Fooling pressured fish takes more than picking the right lure. It takes understanding how fish respond when they’ve been hooked, chased, bumped, and stared at all season. Heavily pressured lakes are ...

The closest thing to a guarantee of catching fish is to cast into an Ozark stream. Anglers don't usually catch one fish, but many fish from the flowing water. Normally they don't catch one kind of ...

For years, I stocked my Plano boxes with lures that over the years had become standard equipment for bass anglers. I went to the lakes with preconceived notions that for certain fish, I was going to ...

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.