Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The woods were just beginning to turn the pale shades of green that mark the early stages of spring. Elm and willows were ...

It’s no secret that forward-facing sonar (FFS) is an incredibly effective tool for catching crappie. The best crappie lures and crappie rods are also not a secret. But, the FFS settings to clearly see ...

As a kid, one of the best days of the year was when the Bass Pro Shops Master Catalog showed up in the mail. It was 600 pages of excitement for a kid like me. Pages and pages of rods, reels, lures, ...

The woods were just beginning to turn the pale shades of green that mark the early stages of spring. Elm and willows were beginning to bud and redbud trees were already showing their spring colors. As ...

The goal of bearproofing your camp is to minimize odors that might attract bears, and to set up safe storage areas for food and garbage that are out of reach of bears and are away from your sleeping ...

Since the advent of modern forward-facing, real-time sonar, it’s pretty difficult to tell the difference between a bass angler and a crappie angler. Both are perched on the front of their boat, head ...

There’s no indication that Shakespeare’s Juliet was into bass fishing, but her famous line: “A rose by any other name, would smell as sweet,” applies perfectly to one of the sport’s hottest and most ...

Carolina rig fishing for bass can be effective throughout the year and at a wide range of depths, but it works best in more than 10 feet of water after bass are done spawning. A Carolina rig can be a ...

Nearly 7 inches of snow this weekend couldn’t dampen my spirits as the colors came together on my vise. Looking back through old journals and previous columns with the turn of the calendar to March ...

Here’s a selection of Slim Jim bucktail jigs from my tying desk. The heads are poured on an aluminum jig mold I made back in the early 1970s.