Top of the morning or top of the afternoon — take your pick. Early or late, fresh or salt, October beckons with some of the best topwater fishing of the year for Texas anglers. The subtle seasonal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lake Erie, Dale Hollow Lake, and the St. Lawrence River are just a few locations in the U.S. that grow giant smallmouth. These are iconic places to fish, but to truly be effective on those waters, you ...

Some of the most frustrating days on the water happen when you know fish are there, conditions look right, and topwater should be the answer—but nothing commits. Pressured fish don’t stop feeding, but ...

Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said black bass fishing is good. Try top-water lures in the morning. Go with plastic worms, ...

Few fishing accomplishments are as exciting as catching bass on the surface. Submitted photo. The temperature was pushing 80 degrees. Not bad for a July afternoon, but this was at 6 a.m. It was going ...

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 ...

Top water bass fishing is hard to beat especially when a big fish explodes on a popper lure. Watch this exciting strike and ...

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 ...

An alligator grunted, a bullfrog drummed, and cooling shadows pulled across the green shoreline. It was topwater time. And it was a long time ago. The old plugger sat in the wooden johnboat and tugged ...