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 ...

Fishing with plastic worms for largemouth bass is both intense and relaxing. An angler using a plastic worm must get their mind and the plastic worm working together. Concentrating on the plastic worm ...

Angela Perea at Lake Fayetteville Marina recommends using plastic worms, jig and pigs or spinner baits for black bass.

BEAVER LAKE -- Could be there are more black bass caught on plastic worms during spring and summer than on any other lure. These supple fish-catching worms come in every size, from little 4-inchers to ...

Swimming a plastic worm is one of the most simple fishing techniques, but also one of the most effective. Popularly known among bass anglers as speed worm fishing, swimming plastic wigglers produce ...

Jon Conklin, a fishing guide, said striped bass are scattered across the lake, with the highest concentration south of the Arkansas 12 bridge. Fishing is best from Monte Ne south into the White and ...

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 ...

Back in the 60s, Nick Creame began marketing his plastic worms. They were the color of nightcrawlers and most of us fished them the same way. Bunched up on a hook, they really didn’t appeal to bass as ...

When learning how to fish for bass, an essential first lesson for beginners is to master a few essential fishing rigs that use soft baits—whether they’re worms, crawfish, tube baits, or creature baits ...