Jerkbaits are one of the most effective lures for smallmouth bass all season long, but I’d argue they shine the brightest during the pre-spawn stage of the early season. Their ability to be worked at ...

Angler Mike McBride said crappie are in deep and shallow water. Fish for them with minnows or jigs and experiment with depth.

Water temps are slowly rising across much of the south and many states are starting to see pre-spawn activity. In Alabama and Tennessee, bass are already cruising shallow areas gorging on bait to ...

It is getting to be that time of year when just about everything short of a bare hook is going to catch bass, and even that might work. It has been an odd year with a warm February and early March ...

Bass fishing is just plain fun. But what’s the most fun way to catch them? On my way up to a recent Northwoods bass fishing week, a friend asked if there was some specific bite I hoped I would ...

Post-spawn bass require topwater lures, and the old standby bait, the Pop-R, is hard to beat. Fishing the ledge rock banks in the creeks is your best bet. You will find bass are in all stages of the ...

The spring is one of the best times to target bass across the country. Though there are certainly pockets of exciting fishing elsewhere on the calendar, the spring is when bass push shallow and become ...

The Alabama rig is one of the most controversial rigs in bass fishing. When anglers first started throwing it in tournaments, ...

On most lakes and rivers here in our area, we are entering the peak of pre-spawn activity for bass. Although bass season is now closed until mid-June, bass anglers who embrace catch-and-release can ...

For most bass anglers, and depending on your where you live, sometime between February and May usually marks the arrival of the most thrilling season in bass fishing: the prespawn. This is the prime ...

I watched the big single spin spinnerbait coming through the shallow water of the upper reaches of the Iowa farm pond. The big Colorado blade was pulsing and sending out flashes of chartreuse as the ...