Many people feel that a jerkbait is a Winter or perhaps Winter/Spring fishing lure. Matt Arey was in Anderson, SC to teach a bass fishing class seminar on fishing jerkbaits in every season. It's important to note that you don't fish the same jerkbait, the same way, using the same colors throughou...

Snookie catches up with 2019 Bassmaster Elite Series rookie and 2020 Bassmaster Classic qualifier Matt Arey in South Carolina. Snookie asks about Matt's transition from the FLW tour, where he fished for 11 years, into BASS's Bassmaster Elite Series in 2019.

0:26 Matt Arey talks about the trans...

Matt Arey is a 12-year FLW pro that moved to the Bassmaster Elite Series in 2019 and qualified for the Bassmaster Classic in his first year on tour. Matt has a 1-2 punch approach to having big females show themselves and using another bait to get them to commit, if needed, from the immediate pres...

FLW veteran and Bassmaster Elite Series 2019 rookie Matt Arey sits down with The Bass University to talk about his near-win on Guntersville earlier in the season, and his 2 wins on the FLW tour.

0:15 Matt Arey's professional bass fishing career and how when it's your turn to win, it's your tur...

Matt Arey's "Prespawn Power Fishing The Carolinas" discusses various aspects of bass fishing North and South Carolina fisheries in the late Winter and early Spring. Arey touches on topics from water quality in Jordan and Falls compared to Lake Norman to pre-spawn strategies and bait selection for...

In this bass fishing class seminar, Bassmaste Elite Series tournament angler Matt Arey joins us to share some of his fishing tips and bait recommendations for fishing underspins all year. Arey shares his general tackle setup, then offers a breakdown of what soft plastic trailer he uses, where he ...

When the fishing gets tough, sometimes you need to offer bass a smaller option. Every angler has experienced those days when you just can’t buy a bite. One potential solution is to break out smaller baits to entice those finicky fish. In this seminar, Matt Arey discusses some of his personal favo...

Docks are one of the most commonly fished structures on any lake, but are you sure you’re fishing them correctly?
While fish can often be found around the outside edges, skipping under the dock can help pick up extra bites – and often larger fish.
In this seminar, Matt Arey explains how you ca...

Catching spawning bass when you can see them can be an easy way to pick off fish, but what about the ones you can’t see?
Matt Arey uses two traditional big fish baits – the swimbait and the glide bait – to help find spawning bass he otherwise wouldn’t know about.
“The key with those location b...

As technology improves in bass fishing, secret offshore spots are harder to keep to yourself.
“If you look at our approaches to fishing shallow water over the years one of the most important things about fishing shallow water situations ... is stealth,” says Matt Arey. “Stealth is a very, very ...

Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Matt Arey, in collaboration with Bass University, presents a seminar focused on cold water power fishing.
Many anglers tend to avoid power fishing in colder conditions, but Arey embraces this technique to entice bass to strike. In this seminar, he shares his insights ...

Join Bassmaster Elite Series Pro Matt Arey and Bass University for an in-depth seminar focused on the advanced techniques of forward-facing sonar, with a special emphasis on the Lowrance Active Target 2 system.

Matt reveals exclusive settings used by top professionals to help you achieve the cl...