Bass Fishing

LiveTarget Sunfish

Apparently startled, certainly rattled, a small, injured bream swam to the surface, zigged and zagged in the scattered grass, jumped a little and landed sideways before continuing to move erratically until it settled back into the water to meet its fate. […]

Freshwater Fishing

The Matrix Mini

Chas Champagne wishes it would have been as simple as pointing a futuristic-looking device at one of the most-popular speckled trout soft plastics on the market and reducing the size significantly, like in the 1989 movie “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” […]

Bass Fishing

Storm Wiggle Warts

The importance of realistic, crawfish patterns is well known to Bassmaster Elite pro, and Brandon Palaniuk proved it on his way to finishing second in the 2013 Bassmaster Classic on Grand Lake in Oklahoma. […]

Fishing

Stanley’s Ribbit Runt

Ann Thomasson Wilson knows a good artificial lure when she sees one.

Or, more accurately, the former professional angler knows a good artificial lure when she doesn’t see one — as when they’re flying off the shelves at Ann’s Tackle Shop in Jasper, Texas, seven miles from Lake Sam Rayburn. […]

Fishing

BKB Swim Jigs

A Kansas bass angler is doing more than holding his own on the Bassmaster Elite Series circuit.

Casey Scanlon is also designing artificial lures — specifically swim jigs and flippin’ jigs — with his good friend and Bass Kandi Baits’ Mike “Redbone” Holland in Ragley near Lake Charles. […]