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 ...

I love to catch bass no matter which lure I use. But there still has to be a best way, right? On my way up to a recent Northwoods bass fishing week, a friend asked if there was some specific bite I ...

Fishing a frog over the pads and slop is one of my absolute favorite ways to catch bass. The visual strikes are absolutely explosive. When the bite is on, a day of frog fishing is a great day. It’s ...

Fishing for double-digit bass with a new frog produces giant blowups. Don’t expect correct change when paying with cash, some ...

In this edition of The Starting Spot Daily Bass Fishing Headlines, the Texas ShareLunker program produces some absolute freak bass, the popping frog vs. the walking frog, and the Top 10 dramatic ...

From trolling spinners for weed walleye, to swinging streamers for big browns, to frog fishing for summer bass, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated fishing reader’s attention on Fishing on ...

When you absolutely, positively have to catch a fish, live bait is the only way to go, period. While artificial lures are variously new, improved, or otherwise hyped worldwide, the lowly worm and its ...

It is a well-known fact that bass love to prey on frogs. Frogs are quite tempting to a hungry bass because of the way that they move across the surface of the water, over matted weed beds and lily ...

New York’s bass fishing season opened across the state on Saturday, and while the vast majority of these feisty fish were caught on artificial lures, it’s a pretty good bet that very few of those ...

This story, “Getting the Bait’s a Bail,” appeared in the May 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. The morning sparkled as bright and shiny as a new dime. The river was clear and purling along, its voices ...

Here is the latest Fishing Report as provided by Texas Parks and Wildlife for Oct. 11.

Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards have pro­duced stringers of game fish for decades, and they’ll continue to produce ...