Anglers don’t speak in terms of how many megabytes they used to catch a fish, but they could. Technology has deeply penetrated the venerable sport of fishing. Luckily, lure manufacturers are operating ...

The spawn is over, so fish, regardless of species, are doing one thing: looking for something to eat. If you can put a bait in front of a fish in a way that looks appealing, they’ll probably eat it. A ...

How Dylan Nutt's Championship Victory Forced Berkley to Show Its Hand Dylan Nutt crossed the finish line at the Bassmaster Classic with nearly a 10-pound lead over second place. That kind of margin ...

A Ned rig is a near-nothing bait composed of a small soft-plastic lure rigged on a jig head. And yet if you had to coax a bite from a bass anytime, anywhere, a Ned rig might very well be your best bet ...

Springfield, Mo.-based fishing and hunting gear supplier Lew's Holdings Corp. reeled in a big one — the manufacturer of at least 70 percent of all soft plastic bait made in the U.S. — with its ...

Having spent ample time around dogs, horses, beef cattle, dairy herds and marathon runners, I’m not disgusted when nature forces someone or something to poop where they stand, permission and modesty ...

It was about this time of year ten years ago when a friend and I made a plan to go fishing. Walleyes would be the target. We would meet at the boat ramp. I asked if I should pick up some minnows. My ...

A generation or more ago, a new style of soft plastic bait swept the bass world, quickly gaining converts who were as tempted to try the lures as fish were to bite them. Around the time surfers ...

A caterpillar commercially bred for use as fishing bait was found to have the ability to biodegrade polyethylene, the most commonly used plastic in manufacturing shopping bags. About 80 million tons ...

Soft plastics are the backbone of bass fishing because they can be made to do almost anything: fall straight, glide, crawl, dart, or hover. They also catch fish when bass won’t commit to hard baits, ...