In the world of bass fishing, you can try hundreds of techniques and thousands of baits. This can make it challenging to find your tried and true favorites, but it seems that most bass anglers I know ...

What Is a Soft Stickbait and Why Do Bass Love It? A soft stickbait is a cylindrical 'worm' that is commonly found in four to six inch sizes. With no fancy appendages, lips or moving parts, these ...

A wacky rig is one of the most effective techniques for enticing reluctant bass to bite. It is also one of the best finesse presentations for shallow-water fish and suspended bass close to the surface ...

In a never-ending quest to catch more and bigger fish, anglers have learned to embrace a multitude of baits and techniques. We've learned to flip and pitch, cast monstrous swimbaits and even rig a ...

You can fish with the best fishing reel, latest rod, and premium line, but none of them matter if you’re not using the right hook for the job. Those jobs, of course, range widely. The ideal hook for ...

Attaching a plastic stick bait to a hook in the most cartoonishly-simple way possible may seem like a goofy idea but, wacky or not, it’s proven tremendously effective in coaxing finicky bass to bite.

The Texas rig just might be a bass angler’s best option for early summer action. There are limitless options of bait styles you can put on your hook, and depending on the size of your bullet weight, ...

Like many hobbies, fishing can be as complicated as we make it. Most trips can be successful with just a few hooks, some worms and a handful of trusty lures. But fishing also provides plenty of ...

Imagine this scenario: you’re allowed to fish for bass every day for the rest of your life, but you can only use one lure. You have an unlimited supply, but it’s all the same bait. What would it be?

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 ...