In this Jackson Kayak Tip of the Week, Mike Ernst details how to set up the right panfish rig for ultralight kayak fishing. Crappie and other panfish fishing can be much overlooked as we get more ...

Josh Chrenko of Indianapolis is a hardcore smallmouth bass angler, but he’d never seen a fish quite like the one he landed on Michigan’s Muskegon River earlier this month. Chrenko and a buddy had ...

No species is more closely associated with freshwater fishing than bass. It’s what most people—anglers and nonanglers alike—envision catching when casting into a lake or pond. And it makes sense ...

There was a chill in the air this morning. The sky was a robin’s egg blue with not a cloud in sight. It was one of those magnificent fall days heading our way. And it reminded me that right now is ...

and fall, is to take your lake’s temperature. Odds are you already have some sort of electronic device on your boat that can be used to determine the surface temperature of the water you’re fishing, ...

It’s fall and things have changed on your favorite bass fishing waters. Shorter days, falling water temps, and shifting baitfish patterns cause bass to position and behave differently. If you hit the ...

I pride myself on my mostly very logical approach to bass fishing. I seek rationale. I need data to back things up. If the answer is “because we’ve always done it that way”, it usually doesn’t sit ...