Fooling pressured fish takes more than picking the right lure. It takes understanding how fish respond when they’ve been hooked, chased, bumped, and stared at all season. Heavily pressured lakes are ...

On paper, explaining how a suspending jerkbait works couldn’t be easier. On the water, getting one to truly suspend is no easy task. All that “suspending” on the packaging of jerkbaits means is that ...

Catch bass in any pond by selecting the right lure for all possible conditions. Like any bass angler, I love tearing across a vast reservoir in a bass boat, but I probably spend twice as much time ...

When it comes to ice fishing, a hot bite for crappies under the hardwater is tough to beat. While sometimes these finicky fish need to be finessed with tiny jigs tipped with spikes, in presentations ...

Alan Bland shows a Beaver Lake crappie he caught May 2 from the Pine Creek arm on the upstream end of the reservoir. The fish ...

When fish have been hammered by pressure and won’t touch the usual offerings, you need lures that get bit even when the bite feels dead. These baits don’t rely on flash or frantic action. Instead, ...

If you stop and think about it, a bass lure is only a bass lure if you’re throwing it for bass. Take the same bait off the lake and chuck in the bay and suddenly it’s a redfish lure. Throw your ...

The closest thing to a guarantee of catching fish is to cast into an Ozark stream. Anglers don't usually catch one fish, but many fish from the flowing water. Normally they don't catch one kind of ...

Summertime is high season for surfcasters, though this enjoyable and accessible type of fishing can be practiced year-round in the state of California. Previous columns have looked at the type of ...