Alabama native Justin Hamner won the 54th Bassmaster Classic at Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees in Oklahoma primarily using a jerkbait to catch bass around cover he had located with forward facing sonar.

Modern jerkbaits are things of beauty. They sport intricate paint jobs, come in assorted lengths and offer lifelike profiles. They look like they could jump from their package and start catching bass ...

You rarely get a love tap when you’re fishing a jerkbait. In fact, a jerkbait bite is usually more of an arm-jarring blast. These hard-plastic and wood baitfish imitators have been fooling freshwater ...

On paper, explaining how a suspending jerkbait works couldn’t be easier. On the water, getting one to truly suspend is no easy task. All that “suspending” on the packaging of jerkbaits means is that ...

Fans and anglers get to vote to decide which angler makes the Bassmaster Fan Cam, the Youngest EQ Angler, and Lipless ...

Hey Bassmaster Classic fans and cold weather bass fisherman alike! Let Mark Zona crack you up as he foreshadows a possible Classic pattern AND a unique method to trigger sluggish cold water bass.

It’s time to start talking fishing, and maybe using Lent to pray our major rivers will spare us from the looming floodwaters draining — and sure to come our way — when all that snow and ice drains ...

Check out the top-producing bass lures used by the best anglers in the 2025 Bassmaster Elite at St. Johns River, Florida. Although the Bassmaster Elite Series fished out of Palatka, Florida just last ...

"Day On The Lake" airs every Saturday at 8:00 a.m. ET on ESPN2. • Click here to read Ken Cook's blog from his final year on the Bassmaster Elite Series. The concept behind "Day On The Lake" is to put ...