Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...

Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards ...

From Northern Florida to the Canadian Maritimes, American shad flood coastal rivers every spring. Their annual spawning run from far out in the Atlantic is historically significant: it provided a ...

Ask a serious bass angler how to catch a true trophy largemouth, and there’s a strong possibility that glide baits are going to come up. These large and jointed hard lures represent mammoth prey like ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

In an early May Bass Pro Tour tournament on the Tennessee River, Major League Fishing pro David Walker explained the importance of playing your cards right when a shad-spawn bite goes bust, switching ...

Stocking a tackle box for bass fishing may seem like a daunting task for someone who is new to the game and just beginning to assemble an arsenal. It also can get expensive pretty quick, especially if ...

For each of those racy lures that line tackle-store shelves, there are a dozen plain, bare hooks on the next aisle. Glitzy hardware adds an element of challenge for those so inclined, but nothing ...