Spotted bass love crawfish like kids love candy. This season, if you go fishing for spots, or Kentucky bass as they’re often called, wrap your mind around that fact, and don’t let go. You can catch ...

The Hideup Coike — a strange spiny bait resembling a sea urchin — is quickly becoming one of the hottest bass lures in the country. Learn how anglers are rigging and fishing this unique bait.

As a kid, one of the best days of the year was when the Bass Pro Shops Master Catalog showed up in the mail. It was 600 pages of excitement ...

My biggest rainbow trout ever was taken on a live crayfish in the Little Lehigh during an early September morning some 30 years ago. As I recall, it went 23 inches. My wife’s biggest smallmouth bass ...

Some things haven’t changed much since Chuck Tawney first picked up a fishing rod as a child in Harford County, Md. Tawney, the president of local bass fishing club Team Outcast, says that bass still ...

If you stop and think about it, a bass lure is only a bass lure if you’re throwing it for bass. Take the same bait off the lake and chuck in the bay and suddenly it’s a redfish lure. Throw your ...

Smallmouth bass have long been a favorite quarry of mine. Smallies are gnarly fighters, equally capable of airborne acrobatics and those line-peeling runs we all crave. And in Idaho, they are found in ...

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best bet ...

Soft plastic worms should be a staple in every bass angler’s tackle box. This big smallmouth fell for a Carolina-rigged worm at Owyhee Reservoir. Jordan Rodriguez Bass fishing has always held a ...