Big bites for small mouths
Savvy smallmouth anglers have learned from experience that the best way to catch a trophy-size brown bass is to offer it a magnum-size meal.
Catching bass in a flood
Over the years, Bassmaster Tournament Trail veterans have prided themselves on being able to compete and catch fish under virtually all types of weather conditions – including snow and ice...
How to fish long bill jerkbaits
Read how Rob Kilby was using jerkbaits nearly three decades ago to fish the clear water reservoirs of northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.
Irreplaceable pork
In the summer of 1920, long before science and clever minds brought us the first plastic worm, Alan P. Jones Sr. and Urban Schreiner, avid bass anglers from Fort Atkinson, Wis., fashioned the original pork frog.
New water on home lakes
Most guides do know every inch of their home lake, but their always trying to find something new.
Bridges: A bass superhighway
Bass will stay on bridges year-round, but a lot of fishermen dismiss them because they are so obvious.
Cranking throughout the spring
Crank it up. That is the advice of some of America's brightest fishing minds when it comes to locating and catching bass throughout the entire spring fishing season. When the...
Sorting out spots
Read how the contenders in the 2002 Citgo Bassmasters Classic had to figure out how they would fish Lay Lake. A few used tactics that mixed both largemouth and spotted bass.
Choose the right topwater
Close your eyes, reach into your tacklebox and grab a topwater bait. Chances are, it will catch bass. Maybe not right now. Maybe not even today or tomorrow – but...
Year-round jig fishing
Read how the jig-and-pig of this millennium, aside from a few cosmetic changes, is the same as that of the last — a leadhead jig with a rubber skirt, tipped with a pork or plastic trailer.
