Bass fishing has seen a lot of big changes in recent years, from new baits, to crazy electronic advancements. These changes have led to some of the old reliable baits our fathers and grandfathers ...

If you're like most bass anglers, you've cast jigs, flipped jigs, pitched jigs, hopped jigs, crawled jigs and even jigged jigs, but the only time you ever swam a jig was when you sprinted it back to ...

Jigs are one of the most popular and effective bass lures. The wide variety of styles—finesse jigs, football jigs, and hair jigs, to name a few—make them an extremely versatile bait. However, the ...

Most Alabama anglers are very familiar with the "swim-jig", a bulky bassing mouthful that looks somewhat live a muskrat going through the water. The lures, typically in weights from 3/8 to 3/4 ounce ...

As largemouths move off the shallow flats after the spawn, they hang around the edge of the drops, the transition zone from 4 feet and less down to about 10 feet, which happens to be the maximum depth ...

In western Sebastian County between Hartford and Hackett is a 291-acre Arkansas Game and Fish Commission lake known as Sugar Loaf. It is known for a lot of things, but good fishing isn't one of them.

If you're a bass fisherman like Greg Vinson, all it takes to convince you to master a fishing technique is catching one big bass. Vinson's first bass caught swimming a jig weighed 9 pounds, 2 ounces, ...

Learn why big bluegills rush your jig but refuse to bite—and get proven ice-fishing tips on baits, line, jigging cadence, and subtle bite detection.

Right now is arguably the best time to catch hefty crappies throughout much of North Florida, as the fish are either gearing up for spawning or are actively bedding in shallows. The trouble with ...