Visit your nearby bait-and-tackle store, or roam the aisles of Bass Pro Shop, and you’ll be amazed at the variety of jig heads filling the peg boards. Some plain, but most painted in every color ...

It lives in a river with a history of abuse and pollution. It swims in waters filled with hard-to-filter chemicals. Despite that discouraging environment, an expert told a riverine gathering, the male ...

There’s no indication that Shakespeare’s Juliet was into bass fishing, but her famous line: “A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet,” applies perfectly to one of the sport’s hottest and most ...

Fall is a great time to fish with wild minnows. Indigenous species of minnows trapped from local creeks, found within the same watershed being fished, are forage that gamefish are accustomed to ...

Rainy periods have created muddy conditions on the south half of the lake and that has affected fishing. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, said striped bass fishing was kicking into high gear before the ...

Anglers are putting springtime tactics to the test during the high water level, said Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Try for black bass with plastic worms, swim baits or spinner baits ...

Walleye fishing has been fantastic, Ballard's Resort near Baudette, Minn., reports. Pulling or drifting spinners and crawlers in the deep mud of Big Traverse Bay in 26 feet to 33 feet of water near ...

New Year's Day. A famous song once claimed that "nothing changes on New Year's Day." Obviously, they weren't anglers in Florida. For us, there are two significant changes on New Year's Day along ...