There’s a reason former Field & Stream Fishing Editor, A.J. McClane called the river smallmouth “the greatest freshwater gamefish of all.” If you’ve come under this fish’s spell in its river ...

From Heddon and Pflueger classics to the legendary Haskell Minnow, learn how to identify, value, and collect old fishing lures. Similar to oil painting, the age of the work, the artist’s name and ...

The typical summer pattern for bass fishing has begun on Lake Travis. Serious black bass anglers should start fishing at dawn and head home by 10 a.m. to avoid heat stroke and the wake boat rollers.

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DOWAGIAC, Mich. Almost every serious angler knows about the Heddon Zara Spook, one of the top-10 artificial lures of all time and still a standby after 80 years. But did you ever wonder how it got its ...

Whopper Plopper! Whopper Plopper! Whopper Plopper! Stripped in jerks, the lure said its name. I paused before repeating the sequence, a sure-fire trick to incite a bass to strike. One of the most ...