From area lakes to the turkey woods, warmer days with more hours of sunshine have bass, crappie and wild turkeys looking forward to spring as reliably as the outdoorsmen who chase them.
In area lakes, the crappie bite is on. Though the spawn is still several weeks away, crappie are actively biting but remain in their deep water hideouts around brush tops. While area minnow sales continue to increase, the hottest item going in the crappie world remains the Bobby Garland Baby Shad, a market position that product line has now held for many years.
It presents just the tiniest amount of action. The crappie are definitely biting, but they’re still really finicky. It’s a little too early to put a jig in front of them with very much wiggle on the tail. The Bobby Garland Baby Shad is just right for that.
Catching gamefish like crappie is as much about provoking a strike without spooking the fish as it is about finding a fish in the mood for a meal. Just the right amount of provocation can be a hard note to hit. When crappie are in a quiet mood, a bait presenting too much action will turn the bite off, if not spook the fish altogether. These are the times that call for the tiniest jigs on the lightest line one can stand to fish.
The red shift
The time of year has arrived when largemouth bass generally begin favoring baits with significant amounts of red in them. Beyond its visual appeal across the spectrum of water colors, this preference likely occurs because it coordinates with predominant crawfish colors present at the same time. Whatever the reason, the time for the red shift for bass is now.
Turkey time
Along with warmer days and more sunshine come gobbling turkeys. Besides practicing calls and rounding up gear, hunters who have not tried the Hunters Haven-branded BOSS Cherry Bomb loads should definitely consider taking a box to the range to see what they can do. They may find they’ve been missing out on one of the great innovations in shotgun ammunition on the market.
The shell’s technology produces an exceptional pattern. The metal in the shot is primarily tungsten, which is much more dense than lead. The goal isn’t to be able to shoot turkeys farther away, but to be much more thorough when shooting turkeys at a normal distance. Shotguns will always present some degree of randomness in their pattern but, through the use of precision sights, optics and top-quality chokes, the random portion of a shotgun’s pattern can be rendered negligible. TSS loads are the best to be found, and a good one to find comes from BOSS Shotshells in the Hunters Haven brand.
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