We're out here with the boatless angler and Lisa, using some new pre-tied rigs with fresh cut bait. This spring weather has been particularly slow. With this colder weather, it's brought about some ...

When it comes to fishing sag-bellied jumbo perch through the ice, it’s best to have a bunch of different artificial and live bait on hand. Notorious for how finicky they can be, jumbo perch can easily ...

We're out on Lake Erie trolling for walleye. We're trolling at about 2 Mph, using SP Viper Spoons, baited with nightcrawler ...

We’re not here to take sides. We’re not here to end the debate forever. We are, however, here to say that there are times when rigging with bait—either live or dead—will outfish artificial lures, even ...

When learning how to fish for bass, an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits ...

The Tokyo rig may be the hottest soft-­plastic presentation in stateside bass fishing right now, but it’s not new. Leadered punch-shot rigs have been a thing in Japan for a while. It wasn’t until VMC ...

The most successful offshore anglers never leave the dock without pitch baits. Dead or alive, those baits can turn a fair day of fishing into an unforgettable one. Those anglers always have pitch ...

Fishermen have more questions than a three-year-old-throw a fish on the dock and everyone wants to know where, when, and how. Respond by saying, “I was slow trolling,” and the result is often strange ...

Check out the top-producing bass lures used by the best anglers in the 2025 Bassmaster Elite at St. Johns River, Florida. Although the Bassmaster Elite Series fished out of Palatka, Florida just last ...

The June Bass Pro Tour (BPT) Potomac River event was a competition of reading the tides better than then everyone else, and fishing shallow water baits around cover. Vibrating jigs, Texas-rigged soft ...