For years, ice anglers were told they had to downsize to catch fish. Fish are cold blooded and their metabolism slows in winter, so we need to use tiny lures to catch these fickle feeders, we thought.

With a level of ice cover not experienced in a few winters, open-water ice-out fishing seems a long way away. But likely within the next six weeks the longer daylight hours and warmer air temperatures ...

Top-shelf finishes in a shad profile make this one hard for bass and other game fish to pass up. This tried-and-true performer still owns the lipless market without a painful pinch at the cash ...

Note: This is the final installment of the 3-part series. If you're going to go fishing, you gotta have some gear to tote the lures and fling them at targets while you're in the boat or on the bank.

It's an odd behavior. At a time when largemouth bass in Alabama lakes have their lowest metabolism of the year, and logically should be lethargic--literally slow as molasses in January, perhaps--they ...

Canadian multispecies guru Alex Keszler provides an in-depth ice fishing tutorial on the use of rattling lipless crankbaits for giant nomadic walleye on Manitoba’s sprawling Lake Winnipeg.

When grading cast-n-crank lures, lipless crankbaits score high, producing bass bites with little input from the angler on the other end of the line. A more refined approach though — one that provides ...