Big-Bass Secrets: Catch Trophy Largemouths and Smallmouths with the experts of Outdoor Life (Outdoor Life) (Paperback)

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Product Description

Big-Bass Secrets is your guide to catching more and bigger largemouth and smallmouth bass. This book contains articles on how to catch the biggest largemouth in any lake, where to find summertime smallmouth, and why bass strike some lures but ignore others. It also contains an anglers firsthand account of catching and releasing what may have been the biggest largemouth bass of all time!

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Creative Publishing International; 1 edition (March 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 086573111X
• ISBN-13: 978-0865731110
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,636,242 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Big-Bass Secrets is a Great Resource, April 12, 2001

By	Bob P (Old Bridge, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

Bass fisherman will find this book, which is a compilation of articles from Outdoor Life magazine, well-written and informative. Covers a variety of bassing techniques, as well as, some modifications to those techniques. The authors are experienced and knowledgeable fisherman. Have added the techniques described to my approach and have caught more fish. Which is the bottomline. My only criticism, keeping this book from a 5-star rating, is the lack of rigging illustrations or diagrams.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Information, Wonderful stories, July 13, 2007

By	Bradley P. Young "Nebraska Angler" (Plattsmouth, NE USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I had stood for many minutes over several visits at our local outdoor store reading individual chapters of this book before actually buying it. I'm still not completely finished reading it, but it is a wonderful and easy read because, as the other reviewer said, all the articles were originally written for a magazine. Each chapter includes a story of when the technique described was first 'discovered' by the author, and then an explanation on why it worked.

True, they do not give rigging illustrations, but there are a lot of other illustrations on where and how to fish, how to retrieve, etc. and the text makes up for what the lack of illustrations leave out. I would recommend The Complete Guide to Freshwater Fishing (The Freshwater Angler) or something similar, for rigging illustrations.

Finally, I really like this book because it covers both largemouth and smallmouth bass techniques. That's difficult to find these days.