Top bass sites on the web in 2009

Ohio snowbird fishing destinations in Florida

Florida Bass Fishing is a good place to begin. It sports nice maps on bass hotspots in Florida lakes, information on spawning season, it's earlier than Ohio's (November thru April with high months of February and March), and tips on slogging thru hydrilla and peppergrass.

I especially enjoy the blog Bass Online by fishers around Florida showing off their big bass catches. The site has one of the best collections of places to fish in Florida.

Orlando Florida Bass Fishing Guide Steve Boyd keeps a wonderful collection of largemouth pictures from the Kissimmee Lake Chain and Lake Toho in Central Florida.


Ohio bass sites

Number 1 on this list is All About Fishing. This is my favorite! Organized and informative. Begin by reading about bass species, then navigate on the left side bar to the state of Ohio for more specific information. Rick Seaman is the capable editor of this knowledge base.

Ohio may lead the nation in innovative bass tournaments with the Electric Bass Circuit. Organized in southwest Ohio in 2002, the rules enforce eco-friendly, green fishing. Your boat must be 14-feet or shorter and powered by an electric trolling motor. They're gaining some big sponsors like Minn Kota trolling motors.

I picked the Athens County Bassmasters site for their Fisherman's Prayer printed at the bottom of their website.


Follow the bass pros

If you follow the pro-bass tournaments, Bass Fan is for you. It is a nice clean site of people news in the world of tournament bass fishing. Of course B.A.S.S. on ESPN is a standard-bearer. You can learn from pros Chad and Denny Brauer at their website hosting Brauerbass Fishing Articles. Ultimate Bass will help you stay current on industry news.

Now is the time to think about early bass waterin' holes. Bass Fishing USA offers interesting articles on how to find early spring bass, how to effectively cover potential bass waters, how to buy a bass boat, and bass baits worth more than money. Bassin' USA links to bass movies on YouTube. Shows handfeeding largemouth bass a live bluegill bait, feeding live mice to largemouths, underwater video footage. How to Bass.com adds fresh content frequently with some unusual stuff like a video showing how to rig a lizard and an uncensored collection of jokes. The Bass Pros offer bass shows on the web.

Expanding the horizon, a nice site to visit is Western Bass.com, an organized guide to bass fishing in California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. Click on the map for a list of lakes in each state.

Field and Stream now has an unbelievably clean and organized section on bass. The pictures are large, clear and the text is easy to read on a desktop computer. BassFishin.com is similar style of site, and so is Sportskool.

Game and Fish hosts the magazine's collection of bass fishing media, and you can read tons of bass fishing articles, tips, guide on Bass Pro Shop.