As the ice fishing season starts to wind down and the open-water fishing season gets closer, it’s a good time to evaluate what sorts of things affect our fishing success. There are, after all, a good ...

Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust. Different ...

My dad was so proud one time. I had gone home to fish, and he had acquired a Color C Lector. The brainchild of longtime Oklahoma fisheries scientist Loren Hill, this device consisted of a wire you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's time to paint it black. One of the oldest cliches in fishing is that lures and flies have to catch fishermen before they ...

As a kid, one of the best days of the year was when the Bass Pro Shops Master Catalog showed up in the mail. It was 600 pages of excitement for a kid like me. Pages and pages of rods, reels, lures, ...

Gear up for a quick release. A small net and good pliers will help you release fish unharmed. If you want to keep bass to eat ...

From an art studio and workshop in a Cleveland Heights home are born many of the hottest lure colors ever to dangle from anglers’ fishing lines. Many of the beautiful hues that lure anglers to spend ...

Color is a major part of our lives today. From shoes, to lip gloss, to cars and trucks and even our camouflage, color can rule our decisions. In fishing there is a myriad of colors, hues and shades in ...