Bull Shoals Lake: Topwater is the best pattern for bass; key on the flooded brush! The walleye are being caught on the bottom in 22-25 feet on night crawlers. Table Rock Lake: A topwater bite is early ...

March is here and in many places around the country, bass are in their prespawn phase. Of course, up here in Wisconsin we still have ice on the water, and down in Florida, bass are already on beds.

Nothing thrills like a topwater bite, and whether you're fishing during the early morning feed or prospecting a midday shade pocket, the right topwater bait often tempts the biggest fish. The question ...

Freshwater anglers have lots of topwater options. In the bass game especially, those looking for surface eruptions can dip into practically any lure genre and find the perfect bait to call up a hog.

Big-time bass fisherman Oliver Ngy explains what's going on with the resurgence of big baits for bass, and three you need.

If they’ll eat a big bait, by all means, give them a big bait and improve your odds of catching bigger fish. If you’re fishing for spotted and smallmouth bass, which have much smaller mouths than the ...

Bass don’t disappear in winter – they move. Here’s where to find them and how to catch them on a fly rod, when cold water changes everything.

Although big minnow imitating lures have been around for over a century, it seems like they really became part of big bass fishing culture in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Since then, there’s been an ...

Don’t tell my bass club mentors, my editors or my colleagues on the Board of Directors of the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame, but I’ve been cheating on my first love for five years, and I don’t intend to ...

1. In Lakeland, at Saddle Creek bluegill are biting in the pits using minnows. Black-and-blue trick worms have been working for bass. At Tenoroc on Lake B, medium shiners have been the go-to bait for ...

The expert anglers at Milliken Fishing bank fish thick grass using frogs and haul in big bass, demonstrating topwater tactics ...