Largemouth bass are the most popular game fish in America for one key reason: Accessibility. No matter where you live, there’s a strong possibility there are largemouths close by. Furthermore, you don ...

Though fishing for bass from a boat has become somewhat the norm now, many largemouth and even smallies (smallmouth bass) can fall to shore-side anglers using those bassin’ tactics honed on the water.

One of the most recognizable aquatic structures to hold largemouth bass is undoubtedly the lily pad. Offering up shade and a cooler water environment, defined and hidden ambush points for picking off ...

Learn how to read water, analyze bass behavior, and uncover high-confidence spots that consistently hold big bass year after year. Honestly, I’m not a big secret hot spots kind of fisherman, but ...

This week Ivo and Antonio are boatless as they are fishing from shore using the Python Darter casting spoons to catch largemouth bass. They share with you loads of great shore-casting, spoon-casting ...

The bass spawn is one of the best times of the year to catch your personal best largemouth or smallmouth. As water temperatures warm across the country, bass begin to gorge on food in preparation for ...

New York state’s 2025 regular bass season opens tomorrow, June 15 and runs through Nov. 30. There’s also a catch-and-release season from Dec. 1 through June 14. Smallmouth and largemouth ...

Every topwater strike makes bass fishing more fun. But there’s something about topwater frog fishing—watching that almost comical-looking bait hop and sputter and then get suddenly obliterated—that ...

LAKE OF THE WOODS, Minn. – The 3½-pound smallmouth bass smacked a tube jig on his very first cast, and during one stretch on this picture-perfect September day, it looked as if Ben Barrus might just ...

Wisconsin angler Vairin Meesouk was casting from shore on Madison’s Lake Mendota the morning of April 22 when he hooked a heavy panfish. Soon he had a good-size striped fish on the bank. “He’d already ...