I love to catch bass no matter which lure I use. But there still has to be a best way, right? On my way up to a recent Northwoods bass fishing week, a friend asked if there was some specific bite I ...

Fishing a frog over the pads and slop is one of my absolute favorite ways to catch bass. The visual strikes are absolutely explosive. When the bite is on, a day of frog fishing is a great day. It’s ...

There is not anything more exciting than catching a bass on a topwater bait. Of all the options, a frog may top the list because of the excitement of that big mouth exploding out of the vegetation. I ...

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 ...

The dog days of summer also mean that bass usually move off-shore for cooler water or retreat to thick vegetation for the same reason. And while anglers will most likely have better success in deeper ...

Striper fishing at night on Lake Cumberland, frog gigging by kayak, and fishing for striped bass. We're on Lake Cumberland striper fishing at night, frog gigging by kayak on Beaver Lake and kayak ...

This story, “Nights of Passage,” appeared in the July 1993 issue of Outdoor Life. During the summer nights of my childhood, the largemouth bass that had been driven into hiding all day were on patrol ...

Striped bass feed aggressively in the surf at night, and fall is the time to catch them on the New Jersey coast. Fishing at night for stripers in the surf requires know-how and research beyond just ...