The Crush City Freeloader and Mooch Minnow have stolen all the bass fishing headlines, and rightly so. But don’t sleep on this amazing new craw bait design, especially when you’re not scoping fish.

Lures and dead bait will fool game fish on a regular basis, but there’s no substitute for the real thing. Few species will pass up a frisky live bait: It’s an incredibly effective technique for ...

Rigging live bait the right way will pay off. George Poveromo Rigging baitfish for saltwater gamefish is like a science. Anglers fish in so many different conditions: prime ocean with features for ...

During this transitional time of year, it’s not uncommon for one day of lights-out action to be followed by a total skunking. Even traditional methods of predicting fish behavior like tracking fronts, ...

If there was one soft-plastic bait a bass angler could stock their tackle tray with, it should be a Texas- or Carolina-rig. But, which specific bait would suffice for all applications? After seeing ...

Soft plastic worms should be a staple in every bass angler’s tackle box. This big smallmouth fell for a Carolina-rigged worm at Owyhee Reservoir. Jordan Rodriguez Bass fishing has always held a ...

For a very long time, I rejected the notion that red crawfish-imitating lures would ever have a chance of catching fish. After all, of all the times I had caught crawfish by hand or by trap, never did ...