During the summer when the water heats up and bass slow down their activity a swim jig can be effective for fish feeding on bream or shad in shallow water. (Steve Knight/Tyler Morning Telegraph) Bass ...

In western Sebastian County between Hartford and Hackett is a 291-acre Arkansas Game and Fish Commission lake known as Sugar Loaf. It is known for a lot of things, but good fishing isn't one of them.

The best chatterbait trailers make a dominant lure even better. When this category of lures — now referred to generically as “vibrating jigs” — first burst onto the scene in the mid-2000s, anglers ...