The holiday season can be great for sportsmen. You can ask for things that you really want to buy yourself but feel guilty doing. You want a new reel but can’t pull the trigger. You want new lures to fish when you go to the lake in the spring, but you don’t want to go overboard. Your rain suit leaks but you just can’t bring yourself to add one to the cart. Here are some great Christmas gift ideas for the bass angler on your list in a few different price ranges. Bass Fishing Kits - https://missilebaits.store/products/kit Bass Fishing Kits are a no brainer and fit on most budgets. Ranging from ..read more

This is the time of the year where we as anglers begin to evaluate how the previous season went and what adjustments we need to make to improve our performance. After doing that evaluation, we decide what adjustments to our gear or our approach need to happen. Now is when changes keep it new for the next competition season. I’ve got some changes coming for 2024 that I believe will help me improve again and put me competitively where I want to be. I have only one partnership change, and that is the addition of FishLung. It is a revolutionary oxygen technology I will go into at a later date, but ..read more

This blog is a video talking about the top 5 fishing tips that a veteran pro bass angler wishes he knew sooner. They might seem basic but these thoughts will help put for bass in your boat.  ..read more

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fish with John Crews on the St. John’s Sweepstakes from Missile Baits Salem, Va. – October 30, 2023 –Missile Baits is offering the opportunity to fish with John Crews on the St. John’s River in Florida in April 2024 through a sweepstakes running from October 30 to November 19, 2023. The winner will get a full day of bass fishing with a guest and John Crews after the BASS Elite Series tournament in April, travel expenses for two people, accommodations for two people, and a product assortment worth over $200. The promotion is highlighting a limited run merch d ..read more

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Missile Baits Partners with Outdoor Brand Team Salem, Va. – October 2, 2023 – Missile Baits is partnering with the Outdoor Brand Team for assistance in growing sales and the Missile brand across their territory. After 11 years, Missile Baits continues to grow in the bass fishing tackle market for soft plastics, skirted jigs, and terminal tackle. The Outdoor Brand Team has extensive expertise and experience working with select brands in the fishing industry to grow sales.  OBT will represent the Missile line up of plastics and jigs across their territory ..read more

With the new poop bait category and the new Missile Baits Bomba 3.5 being released, people are asking how to rig the bait. Check out this explanation on how to rig the new Bomba 3.5.  ..read more

Check out John Crews' Go To bait for bass.  ..read more

Asking what bait is best for catching bass might sound like a ridiculous question but there really is a solid answer. Soft plastic baits. Ok, so that is not a super specific answer but the category of baits that is the most effective for catching bass is definitely soft plastics. Real world experience can prove this but there is also scientific data that supports this argument. The researchers at Pure Fishing have done many studies on bass and what makes them bite. They found that soft plastic baits are the only category of baits that bass bite over and over and over again. They concluded that ..read more

Two trends have emerged over the past couple years on the bass fishing scene. The first one is more obvious. Forward facing sonar has changed a lot in bass fishing recently but we are going to stay away from that one here. The other is a trend of more and more anglers fishing with big baits. We all want to catch big bass and people are getting more comfortable with trying big baits to catch them.   Big baits are an entire category of baits. It includes 7” glide baits, 6 to 8” boot tail swim baits, 1 ounce spinnerbaits, oversized deep diving crankbaits like Strike King 10XD, and umbrella r ..read more

It’s great to have a dozen rods with different baits on the deck of your boat. Actually, it looks pretty cool. The thing is, though, it doesn’t always help us catch bass. That many combinations will only work if we know how and when to use them. Most of us would be better off with three or four combinations that will catch bass under a wide array of conditions, and that we really know how to use.   With that in mind I’m going to give you two setups that I think every angler should carry. I’ll let you pick one or two more from the ones I’ve described in previous blogs or from your previous ..read more