Knowing that you need striped bass fishing gear is one thing, but figuring out where you are going to go to get it is something completely different. It is a great idea to save where you can and striped bass fishing gear is no exception. There are a few options for bass fishing gear shops that you are definitely going to want to check out more so that you can see all they have to offer and find the best deal.

Bass Fishing Depot

One of the best places that you can go to get striped bass fishing gear is the Bass Fishing Depot. It is possible to find any kind of lures, for bass or any other type of fish here. They offer tournament quality bass fishing gear and the representatives there are always willing to work with customers and make sure that they are going to get everything that they need.

They have bait that you can use anywhere and also a wide variety of fishing lines, life vests, and boating accessories plus all sorts of others. For people who really love fishing they offer a great one stop shop to help with everything needed to get going. You are sure to catch tons of bass if you are using their world famous tackle.

Tackle Warehouse

The Tackle Warehouse is another great shop if you want to get some striped bass fishing gear. They offer guaranteed low prices on various different fishing tackle and other fishing accessories that one may be interested in if they were planning to go out and go on a bass fishing adventure. The way to go, as fishermen know, is with the quality top brand names that they feature. Going with the top brand name is the way to go since you know that you can rely on it and it won’t break.

The very worst thing that could happen to you while you are out on the lake would be to have you line snap right after you hook a monster bass.

Angling Center

There is also the Angling Center, which is another of the stores out there today which millions of fishing enthusiasts from all around the globe rely on and trust in to get their striped bass fishing gear. The selection is enormous while the prices stay right making it easy to get what you need even if your budget is not very high.

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Just for a moment, put yourself in the shoes (OK, OK – fins) of a big speckled trout. You’ve been relaxing in a mud flat in the East Matagorda bay. Finally, what you’ve been waiting for comes to pass; the light starts to peek through winter cloud cover, warming the shallows where you’ve been waiting out the winter.

You start to move, cruising right along the flat until you see it – your favorite spot to feed. The patch of mud with its shell pad is a familiar landmark and you think back happily about years past when you would happily fill up on all you can eat shrimp and finger mullet. Your stomach immediately starts to grumble as you recall these feasts.

You take up your favored feeding spot right where the mud meets the shell bed, watching the water above you for signs of a meal. You spot a delicious looking six inch mullet at two o’ clock and get ready to spring into action.

Before the mullet even knows what happened, you’re drifting back to the bottom feasting on your first catch of the season.

Only a moment later you see another one; this one looks like it’s wounded. An easy catch, you chuckle to yourself as you prepare to pounce.

Your spotted body jumps back into attack mode and seals the wounded mullet’s fate. Only this time the mullet fought back.

A fierce head shake hurls the previous 6-inch mullet from your jaws; but the invisible, pulling force never ceases. You grow tired and succumb to the grip of a Boga at your lip.

“10 pounds!” is yelled by a man bundled up beneath layers of outerwear.

Two other men approach, admiringly looking you over. Is that a camera flash you see?

Finally they unhook you and pit you back in the water, exhausted but relieved to have survived the ordeal.

As you swim away, you hear a voice in the distance exclaiming “That’s a Corky Fat Boy For You.” Are they talking about you? You haven’t even started to bulk up for the year; but you resolve to look closer at your prey next time around.

If this is how a trophy trout really understood us when we talked, they’d know that in being tricked by the lure, they were making an angler’s dream a reality.

When word broke out that James Wallace broke the state’s speckled trout record, an infection had spread across the gulf coast; fishermen turned to an arsenal of Corky’s, a slow sinking soft bait, when hunting for the trout of their lifetime. Packing the size of a topwater and the wobble of a broken-back, the tempting attraction of a slow retrieved Corky in winter is just flat out effective for trophy specks.

“It got crazy when Wallace caught that fish,” states B&L Corky founder, Paul Brown. “Anglers poured into our shop and literally bought every single Corky off the shelf.” Even after so many years, this Corky craze hasn’t slowed in the Brown family’s Houston-based shop.

Port Mansfield fishing guide, Captain Mike McBride definitely knows a thing or two about Corky’s and uses a unique retrieve to fool lower coast specks.

“You work your lures a bit differently based on what part of the coast you’re on, but I try to pop the knot off while trying to keep up with the slack if at all possible,” says McBride. Contrary to the advice you’ll find in many of the fishing reports, Captain McBride doesn’t generally go with the slower than slow approach many use. He instead uses more aggressive movements which mimic the behavior of real baitfish, which as he points out is the beauty of a Corky in the first place.

Captain Jesse Arsola, a Matagorda trophy-trout guide, swears by a particular science when working Corky’s.

“When you’re dealing with trout who are in an aggressive mood they’ll bite just about anything. However, those times when you have to work at it to get them interested, that is when your technique really matters.”

“I use a counting system when I fish with a Corky. It’s actually pretty simple. I count how many seconds until the lure hits bottom, then I try switching up the time I let it sink before I take the slack out of the line. Then I just figure out what count I’m on when I get the most bites. If there’s an easier way to tell where the specks are feeding in a water column, I haven’t found it yet.”

Clear Lake tournament angler Captain John Havens prefers the Corky Devil in white, chartreuse or gold and uses a more or less standard retrieve.

“All you have to do is to make sure you keep in constant contact with the lure so you can tell when you have even the littlest nibble,” Havens says. He lifts the rod and gives it one or two twitches before letting his lure fall, the only variation this expert angler uses in his retrieve.