From summer into autumn, Texas' largemouth bass become vulnerable to an affliction caused by their gluttonous appetite. And this makes bass anglers happy. The malady? Frog in the throat. Well, ...

The soft-plastic lure fluttered and kicked like a struggling frog across the weed mat and into the open pocket. Then, with the abrupt swirl that never gets old, a solid bass rose in a boiling strike.

Some 50 years ago, Harry Ehlers was working in the Toto rubber boot factory in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he realized the same dip-mold process used to make the boots could also be used to make a ...

There are few things on this earth as exciting as a big bass blowing up on a frog. Any angler who has ever caught a bucketmouth on a frog knows the thrill of their bait getting crushed by an exploding ...

There's nothing dull about casting a frog around lily pads and over weed beds. A frog lure, that is. Bass anglers like to begin their fishing day bay by tying on a top water lure. Largemouth bass have ...

I have enjoyed an eventful fishing season, catching my first tarpon in the Florida Keys, and my first cobia in the Chesapeake Bay. Almost as exciting, I have discovered the joy of catching largemouth ...

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 ...

Every topwater strike makes bass fishing more fun. But there’s something about topwater frog fishing—watching that almost comical-looking bait hop and sputter and then get suddenly obliterated—that ...

At the turn of this century, the best frog lures for bass were whichever ones you could get your hands on. We had limited options for fishing heavy vegetation with anything but the most basic ...

The last throes of a brutally hot summer are upon us, and if you’ve done much pond fishing recently you know that the weeds and other plantlife that inhabit the small bodies of water are at their peak ...

I have enjoyed an eventful fishing season, catching my first tarpon in the Florida Keys, and my first cobia in the Chesapeake Bay. Almost as exciting, I have discovered the joy of catching largemouth ...