Topwater Striper fishing can be very explosive at times and the whole boat could see frantic action, just like in today's ...

We're out here on Rondeau Bay fishing the last hour of that evening bite for some Largemouth Bass. We're going topwater ...

Nothing thrills like a topwater bite, and whether you're fishing during the early morning feed or prospecting a midday shade pocket, the right topwater bait often tempts the biggest fish. The question ...

Big fish smashing a topwater lure is the most exciting sensation in fishing, and there's no better time to experience it than now. Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, Kentucky bass, striped bass and ...

It starts without warning. While fishing down the shoreline for bass on a glorious autumn day, the water behind you suddenly erupts in chaos. Huge schools of baitfish, with nowhere to flee, leap from ...

Freshwater anglers have lots of topwater options. In the bass game especially, those looking for surface eruptions can dip into practically any lure genre and find the perfect bait to call up a hog.

Miserable is the most appropriate word I can come up with for the weather this past week. Temperatures over 100 with humidity over 90 just doesn’t work for me. A good friend recently returned from a ...

From an Alaskan guide coming out of retirement for one more shot, to must-have topwater bass baits, to the best soft plastic baits, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated fishing reader’s ...

There is one other aspect of topwater fishing and that is frog fishing. I don’t know why frogs are kept separate, but they are. I guess it’s because the topwaters I have been talking about are used in ...

If there is one redeeming characteristic about summertime fishing, it is the occurrence of topwater feeding frenzies. For whatever reason, the topwater action once produced at Stillhouse Hollow Lake ...

Don’t tell my bass club mentors, my editors or my colleagues on the Board of Directors of the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame, but I’ve been cheating on my first love for five years, and I don’t intend to ...