South Carolina
South Carolina offers a perfect mix of shallow power fishing and offshore structure bites. From grass lakes like Santee Cooper to clear reservoirs like Hartwell and Murray, anglers can target both largemouth and spotted bass year-round. Whether you’re flipping cover, chasing schooling fish, or working offshore, South Carolina gives you a little bit of everything.
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Strategies Around the Spawn - Brandon Cobb
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Top 5 Pre-Spawn Bass Fishing Baits & Tips - Patrick Walters
Bassmaster Elite Series tournament bass fishing pro Patrick Walters joins The Bass University to share 2 sets of top 5's. Firstly, he shares his top 5 prespawn bass fishing tips, then his top 5 lures for fishing in the prespawn. Watch and learn as Patrick Walters breaks down the types and colors ...
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Tournament-Winning Brush Fishing - Bryan Thrift
Bryan Thrift has won over $2.5M in professional bass fishing tournaments, primarily with the FLW Tour. He has 10 FLW wins and 63 top ten tournament finishes. A lot of his success has come from fishing various types of brush from brush under docks to offshore brush on humps and flats. Not all brus...
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Prespawn Cranking for Spotted Bass - Latimer
Brian Latimer is back on Lake Hartwell to show you how to catch prespawn spotted bass with a crankbait. Hartwell has a mix of bass, this video will focus on locating and targeting spotted bass while cranking before the spawn.
0:25 Targeting spotted bass with a crankbait
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Solving Herring Fisheries - Bryan New
Join Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Bryan New and Bass University for an in-depth seminar on mastering blueback herring fisheries. As a South Carolina native, Bryan New has spent years honing his skills and strategies for these unique fisheries, developing a reputation as an innovative and adaptable...
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Frittside Winter & Prespawn Cranking - Shane Lehew
The Berkley Frittside Crankbait is an awesome flat side crankbait, that fishes like balsa, but is easier to cast. You can fish it all year, but there are a couple of times when it really shines. In this on the water bass fishing class, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Shane Lehew shares when, where & ...
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Clear Water Prespawn for Your Personal Best - Shane LeHew
Shane LeHew, from Shane's Baits, is a Bassmaster Elite Series tournament angler and 2021 Bassmaster Classic qualifier who experienced a lot of early tournament success fishing clearer water impoundments, like Lake Norman in North Carolina and Lake Hartwell in South Carolina. In this bass fishing ...
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Shaky Heads Do Catch Big Fish, If You... - Bryan Thrift
There's a big misconception within a large portion of the bass fishing community that shaky heads only catch small fish. While they will certainly catch small fish, Bryan Thrift is here to tell you that they catch big, tournament-winning fish as well. In this on the water bass fishing instruction...
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Blade Baits & Tiny Baitfish - Bryan Thrift
Recently Bass University was on Lake Norman with local angler Bryan Thrift. In this on the water bass fishing class, Bryan shares an awesome technique for hard-to-catch bass that are feeding on small forage. This is a situational/seasonal tip, but when it happens (and it often does in the fall), ...
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Bass Fishing Bridge Pilings - Brandon Cobb
Brandon Cobb is back on the water with The Bass University to talk about a great spot to save a difficult day of fishing. Bridge pilings almost always hold fish. There are times when the conditions are better and bass are holding tighter to the poles, but you can almost always catch some bass aro...
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Alabama Rig Versatility - Shane Lehew
Shane Lehew of Shane's Baits is a Bassmaster Elite Series tournament angler and an avid Alabama rig fisherman. His style of fishing Alabama rigs (also known as umbrella rigs) doesn't involve big hollow-belly swimbaits. Watch as Shane talks about the fish-catching power of 5 and 9 bait rigs with 3...
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Bryan Thrift's Top 5 Topwater Bass Fishing Techniques
In this bass fishing seminar, presented by Damiki pro Bryan Thrift this past winter in Anderson, SC, Bryan talks about various types of topwater baits and how to fish them for exciting bass bites. Thrift is one of the most successful tournament bass fishing anglers on tour. With well over a decad...