Montana Largemouth Bass

Another Bass Smackdown

by Wayne Mumford June 15, 2009

I think I’ve had about enough of dredging for Largemouth with a bottom setup on the fly rod. I sometimes have a hard time feeling the bite on spinning outfit with a Texas rig much less a sinking line with what sometimes seems like a cannon ball tied to the end of it. I’m thinking [...]

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The beatings will continue…

by Wayne Mumford June 1, 2009

until the Bass morale improves or,  Sunday morning at the Largemouth whipping post. Meanwhile my kid wallops the hell out of them with plastics. However, my resolve did not falter and I stuck with my fly rod; damn them all, each and every one of their plastic worm sucking souls! I actually had the hook [...]

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Nesting Time

by Wayne Mumford May 26, 2009

Birds are not the only nesting creatures at the moment, Largemouth Bass are also cleaning house in preparation for the annual spring spawn. I am slowly but surly learning the life cycle of the Bass. One thing I am finding out is that Bass are every bit as complex as Trout. In the local lakes [...]

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Spring Largemouth Bass

by Wayne Mumford May 16, 2009

It’s really to bad Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks got sucker punched on the Walleye gig when they already have a good Large and Smallmouth Bass population going. If you want to bring in tournament fishing dollars I think you’d have a tough time topping Bassmasters. At any rate, with rivers getting ready to start [...]

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Into the slough

by Wayne Mumford May 9, 2009

What does this ugly old dead tree laying in the river have to do with anything related to fishing? It provides a nice little home for Largemouth Bass. Just about any dock, old trees or brush on the edge of the river is a haven for fish communities. They also provide protection from the birds [...]

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More on Walleye and SB 425

by Wayne Mumford March 23, 2009

A reader from eastern Montana recently sent me some interesting information from the Montana Walleye Unlimited site about the Fort Peck Hatchery, it’s conception, who was involved; more insight on why the fishing community could get hosed on licensing fees. In my previous rants: SB 425 SB 425 moving forward WU’s version of the Fort [...]

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Montana SB 425, Fort Peck Hatchery funding bill passes

by Wayne Mumford February 23, 2009

While the details are of course vague in the bills official description, one thing is now certain; funding shortfalls for the Fort Peck Walleye Hatchery are now secured by “REVENUE IN THE GENERAL LICENSE ACCOUNT OR any FEDERAL funding available to the department”. And how do you interpret that? I think I hear the cash [...]

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More Fall Largemouth

by Wayne Mumford November 9, 2008

Truth of the matter is that we should be hunting now but the bad weather (as in snow and cold) is no where to be found yet so we took advantage of another day of ice free weather to go fishing. We took along a rifle but it was more of an after thought. While [...]

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