For years, ice anglers were told they had to downsize to catch fish. Fish are cold blooded and their metabolism slows in winter, so we need to use tiny lures to catch these fickle feeders, we thought.

Targeting bass with giant glide baits continues to grow in popularity. What used to be a niche technique practiced mostly by West Coast anglers is now mainstream across the country. Traditionally, ...

From the SPRO Rat 50 to the Bucca Bull Rat, these big, loud, and downright rude baits can trigger the most vicious topwater strikes of your life. There are lots of standard lures that produce big bass ...

Ask a serious bass angler how to catch a true trophy largemouth, and there’s a strong possibility that glide baits are going to come up. These large and jointed hard lures represent mammoth prey like ...

Among serious bass anglers, there seems to be a growing camp of those obsessed with big baits—glide baits, swimbaits, umbrella rigs. And the trend seems to be headed towards even bigger baits. Bigger ...

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Fishing is full of mysteries and riddles to be solved by anglers who pull from their experiences and the multitude of truisms that are passed down from generation to generation. One of the so-called ...

FISH THIS SIZE, I’D BE A HAPPY MAN. GREG WAGNER. HEY, USE THIS LURE. STUFFED. THAT’S ALL YOU GOT TO DO. HAPPY SATURDAY TO YOU. I’M JACK KENAN, GREG WAGNER, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER WITH NEBRASKA ...

When it comes to antique fishing lures and other tackle, I’m more of an accumulator than a collector. If I see something cool for short money at a tag sale, then I’ll latch on to it. I don’t collect ...

One of the most important points to bear in mind is that most bites from perch come when the lure is paused and hovering, or sinking slowly. Traditional soft lures tend to sink, while super-stretchy ...