. Spencer Shuffield breaks down what still gets bit in 2026, why pressured bass follow more and commit less, and how to catch them whether you’re using LiveScope or putting it down and power fishing.

This is not just a forward-facing sonar episode. Spencer explains how fish have learned baits like jerkbaits, A-rigs, drop shots, jighead minnows, and Koike-style baits — and how that has changed the way he fishes ChatterBaits, jigs, spinnerbaits, grass lines, brush, and shallow targets.

What you’ll learn:
• Why bass follow baits but won’t commit like they...

We’re all guilty of defaulting to our favorite bait, even when there’s probably a better option. Justin Atkins breaks down how one of the most versatile pros in bass fishing decides when each lure actually deserves to be tied on.

This is a lure-by-lure decision tree for real fishing situations — shallow cover, grass, clear water, muddy water, current, offshore schools, forward-facing sonar, pressured fish, and more.

What you’ll learn:
• When a spinnerbait beats a ChatterBait, swim jig, or crankbait
• Why Justin always wants plastic on a spinnerbait instead of relying on a trailer...

If you’ve ever found offshore bass but couldn’t get them to bite, Mark Rose breaks down what you’re probably missing. This is a deep-cranking and ledge-fishing clinic from one of the best to ever do it — how he fires offshore schools, chooses between crankbaits and other ledge baits, and adjusts when the fish won’t commit.

What you’ll learn:
• Why a deep crankbait triggers offshore schools when slower baits won’t
• How Mark fishes a Strike King 6XD from 6–20+ feet, including long-lining
• When to use a 10XD for bigger forage, deeper fish, bluegill...

Many anglers can find offshore bass and only catch a few. Jason Lambert dominated deep-water tournaments because he knew how to catch the right fish — the bigger ones, the pressured ones, and the schools other pros couldn’t fully unlock.

In this episode, retired offshore legend Jason Lambert gives up the ledge-fishing secrets he spent years keeping quiet: where summer schools set up, why he started with big baits, how pressure moves fish, and the cast angles that kept schools biting.

What you’ll learn:
• Why Lambert started every offshore school with the biggest, nastiest...

Seeing fish on LiveScope is not the edge anymore. Drew Gill breaks down why so many anglers can see bass on the screen but still struggle to make them bite — and what the best scopers are doing differently now.

Drew walks through his first nine pro events of the season, including two wins, and pulls out the real lessons from each one: how he found the right fish, when Scope helped, when shallow fishing won, what he missed, and why the modern forward-facing sonar game keeps changing.

What you’ll learn:
• Why LiveScope success is les...

Dice baits, Coike-style baits, fuzzy baits, urchins—whatever you call them, they’re the hottest bait category in bass fishing right now. Pake South may be fishing them better than anyone, and after two record-book Bassmaster Open wins, he’s breaking down the exact details that make fish follow, commit, and fully eat.

This is a deep dive into how Pake fishes dice/urchin-style baits with LiveScope, why the right sink rate and profile matter, and how the new Berkley MaxScent Moeba was designed to solve the follow-and-nip problem.

What you’ll learn:
• Why dice/Coike...

Dean Rojas, pro bass fishing’s king of frog fishing, breaks down the system he built over decades of dialing in the technique. This is a full frog fishing masterclass: where to throw it, why anglers miss fish, when to use walking vs popping frogs, and how to choose the right setup and colors.

What you’ll learn:
• The biggest frog fishing mistakes that cost anglers bites and landed fish
• Why so many bass miss a frog — and how bait design, hooks, rod, reel, and braid fix it
• When a walking frog beats a popping frog...

The jighead minnow is still the number one LiveScope bait, but it is a lot less forgiving than it was two years ago. Bassmaster Classic champion Dylan Nutt explains why fish are more conditioned than ever, which details matter most now, and how top pros still get those fish to commit.

This episode starts with the jighead minnow, then widens out into the Berkley Lab Series minnow Dylan used in his Classic win and how he breaks down lakes in the LiveScope era. If you’re getting follows but not bites, this is the kind of detail-heavy co...

May bass fishing is wide open—and that’s exactly why so many anglers get it wrong. Bass can be shallow, deep, spawning, postspawn, chasing shad, or already sliding into early summer spots, sometimes all in the same day. In this episode, I break down the 5 best baits for May bass fishing and when each one shines so you can stop guessing and start fishing what the lake is giving you.

We cover topwater for low-light shad spawn and shallow feeders, a Texas-rig ribbon tail worm for shallow cover or deeper structure, a bladed jig around floating dock...

