The bass are making spawning beds and are up shallow. Ned rigs and Tube jigs are working great. Keep a Zara Spook topwater bait close. Suppose there’s no wind, fish a shaky head. If you have wind, ...

Tyler — SLOW. Water normal stain; 57 degrees; 0.20 feet above pool. Catfish are slow cut bait and stink bait. Bream are slow. Bass are slow but moving back shallow. Crappie are starting to spawn in 8 ...

How do you catch 19 pounds of largemouth bass on a single cast? Just ask Grady Codd of Fort Worth, Texas, who was fishing Mexico’s famed Lake El Salto last December. Using an Alabama rig, Codd reeled ...

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 ...

Tyler — SLOW. Water normal stain; 48 degrees; 0.12 feet above pool. Very few anglers on the water due to the cold fronts. Expect the bite to continue to be slow for all species. Report by The Boulders ...

Anglers should have three lures handy to catch black bass -- jerk baits, crawdad colored crank baits and Alabama rigs. That's the word from Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Those lures ...

Black bass are biting a variety of lures. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said bass can be caught with jerk baits, crank baits or Alabama rigs from 2 to 20 feet deep along points and ...