To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

To catch boatloads of big Tennessee River bass during a shad spawn, Major League Fishing Pro David Walker spends his mornings casting reaction baits and finesse rigs at freshwater mussel beds on the ...

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It’s time to get serious about American shad. These feisty fish are a great choice for shaking the summer doldrums, being readily available along more than 150 miles of the lower Columbia and Snake ...

Word from the water is that top-water action for black bass is getting livelier now that it's autumn. A morning of first-light fishing at Beaver Lake found me searching the tackle box for just the ...

Jerk baits, Alabama rigs, crank baits or jig and pigs are good lure choices for black bass, said Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Work them along rock or gravel points and rocky banks.

When water temperatures drop and schools of shad grow scarce, bass enthusiasts targeting the heaviest fish switch to an umbrella rig that imitates a small cloud of shad to turn the bite on. The best ...

The Norfork Lake striper fishing is hot right now. The stripers are feeding on flats in the 30 to 40-foot range around Crystal Cove and then up to Fout's. Large schools of shad are roaming the flats, ...

What do you get when you take a hard bait body, add a tie-in point to its front end, a five-arm wire harness to its back end, then attach a swivel at the end of each arm? Your mental picture might ...

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 ...