May through July is when bass can be shallow, deep, and everywhere in between—and that’s exactly why so many anglers waste the day. In this episode, Jordan Lee breaks down the 5 baits he trusts most to narrow it down fast, from frogging shallow cover to fishing a big worm offshore, with the exact little tweaks that can turn a good pattern into a winning one.

What you’ll learn:
• How Jordan decides whether to stay shallow or slide offshore in May, June, and July
• Why a popping frog gets the nod so often postspawn...

This might be the best swim jig trailer nobody uses. In this episode, I break down why pairing a swim jig with a big Texas-rig worm gave me a different profile, better hookup power, and more quality bites around shallow spring cover.

What you’ll learn:
• Why a big worm trailer gives a swim jig a different look than the standard trailers most anglers throw
• How this setup keeps the hookup power and weedlessness of a swim jig while fixing the missed-fish problem of a swimming worm
• Why bigger profile baits can get more attentio...

A swim jig can get a few bites almost anywhere. But if it doesn’t match the cover, depth, and how bass are positioned, you’re leaving too many fish behind. In Part 3, Tom Monsoor breaks down how to choose the right swim jig for the job so you can get more bites, fish cleaner through cover, and catch fish other anglers miss.

What you’ll learn:
• How Tom decides where to start with a swim jig on Florida lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and tidal water
• How bass position on weed edges, outside grass lines, current runs, and...

Bass Fishing Tips: A lot of anglers quit throwing good baits because the trends changed, not because the fish stopped eating them. In this episode, Stetson Blaylock breaks down the old-school lures that still matter, the exact bite windows where they shine, and why so many fishermen give up on them too early.

What you’ll learn:
• Why some “forgotten” baits still outfish newer trends in specific situations
• How Stetson used a Booyah Hard Knocker lipless crankbait at Guntersville with a slower 6.6:1 reel and 15 lb Tatsu
• When a hollow-body swimbait like the Young Money Minnow is be...

Bass Fishing Tips: Chatterbait color gets overcomplicated fast. In this episode, I break it down to the 3 color buckets I always start with so you can figure bass out faster, stop wasting time, and know when it’s worth dialing color in further.

We cover the best chatterbait colors for shad and minnow situations, natural green pumpkin and black/blue options, and high-contrast red and orange when you need fish to find the bait. I also explain my best all-around starting color, how I match trailers to each color bucket, and when blade color actually matters. If yo...

Bass fishing tips: If you’ve ever found bass, caught a few, and still knew you left fish behind, this episode is for you. Bass Fishing Hall of Famer Mark Davis breaks down the missed edge in modern bass fishing: not always finding more fish, but slowing down enough to make the fish you found actually bite.

What you’ll learn:
• Why you should fish slow only after you know fish are there
• The biggest mistake anglers make when the bite gets tough
• How slow Mark really means on a Carolina rig and Texas rig
•...

Bass Fishing Tips: Spring bass are shallow… and so is everybody else. When the obvious water gets pounded, the bite goes from “easy” to “why won’t they eat?” fast. In this episode, I break down a simple two-lane plan: find overlooked water with easier fish, or stay in the popular areas and make the key adjustments that still get bites.

What you’ll learn:
• How to use boat ramp locations on a lake map to find low-pressure sections fast
• The “turnaround point” trick on big shallow flats where most boats quit
• Using Google Earth history to spot di...

Boat batteries used to be simple. Not anymore. With LiveScope, multiple graphs, trolling motors, pumps, Power-Poles, and modern outboards, getting the right battery setup matters more than ever. In this episode, Lester Miller of MillerTech breaks down how to choose the right batteries for a modern bass boat, what actually matters in lithium performance, and where anglers still get tripped up.

We cover how much amp-hour capacity most anglers really need, why 36V battery setups have changed, whether a dedicated electronics battery is worth it for LiveScope and graphs, and why lithium can hold image clarity better...

Bass Fishing Tips: April bass fishing is predictable shallow water and heavy pressure: everyone’s around fish, but most anglers are throwing the same handful of baits. In this episode, we break down the 5 best baits for April bass fishing and the key retrieves that make them work when the spawn and post-spawn overlap and the easy stuff starts getting ignored.

You’ll learn when to press for bigger bites with a swimbait, how to fish a finesse Carolina rig in that 4–8 foot zone, the shaky head details that get pressured fish to commit, and how to cover...

It’s spring, bass are where you expect them to be, and somehow you’re still not getting bit. In this episode, Zack Birge breaks down the real problem: not every pocket has the right group of fish, and even when it does, they won’t bite the same way every day.

