Soft plastic baits are great for catching smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass. These plastic worms, grubs, toads, tubes, and other styles can be fished weightless or rigged for other effective ...

Tackle store shelves are overburdened with every style and shape of soft plastic bait imaginable. And although all undoubtedly catch largemouth bass to some extent, they also can do a great job at ...

Gear up for a quick release. A small net and good pliers will help you release fish unharmed. If you want to keep bass to eat, the best tasting fish are mid-sized and caught from cold water. Bass are ...

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 ...

BEAVER LAKE -- Could be there are more black bass caught on plastic worms during spring and summer than on any other lure. These supple fish-catching worms come in every size, from little 4-inchers to ...

When the fishing turns summertime tough, bass anglers get downright wacky. Plastic worms may catch more black bass during summer than any other lure. There are all kinds of ways to rig them. One that ...

Techniques refined off the deck of a bass boat can be successfully applied off a dock or in a pond, writes Oak Duke.

It's full blown summertime tactics for putting fish in the boat. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers recommends ...

Summer time bass fishing is something everyone loves! In this video, I use my favorite lures for summer pond hopping. The Googan Baits Bandito Bug is a staple in my tackle box all year round! I also ...

July is right around the corner ('MERICA!), it's hot as all hell right now as most of the United States is about to get hit with a massive heat wave this week, and while those kind of temperatures can ...

Pennsylvania anglers share their best tips for catching smallmouth and largemouth bass during the hot summer months.

Striped bass fishing continues to be good, reports Reece Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Stripers are being caught 60 feet deep or deeper, he said. Best baits are brood minnows, shad or ...