Live bait is best for catching striped bass. Jon Conklin, fishing guide, recommends using brood minnows or shad. The south half of the lake is best for wintertime stripers. Locate shad schools with ...

Today we're out fishing in the Niagara River with the Flexi Jig and jigging up big sheephead! We've opened up with the Flexi Jig baited up a shad with a thumper tail and jigging it along the bottom. I ...

FAIR. Water slightly stained; 70 degrees; 6.48 feet below pool. Fishing patterns will hold steady through the Thanksgiving weekend. Bass are moving deeper with deep diving crankbaits coming into play.

Swimbaits are great fish catchers, but it takes a lot of work to wring out their potential. A swimbait is a long, soft plastic lure with a deep belly that tapers sharply to a wide, paddle-shaped tail.

Beaver Lake: Black bass are scattered at all depths and at all areas of the lake. That can make for tough fishing, said Reece Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Fish with jig and pigs or ...

Fishing is unpredictable, reports guide Jon Conklin. "Fishing is in an up and down pattern, just like this crazy weather" he said. Try for striped bass in the Horseshoe Bend and Monte Ne areas.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Lake Erie’s huge schools of walleye are gorging themselves on gizzard shad right now, including toothy females fattening up for the spring spawning season arriving in March and April ...