Try the tricks the pros use to get more surface strikes.

Water clarity has a big influence on the willingness of smallmouth and largemouth bass to bite a lure.

If you fish for bass, it’s worth owning a selection of jerkbaits.

As a warm-water species, largemouth bass like it hot.

A portable sonar unit is one of the biggest purchases an ice fisherman will make.

Whether you want to tease a giant shallow-water smallmouth into having a snack or simply go out and catch any size or type of bass until your arms get sore, a small and natural plastic on a jig will deliver the goods in waterbodies with decent visibility.

The signals on my flasher are barely moving in the water column.

Go shallow during low-light periods for excellent late-summer largemouth bass action.

Ice bigger panfish with "hard candy" horizontal hard baits

Changing leaves and cool nights signal fall transition fishing for lunker largemouths.