One of the best things about fishing in the spring is that it's the best time to catch bass, trout, striped bass, walleyes and even crappie with fast-moving lures.

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best bet ...

There are dozens of ways to rig soft plastic baits to create various presentations for hungry bass. Many of these bass fishing rigs are situational, offering the ideal setup to target specific cover, ...

The Coike, a dense elastomer ball covered in soft spines, looks more like a sea urchin than a bass lure. Over the past year it has become one of the most talked-about baits in professional bass ...

Docks will hold fish year-round, but they’ll also empty your tackle box if you fish them sloppy. The reason guys donate lures isn’t because docks are impossible—it’s because they fish them from the ...

It had been a while since I last went fishing for redfish in Louisiana. I competed in the Redfish Cup tour for seven years, and like most of my rivals, I made the run to Cajun waters during tourneys ...

Paddling deep into the backcountry of the Everglades to catch hard-fighting snook turned into a bigger adventure than I bargained for.

Long ago, in a fly-fishing life far away, I used to lean quite heavily on the Renegade as my dry fly of choice. I learned to fly fish on streams that lacked the kind of megahatches Montana is known ...

Grab your ice-fishing tackle and dress for the weather. The extended cold snap freezing up local lakes and ponds is bringing ice fishing back for the first time in years. “Ice fishing is back this ...

The Lehigh Gap Nature Center has warned that dog treats embedded with fish hooks were discovered along the Appalachian Trail over the weekend. “We notified the Pennsylvania Game Commission, since ...