The soft-plastic lure fluttered and kicked like a struggling frog across the weed mat and into the open pocket. Then, with the abrupt swirl that never gets old, a solid bass rose in a boiling strike.

From summer into autumn, Texas' largemouth bass become vulnerable to an affliction caused by their gluttonous appetite. And this makes bass anglers happy. The malady? Frog in the throat. Well, ...

Some 50 years ago, Harry Ehlers was working in the Toto rubber boot factory in Cincinnati, Ohio, when he realized the same dip-mold process used to make the boots could also be used to make a ...

There are certain experiences an outdoors person seems to remember forever. A nice buck emerging from a wooded thicket 5 minutes after legal hunting time on the opening day, a vocal spring gobbler ...

Every topwater strike makes bass fishing more fun. But there’s something about topwater frog fishing—watching that almost comical-looking bait hop and sputter and then get suddenly obliterated—that ...

I have enjoyed an eventful fishing season, catching my first tarpon in the Florida Keys, and my first cobia in the Chesapeake Bay. Almost as exciting, I have discovered the joy of catching largemouth ...

There are certain outdoors experiences anglers seem to remember forever. A rack buck emerges out of a wooded thicket five minutes after legal hunting time on the opening day, a vocal spring gobbler ...

There’s nothing like a good frog bite to elevate a bass angler’s heart rate. Opportunistic predators that they are, largemouth bass won’t hesitate to eat a live frog as it hops across a patch of lily ...

Cole & Jay test a new frog lure that hooks giant bass consistently.