Because our region is blessed with an abundance of great trout waters, many anglers from this area tend to forget the most popular gamefish in this country is the largemouth bass. Not only are ...

During more than a dozen fishing trips to lakes and sloughs and other inland waters over the past couple of months, I've seen exactly one snake. That was Tuesday morning, when a broad-banded water ...

When the fishing turns summertime tough, bass anglers get downright wacky. Plastic worms may catch more black bass during summer than any other lure. There are all kinds of ways to rig them. One that ...

Soft plastic lures arguably are the most versatile fishing lures invented and inarguably are the best all-around lures for largemouth bass. And just when you think there’s nothing new that can be done ...

When it comes to catching black bass, most anglers would rather fool 'em with plastic worms than feed 'em the real thing. Fishermen resurrect supple, soft plastic worms from their tackle boxes as ...

Innovations often come about by accident. It happened 65 years ago, when Nick Creme, an Akron, Ohio machinist, invented a game-changing fishing lure. Creme decided he was tired of digging for ...

Courtesy Telegram about Nationa Bassl Champiionship. Longevity is not something synonymous with the fishing tackle industry. With few exceptions everything introduced yesterday is old news today. One ...

Although bass season is now in full swing, heavy rains last week made the Juniata River a bit high and muddy for good smallmouth fishing. That situation shifted my focus from river smallmouths to lake ...

Dustin Hoffman as “The Graduate” received this piece of advice: “Plastics.” Fishing entrepreneurs must have seen the movie and got the message, too. The first plastic worm I ever used was manufactured ...