Freshwater anglers have lots of topwater options. In the bass game especially, those looking for surface eruptions can dip into practically any lure genre and find the perfect bait to call up a hog.

Before Billy Maxwell and I got married, I followed him from Virginia to Hatteras Island, North Carolina, in the spring after the Bonney brothers were kind enough to assign him a boat slip. At the time ...

If you stop and think about it, a bass lure is only a bass lure if you’re throwing it for bass. Take the same bait off the lake and chuck in the bay and suddenly it’s a redfish lure. Throw your ...

Up until the late 1990s, only Slidell-area locals knew who Dudley Vandenborre was. He was the dude who always caught such big speckled trout in Lake Pontchartrain using a soft-plastic lure he designed ...

Capt. Abie Raymond trolls skirted ballyhoo on a 7/0 J hook for a variety of species, including sailfish, dolphin and grouper. Steve Waters For the Miami Herald Just about every offshore angler in ...

On paper, this is the perfect plan to find the best big fish bait: anchor on a promising bank, drop every fancy lure and ...