Keep Your Fish Cooler Cold with Dry Ice

Why dry ice is the answer to your cooler woes. Dry ice is nothing more than frozen carbon dioxide, and nothing less than the solution to many coo

Largemouth Bass Secrets for Post Spawn Lunkers

Serious bass anglers constantly seek the perfect pattern. But after bass leave their spawning beds, the best pattern is often none at all. Ive fished tournament

Prespawn Secrets for the Largemouth Bass of a Lifetime

As the prespawn gradually turns into the spawn, the shallows are loaded with largemouths. Even novice anglers can catch their share of bass this time of year by

The Secret to Finding Big Spawning Largemouth Bass

Some of the most gullible bass youll ever find are males guarding fry after the spawn. The key to catching them is to locate small clouds of the recently hatche

Skim Crankbaits in Shallow Water to Hammer Big Largemouth Bass

When postspawn bass are feeding in the shallows and every other angler on the lake is tossing traditional thin-water lures such as spinnerbaits and buzzbaits, t

Bass Pro Scott Martin on How to Rig the a Lizard for Largemouth

Soft-plastic lizards are deadly for fishing bedded bass. During the spawn, they are the go-to bait for many tournament anglers, including Florida bass pro Scott

How to Build Your Own Bass Pond

Bob McFarland is an ordinary guy who likes to bass fish. So when he chanced upon some land not far from his home in Houston, Texas, he did what most bass fisher

Bill Heavey: Fishing for Whales

I had the dream again last night. The one thats not really a dream at all but a memory so old and deeply fixed that it has moved into the gated subdivision of m

How to Make Your Own Lead-Head Fishing Jigs from Scratch

With a few specialty tools, turning scrap metal into leadhead jigs is easy and fun and will save you a few bucks to boot.  The first thing you need is lead

Jerry's Tips: Stalk Bucks, Bust Brookies, Find Bass and More...

BE A BETTER STALKERIf youre stalking a feeding deer, keep your eye on the animals tail to improve your position. A deer always twitches its tail just before rai

The 10 Best State Parks for Fishing in the USA

1 RANGELEY LAKE STATE PARK, MAINESite of the Northeasts last great trout rush, Rangeley Lake drew throngs of anglers in the 1880s, each with the realistic hope

Where to Fish for Bass in Hot Weather During Different Times of the Day

  Photo courtesy of Brian Gratwick/FlickrIn the heat of summer, most of us move as little as possible. Bass are just the opposite: Because their metabolism

How to Fish Soft Plastic Frog Baits

The following words are printed in bold type on the back of every Scum Frog lure package: WHEN A FISH STRIKES, WAIT TWO SECONDS BEFORE YOU SET THE HOOK. Its sou

How to Fish for Smallmouth Bass in the Fall

Back in February, with 2 feet of ice on your favorite smallmouth bass lake, the possibility that summer could ever last too long seemed unthinkable. But it happ

Davis Love III Talks about Why He Loves Fishing

Davis Love III is among the most accomplished golfers of his generation. He has 18 career PGA Tour victories, including a major (the 1997 PGA Championship), and

Eric Clapton on Death and Fishing

QUESTION: How would you like to die? ANSWER: Fishing —Guitarist ERIC CLAPTON, in the June issue of Vanity Fair

Pamela Bowser Hand-Feeds Trained Lunker Largemouths

Three years ago Pamela Bowser of Carlisle, Indiana, started feeding nightcrawlers by hand to two largemouth bass in her backyard pond. Now Peaches, 5 ½ pounds,

Shinichi Fukae Talks About Pro Bass Fishing

Japanese angler Shinichi Fukae doesnt speak English, but his fishing skills lose nothing in translation. The Osaka native recently made professional bass fishin

A Young Angler Deals with his Dad on the River

FIELD & STREAM YOUNG WRITERS CONTEST FIRST PLACE, AGES 13 TO 18: Abraham Dekat, 17 MIDWEST CITY, OKLAHOMA We had just bought the Titanic of canoes. It ha

How To Balance A Motorized Canoe

Rigging a portable trolling motor on a canoe is a popular way to fish small ponds almost everywhere. The hard part is keeping the craft balanced from end to end