I've been throwing chatterbaits for largemouth and smallmouth bass for over 12 years, and I've lost more lures to submerged timber than I care to admit. When readers ask me about the best chatterbaits for bass, I usually start by asking what kind of water they fish, because a vibrating jig that crushes bass in […]

I have spent the last three spring and fall seasons testing swimbaits for bass across heavily pressured reservoirs in the Southeast, and I can tell you flat-out that a single 5-inch paddle tail saved my topwater day when nothing else would draw a strike from a pod of suspended largemouth. After running 12 different hard […]

I have spent the last three fall seasons chasing trophy striped bass on Lake Texoma, the Chesapeake Bay tributaries, and a handful of landlocked reservoirs across the Mid-Atlantic, and one lure pattern has produced more schoolie-eating action than any other in my boat: the umbrella rig. After landing over 90 stripers on multi-arm rigs and […]

When I started chasing bass with finesse gear eight years ago, the Ned rig became my cold-water obsession. After logging hundreds of hours testing mushroom head jigs across reservoirs, farm ponds, and rocky rivers, I learned one hard truth: the best ned rig heads are the difference between a slow day and a 30-fish afternoon. […]

Pink salmon, also called Humpies, are the smallest and most aggressive of the five Pacific salmon species. Every odd-numbered year, millions of these hard-biting fish flood the rivers and beaches of the Pacific Northwest, and they are hungry almost the entire time they are around. That aggression is exactly why the best pink salmon lures […]