To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

Jerk baits, Alabama rigs, crank baits or jig and pigs are good lure choices for black bass, said Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Work them along rock or gravel points and rocky banks.

Alan Battista’s garage manufactured Chesapeake Rig is a collection of heavy wire, glass beads, swivels, soft plastic shad bodies and bucktail jig heads. As the waters of the Chesapeake Bay cool down ...

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

Word from the water is that top-water action for black bass is getting livelier now that it's autumn. A morning of first-light fishing at Beaver Lake found me searching the tackle box for just the ...

The Norfork Lake striper fishing is hot right now. The stripers are feeding on flats in the 30 to 40-foot range around Crystal Cove and then up to Fout's. Large schools of shad are roaming the flats, ...

It’s the subtleties that can make the difference between catching no shad and potentially one worth about $20,000 this week in the Easton-Phillipsburg area. The 14th annual Bi-State Shad Fishing ...

Female walleye are packing on weight with eggs and gizzard shad as two major fishing derbies reach their final days with ...

This past weekend, I stowed the larger canoe I use for waterfowl hunting and brought back with me to my weekday apartment in Virginia my fishing canoe. In about the length of time it will take me to ...