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America's Best Bass Fishing Guide Book

by Steve Price (Falcon Publishing)
America's Best Bass Fishing

240pp/photos/maps
ISBN: 1560447753

Largemouth, smallmouth or stripers -bass of all varieties are the number one sport fish across the country, and in this book veteran angler and outdoor writer Steve Price points the way to the very best places to catch them. No productive body of water has escaped his scrutiny, from the vast expanses of the hallowed hydrilla-choked waters of the Deep South to the winding canyons of the giant western reservoirs. You'll find detailed information that makes getting to the productive holes quick and easy, and fishing tips that give you the edge you need once you get there. Whether it's full stringers you seek, or the trophy fish of a lifetime, there's no better place to launch your quest than here, in America's Best Bass Fishing.

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... Preview: Short Take: 45,400 acres; clear water, rocky shorelines and cliffs, gravel points, numerous tributary creeks and coves, no vegetation. With the exception of Toledo Bend Reservoir in Texas and Louisian ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Mountain Home, AR - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 43,000 acres; shallow, natural lake with milfoil, tules, boat docks, rock, one small tributary. Whenever the roll of premier California bass lakes is called, Clear Lake is usually among th ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Clearlake, CA - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 32,000 acres; rocks, gravel, some hydrilla, river current, clear water, tule banks. In the Pacific Northwest the Columbia River enjoys a reputation as one of the finest smallmouth bass fis ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Pasco, WA - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 36,558 acres; desert reservoir with both shallow and deep water, rocky points, coves, flooded timber, limited vegetation, no tributaries. Of all the things a bass fisherman would least exp ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Truth or Consequences, NM - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 59,200 acres, lower lake is open water with rocks, ledges, and deeper depths; upper lake includes more flats and river-type conditions. Each year the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conser ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Grove, OK - Fishing (About Top Trails)
... Preview: Short Take: 70,000 acres; two major river tributaries, rock and/or clay points, hydrilla. Although J. Strom Thurmond Lake has occasionally suffered through an identity crisis due to both name changes ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Augusta, GA - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: More than 60 miles of fishable water; numerous tributary creeks, abundant shallow cover, tidal influence. Perhaps nowhere else in the United States can anglers mix American history and bas ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Richmond, VA - Fishing (About Top Trails)
... Preview: Short Take: 160,000 acres; shallow, stump-filled flats, boat docks, rocky points, major creek and river tributaries, some vegetation. One of the largest man-made lakes in the United States, Kentucky ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Gilbertville, KY - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 48,900 acres; brush-lined tributaries, long, wooded points, sunken roadbeds, shallow coves. A few years ago when professional bass angler Jack Hains won the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society’ ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Clarksville, VA - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: Numerous lakes plus river/canals; basically shallow, heavy vegetation, canals lined with riprap. Few, if any, of America’s lakes and rivers have ever evoked as many mixed emotions as has c ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Kissimmee, FL - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 67,000 acres; large rocky canyons but only one major tributary; widespread hydrilla. The last thing serious fishermen would expect to see in a deep, clear-water lake is hydrilla, but at La ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Del Rio, TX - Fishing (About Top Trails)
... Preview: Short Take: 17,280 acres; shallow, flooded cypress, islands, sloughs, hydrilla, and coontail moss. Unless you’ve spent much time bass fishing in the Deep South, places like Snake Island, Cowfight Slou ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Shreveport, LA - Fishing (About Top Trails)
... Preview: Short Take: 271,000 acres; both clear and dingy water, weedy shallows, islands, rocky bluffs, open water. Some believe that if the French explorer Samuel de Champlain had stayed long enough to sample ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Burlington, VT - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 102,000 acres; three major river tributaries, flooded timber, rocky shoreline, no vegetation. Many of the country’s large impoundments are often described as “two lakes in one,” meaning wa ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Eufaula, OK - Fishing (About Top Trails)
... Preview: Short Take: 45,000 acres; channels and ledges, large tributaries, very little vegetation. Old-timers in the tackle shops around Eufaula still talk about the day 25 years ago when Tom Mann and his fish ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Georgetown, GA - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 27,690 acres; shallow hydrilla, standing timber, deep ridges. Her name was Ethel, and since November of 1986 she has ranked as one of the most famous females in Texas. Most famous among ba ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Emory, TX - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 69,100 acres; primarily shallow water filled with stumps, underwater ridges, and several types of aquatic vegetation. Although impoundment of this massive Tennessee River reservoir was com ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Guntersville, AL - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 25,000 acres with 50 additional miles of river; clear and dingy water, rocky points, shoreline vegetation, weeds, current, one tributary. Visitors come to this scenic Colorado River impoun ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Lake Havasu City, AZ - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 38,000 acres; very deep, clear water with abundant underwater structure, islands, little shoreline cover except in tributaries, no vegetation. Mickey Bruce never wanted to catch the bass, ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Gainesville, GA - Fishing
... Preview: Short Take: 15,263 acres; narrow river conditions in the upper end and more open water, pockets, flats, and tributaries in the lower end. If ever an impoundment deserved to be described as “two lakes ... From the guidebook "America's Best Bass Fishing"
Pell City, AL - Fishing

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