I have good news , and I have bad news .
By Ken Duke
PHOTO BY JESSE SCHULTZ
First , the bad news . The biggest difference between top professional bass anglers and the rest of us is very simple : time on the water . They have it , and we — most of us , anyway — do not . Worse yet , there really are no great substitutes for time on the water . We can read all we like , we can watch television programs and web videos , we can even talk to the pros at their public appearances , but unless we quit our day jobs and hit the road as bass fishing gypsies , we probably won ’ t close that gap completely .
Now , for the good news . There are plenty of things we can do to be better bass anglers . The first step is to identify some of the mistakes we ’ re making and work to correct them . To that end , we ’ ve assembled an expert panel of top anglers , asked them about the mistakes they commonly see from weekend anglers and gained their insights on how to fix them .
It ’ s a 10-step program to becoming a better bass angler .
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