Huge bass released and bite improved at Eastman Hensley, Alan Vang reported. Don Pedro king salmon hitting, Monte Smith said.

Spring is making its presence known, and the warm sunny days are bringing out anglers. Maryland’s special youth trout fishing ...

This is my absolute favorite swimbait to throw when I’m on a body of water with sunfish, bluegill, and other large-bodied forage species. The Shad Swimbait is available in three sink rates ...

On the flip side, while the fish will be at their heaviest weight, these east Texas bass don’t sit still for long. “There will be a lot of fish movement, and that is typical of Ray Roberts,” Zaldain ...

Fish are also staging near creek channel swings, and can be caught using an underspin with a 4 inch shad swimbait. Expect these next couple of weeks to be excellent as water temperatures continue ...

There’s no such thing as an insurmountable lead in a B.A.S.S. tournament, but Yui Aoki has put himself in a very enviable position after Day 2 of the Bassmaster Open at Kentucky Lake/Lake Barkley.

But, it’s not as easy as just throwing some swimbaits on the wires and tossing it out there ... you’ll see just how closely it resembles a school of shad, alewives, or shiners. While it can be tiring ...

Discover how Lake Hartwell became one of bass fishing’s most legendary battlegrounds. Explore past Bassmaster Classic champions and their winning tactics.

Trout trolling is fair with shad-patterned spoons at depths from ... For bass, Grimsley reported a swimbait bite early in the mornings before the bass back off into deep water by mid-morning ...

This little swimbait works great on its own but excels ... just to lose one every time you catch a fish. The Zoom smokin shad is an excellent budget bait that won’t hurt your results.

If a bass is in the mood to feed, it will aggressively hunt down and attack minnows, shad, sunfish ... to moving baits like deep crankbaits and swimbaits, while mixing in Texas rigged worms ...

Baitfish, consisting mostly of shad and blueback herring ... two types of soft stickbaits, swimbaits and a homemade bladed jig. Catching prespawn bass around docks was a key strategy.