Finding the right trout rod can be a giant pain. Most of the spinning rods you’ll find on the market were designed for bass fishing or trolling. These rods are usually too heavy, long, or stiff for ...

Some people live for the blow of a big largemouth creaming a swimbait. Others can’t get enough of smallmouth erupting on Spooks walking across the surface. And, sure, I love those things too ...

If there are smallmouth to be caught, this jig will get the job done. To round out our top five selections, we can’t ignore the reliable soft-plastic paddletail swimbait. Whether you’re rigging it as ...

When the water is cold, a craw trailer bounced off the bottom can be lethal, but if bass are chasing schooling bait, a swimbait trailer is the ticket. A variety of factors like water clarity ...

Last week’s trout plant will only enhance the swimbait bite at Hensley, but there has been no further word since the huge 17.1-pound largemouth caught and released last week. Brandon Grimsley of ...

White bass are starting to move and catching quite a few trolling crankbaits, rattle traps, shad or swimbaits. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows in coves and off of the channels. Report by Shon ...

White bass migrations occur throughout Ohio. The average migration varies with location (river or lake tributary) and latitude. It starts as a trickle. Catchable numbers arrive as April turns into May ...

His favorite lure is a Pure Flats The Slick with a 4/0 Owner Beast weighted swimbait hook. The versatile soft lure is heavy enough to cast a long distance, but buoyant to sink slowly. “I slow-roll the ...