After my article about fly fishing for trout last week, a friend of mine gave me a call. “You can have all those finicky trout you want, but bass always hit my lures,” Bob said. “You can catch five ...

Garry Canino, of Brewerton, shows a 17- inch smallmouth bass caught at Big Bay on Oneida Lake during an outing on Aug. 15. He was using a Hula Popper at dusk. His daughter, Tracey Canino, netted it ...

Fox Harmon remembers as a youngster staring in awe whenever his father opened his old, galvanized metal tackle box. The individual slots were filled with brightly colored Dalton Specials, Snagless ...

After my last column, which featured a reader from New York reminiscing about the Arbogast Jitterbug, I’ve received several more fishing stories about peoples’ favorite lures that I’d like to run in ...

There are a lot of lakes where a true popper will scare the heck out of the bass but that's not the case on the TVA chain stretching across north Alabama, where the Pop-R and similar chugger type ...

It hit like a largemouth bass smashing a Hula Popper. I bring up Hula Popper to get rd's attention...and also because that's the way the big brown trout hit. At least, it was big by my stream ...

I remember being in the Arrowhead Golf Course parking lot in Cicero that first morning, putting my fishing poles together, stringing line through the eyelets. I loaded my tackle box onto the back of a ...

Open any fishing lure catalogue and you will see a wide selection of lures available to the bass angler today. I look at something like this and always wonder about the history and how we got to where ...

Some of the bass lures developed 80 years ago still catch more fish today than the hottest bait released last season. This is especially true now in the late summer when bass get lazy and look to the ...

Yesterday, Minnesota's second-biggest fishing season _ for bass _ opened. A half-century ago, bass fishing was a more subdued affair as anglers in simple fishing boats cast tried-and-true baits like ...

Any night is a good night for bass fishing. This is my friend Brett James of Gages Lake who is always posting pictures of nice fish he has caught. I first meet him on an assignment to do a story about ...