In the world of bass fishing, jig fishermen are surgeons and jigs their scalpels. Using the proper tool, an experienced bass angler makes the precise and penetrating presentations needed to draw strikes...View article
We’d be hard pressed to find an element of bass fishing as much ignored as sinkers. When asked to cite the critical elements of a presentation, few anglers mention weights. Apologies to Metallica,...View article
Can soft plastic baits gain an even greater following? Some of the heightened popularity of plastics can be traced to Denny Brauer’s phenomenal 1998 campaign. The all-time money winner on the BASSMASTER...View article
Rigging plastic baits is an angling art, since no single rig meets all applications. And each rig offers advantages and disadvantages in various situations. The most versatile anglers have mastered...View article
In spring, many reservoir walleyes are moving to the upper reaches of a major river feeding a lake--either to tailwater areas below the next dam upstream (if reachable by fish) or to the first set of...View article
A movie without a beginning and without an end, a shoe-in for Oscars, and something I've been waiting to see on the big screen for some 30 years since first reading The Lord of the Rings epic...View article
Up from the bottom of lakes, rivers, and streams emerge the bugs. Rising. Hatching. Swarming. Even the hardiest of angling hardcores find it difficult to coexist with seemingly endless swarms of harmless...View article
Many veteran anglers note that fishing today, particularly for bass and walleye, hasn’t been better in our lifetimes, thanks to a variety of factors. First, angler willingness to release large fish...View article
The basic principles of spring river patterns are as dependable as the sunrise. They do, however, directly relate to changes in current flow, and thus can vary from week to week, even day to day, as...View article