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 ...

In case you missed it, we assembled a team of spawn reporters across the country to key us in on when and how to target bedding bass. The first step was to divide the country into six regions based on ...

The spawn is the most exciting time of year to target big bass. As water temperatures warm, largemouth, spotted, and smallmouth bass become more active and move into shallow water to start bedding.

If there is one low-tech, but productive, method of fishing from a boat for white bass, flatline trolling would get my vote for being that method. Now, trolling can be as simple as tossing a lipped ...

BRANSON, Mo. — If you like to get out and enjoy the outdoors, fishing is a great way to spend beautiful day in the Ozarks. That’s for sure. And it’s about the time of year to start game planning 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 ...

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 ...

For almost two weeks the snow and ice forced me to reminisce about how it felt to be on Lake Travis feeling a fish at the end of my line. The hot sunny weather of Feb. 24 found me on the lake finally ...