Fresh off his win on Whitney and Waco, Zack explains how he approaches new water, what helps him find productive areas faster, and how he changes with the fish instead of forcing yesterday’s pattern. This is a sharp, practical shallow-water clinic on finding fish faster...

Bass Fishing Tips: If you could only take one bait for the entire spring, what would it be—and why? In this episode I make the case for a swimming worm (speed worm) as the best “middle lane” spring tool: fast enough to cover water like a moving bait, but weedless and precise enough to fish thick cover like a Texas rig.

We break down when spring fish push anglers into two extremes (burn moving baits vs deadstick a Senko), why pressured bass respond to a different look, and how to fish a speed worm two ways: steady...

Bass Fishing Tips: Bass are following your jighead minnow all the way in… then peeling off. That’s not “tough fishing”—it’s usually one small mistake in angle, action, or how the bait is tracking. In this deep-dive podcast, Bassmaster Elite winner Fisher Anaya breaks down how he actually gets commitment with a jighead minnow on LiveScope, even as fish get more trained to the technique.

What you’ll learn:
• Where a jighead minnow fits in his top LiveScope bait lineup (and when he goes jerkbait or Neko)
• The best minnow conditions and why slick, bluebird da...

Bass Fishing Tips: Skip casting is the cast that separates anglers who “can” from anglers who just hope. In this episode, Tom breaks down a simple 3-fix system to skip a baitcaster clean—without blowing up your reel—and hit tight openings under docks and cover with confidence. No fluff, no magic settings: you’ll learn what actually matters first, then how to fine-tune your reel once the cast is right.

What you’ll learn:
• How to skip a baitcaster without backlash by practicing on smooth concrete or a gym floor
• The sidearm “keep it low” casting motio...

Bass Fishing Tips: Most “sight fishing” content is just how to bed fish for bass. Keith Carson’s take is bigger: if you can see a bass—on a bed, cruising, or relating to bluegill beds—there’s a real chance it’s catchable if you know what to do next.

We get specific on the details that decide whether you catch ’em or spook ’em:

How Keith judges catchable vs. time-waster fish in seconds (based on behavior)

The “turn around and bomb it” move after you spook one—and why it still works

Cruiser m...

Berkley is swinging at the top of the fluorocarbon market with GinClear—and that’s a big claim. In this episode I explain why I normally hate testing new fishing line (the downside is huge), then walk through what I saw after months of fishing Berkley GinClear fluorocarbon around docks, timber, and heavy cover.

We break down the two “lanes” most fluorocarbon lives in—easy casting/low memory vs abrasion resistance/toughness—and where GinClear actually lands on that spectrum. I also share why the handling stood out enough that I started upsizing pound test for more control and...

Bass Fishing Tips: Spring crankbait fishing shouldn’t feel random. MDJ breaks down the real separator—how to pick the right shallow crank for the situation and the trigger moves that turn followers into committed bites. If you’re getting “looks” but not getting crushed, this episode is the fix.

What you’ll learn:
• When a lipless (trap) beats a squarebill in spring—and when you should switch
• The cadence rules that trigger bites (why “just reeling it in” kills your results)
• How grass changes everything: keeping the bait clean and forcing reaction bites
• How MDJ uses sound...

Bass Fishing Tips: Fuzzy Dice, Coike, dice baits, urchins — whatever you call them, they’re getting followed hard… and missed even harder. In this episode, I break down the exact rigging setup I’m using to stop the guessing: the clean internal-weight rig that locks the hook and weight into the bait (so you don’t sling weights or tear up expensive elastomer baits), plus a simple stinger add-on that fixes short strikes without killing the action.

We’ll cover why I’m out on dangling/external-weight styles for how these baits are being fished right now, the standard n...

Bass Fishing Tips: Swim jigs should work almost anywhere—but if they aren’t, most anglers are missing a simple decision system. In Part 2, Tom Monsoor (arguably the best swim jig fisherman of all time) lays out the shortcut he’s refined over decades: three top colors, three trailer styles, and two retrieves—plus the rules that tell you which one to pick so you’re not changing everything every ten casts.

We cover:

The “core” swim jig colors Tom leans on and what each one is really for

The trailer styles that cover the wide...

Bass Fishing Tips: March bass fishing is obvious water and heavy pressure: everybody’s in the backs of pockets and spawning creeks, and the fish have seen the same baits all day. This episode breaks down my Top 5 March bass fishing baits (Texas/southern spawn timing) and—more importantly—the one key retrieve for each so you can turn “around fish” into reaction bites in crowded, pressured spring water.

We cover a squarebill crankbait bite that can produce your biggest fish early, a bladed jig worked like a jig and slow-rolled near bottom for territorial spawners, the swim jig f...

