Plenty of hefty smallmouth bass fall for crankbaits, jerkbaits, spinnerbaits, and midsize swimbaits all along the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. These more aggressive lures have their time and ...

It didn’t hurt that his years of excellence coincided with a massive shift in the quality of lines, hooks and other gear. When Martens began his professional career in the 1990s, braid had just come ...

We're out on the shoreline running an easy rig for catching carp - a finesse carp rig, or a sliding sinker rig. Bait your hook up (I used corn) and cast it out. The key is that sliding sinker. As ...

In case you haven’t heard, these Starting Spot Daily Bass Fishing Headlines are the perfect way to start your day with some of the top bass fishing articles on the internet. As always, rub the sleep ...

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 ...

A new finesse hardbait just hit the market, and the father of finesse fishing approves. The Mag Lip Finesse 2.5 and 3.0 are a series of lures based on the popular Mag Lip lures from Yakima, but made ...

A Topeka fishing guide is helping to steer a longtime cold-water lure company into the über-hot bass market. Clyde Holscher, of Guide Lines Guide Service, is a well-known Midwest Finesse angler and a ...

Southern Fishing News is now offering a free online class in finesse fishing for bass, designed primarily for high-school bass clubs but very helpful to anyone who wants to learn this effective tactic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If I could only fish with one presentation, it would be a soft-plastic bait on a jig head. I readily admit that my strength as an angler is finesse fishing.

Although throwing topwater baits is exciting, expecting those explosive blow-ups, reaction baits with better hook-up ratios will put more fish in your boat during Tennessee River reservoir shad-spawns ...