In Alabama, the pollen is thick on the truck, the buttercups are popping out of the ground, and the dogwoods are about to bloom—all indicators that bass should be heading onto beds soon. The same can ...

With the very early warm-up this year, some male bass are already prowling the shallows looking over the spawning locations across much of Alabama. Water temperatures in the TVA lakes are already in ...

In the winter I find bass in three phases: prespawn, spawn and postspawn. In Florida, unlike many other states, bass do not spawn at the same time. I have witnessed bass spawning as early as November ...

It’s here—the time that every bass angler waits all year for. Time to starting gearing up for, planning for, and taking full advantage of the annual bass spawn, when fish concentrate in the shallows ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

Spawning season is when bass fishing myths do the most damage. You hear hard rules repeated every spring—dates, temperatures, moon phases, and behaviors that are supposedly set in stone. The problem ...