The Coike urchin bait trend proves what fly anglers have known for years: subtle movement beats exact imitation. Here are ...

A lure with a funny name is serious business when it comes to catching black bass as winter marches toward spring. Jerk baits, sometimes called stick baits, are long, minnow-shaped lures that shake, ...

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 ...

Anglers can close their eyes, reach into a tackle box and any lure pulled out may catch black bass. Reese Jones at Hook Line and Sinker in Rogers said Alabama rigs, jerk baits, spinner baits, crank ...

If you grew up fishing and happen to be a child of the ’90s, you likely owned a Banjo Minnow kit, because the infomercial pushing them ran on every channel that aired fishing shows—and even some that ...

OK, they're just little crappie minnows, we get that. But to smallmouths and spots in winter the "tuffy" minnow, AKA Missouri minnows sold by the millions to crappie anglers all over the nation, look ...

Spring is an excellent season to intercept bass in warming shallows. The fish are moving to spawn, feeding aggressively within reach of boaters, bank walkers and waders. And, regardless of approach, ...

The first time Terry Knight went to a dock on California's Clear Lake and cast a new-to-him fishing rig that was supposed to "catch the big ones," he laughed and said "it looked like five minnows ...

When water temperatures drop below 50 degrees, bass become very lethargic. This makes targeting largemouth during the winter a little tricky. Usually, anglers slow down their presentation and downsize ...

Florida largemouth bass are considered the perfect piscivorous predator. Two weeks after hatching, the bass fry begin to feed on zooplankton, the microscopic organisms that live in the water. By the ...