Topwater baits are the most exciting way to catch largemouth and smallmouth bass. Find out why you should stock up on poppers, walking baits, ploppers, buzzbaits, and frogs for the best fishing days ...

I used to think top-water baits were a specialized fishing presentation appropriately used only under the best of conditions: a warm, calm sunrise with a few wisps of steam rising off the water. Sure, ...

Whether it's a crystal-clear glacial lake, a swift-moving river, one of the great lakes, or a desert reservoir, there is one species likely swimming in all of them - giant smallmouth. Otherwise known ...

Catching fish on top-water lures can be so exciting that some anglers would rather catch one fish on a top-water than two or three down deep. Lures that splash and dance across the surface are ...

The June Bass Pro Tour (BPT) Potomac River event was a competition of reading the tides better than then everyone else, and fishing shallow water baits around cover. Vibrating jigs, Texas-rigged soft ...

Beaver Lake. The lake level is dropping and anglers should concentrate on main lake points to catch black bass, said Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. The falling la ...