Bass Fishing Tips: Swim jig fishing for bass is are  one of the most reliable ways to get bit, especially around grass and shallow cover. But if your swim jig doesn’t run true / track straight, you’ll get fewer bites—and if the hook setup is wrong, you’ll miss or lose fish that crush it.

In this episode, Tom Monsoor (swim jig pioneer and one of the most respected swim jig minds in the sport) breaks down the two biggest “quiet killers” that make swim jigs inconsistent:

Why a swim jig doesn’t run perfectly t...

Bass fishing tips: Most spring bass advice obsesses over lures, colors, and retrieves. That stuff matters—but it’s not the main thing. The best spring bite usually comes down to WHERE bass concentrate and WHEN conditions line up to push a huge portion of the population into a small, fishable area.

In this episode, I break down three spring “loaded water” situations I hunt on any lake from late winter through the spawn: marina crash pockets, flooded fall drought weeds, and the “hot tub” pinch-point pocket that warms faster than the rest of the lake. You’ll learn what...

Bass Fishing Tips: Spring is the easiest time to waste hours fishing “good-looking water” that’s empty. In this episode, pro angler Matt Becker lays out a simple “start here” blueprint you can use on your home lake or a brand-new one—no matter what kind of water you fish.

We break it down by lake style (small waters, grass lakes, highland clear lakes, TVA/current-driven reservoirs, northern natural lakes, and more) and focus on what actually matters when you launch: the first areas to check, the first baits to tie on, and the adjustments that keep you around f...

Bass Fishing Tips: Tired of re-rigging every few casts? In this episode, I break down 10 high-value bass fishing hacks that solve the most frustrating “bait failures” on the water—soft plastics sliding down the hook, trailers getting ripped, skirts slipping, and little tackle problems that quietly cost you bites and time.

What you’ll learn:
• The O-ring trick that saves torn baits on keeper hooks and bladed jigs
• How to add a fast “keeper” to smooth-shank hooks with a simple uni-knot
• The quarter-turn trailer install that holds better on barbs/keepers
• A quick zip-tie fix to keep...

Spring Bass Fishing Tips: Spring is where most anglers struggle: wrong baits, wrong water, and too much guessing.

In this episode, pro angler John Cox breaks down his simple six-bait spring system—the exact lineup he relies on to cover the full spring progression from cold water into the first wave of spawners. We talk about how he chooses the right water fast, the bite “tells” that say you’re in the right zone, and the small execution details that turn short strikes into clean hookups.

If you want a spring plan that’s simple, repeatable...

Bass Fishing Tip: Pressured bass can make your best spots feel “one-bite-and-done,” even when you know fish are still there. In this episode, I break down the new bait that changed my mind fast: the Berkley MaxScent Flux Gill—why its flat bluegill profile gets bites on conditioned fish, and how I’m using it to outproduce my usual confidence trailers.

You’ll hear exactly how I’m rigging it on a jig and bladed jig, what makes it act different in the water (glide, subtle motion with minimal movement, and that odd wobble), plus the situations where I woul...

Bass Fishing Tips: Most anglers react to a tough day by grinding harder on the wrong variables. Brent Ehrler doesn’t. In this conversation, Brent breaks down how he keeps his approach simple, avoids getting trapped “dialing” details that don’t move the needle, and makes the bigger decision that actually changes the outcome of the day.

We get into how he uses a streamlined set of confidence tools to get bites across wildly different fisheries, how he recognizes when a plan is dying, and how he pivots without panic. If you’ve ever spent hours “almost” getting bit—or...

Bass Fishing Tips: February bass will fool you. If your bite dies right after a warm-up, you didn’t lose the fish—you missed the February Flip. In this episode, Tom Redington breaks down the 5 best baits for February bass fishing and, more importantly, where to fish them and how to adjust as bass shift from winter positioning into early prespawn movement.

You’ll get the February playbook: flipping jig around staging cover, lipless cranks for covering water in the backs, spinnerbaits for thumping through wind and stain, bladed jigs for grass and cover, and shallow cranks when t...

LiveScope / forward-facing sonar (FFS), shallow power fishing, and spring bass fishing aren’t two separate worlds anymore. In this episode, Nick LeBrun explains how he uses LiveScope as a decision tool and a feedback loop—even while he’s power fishing—to figure out what’s happening faster and stop guessing from late winter through the spawn.

Nick gets specific on the stuff that actually moves the needle: how he watches for followers on moving baits to diagnose “color vs retrieve,” why better fish often relate to something (not just roaming under bait), and a couple of small “cheat c...