Learn expert strategies for fishing slop mats for largemouth bass using hollow body frogs, flipping jigs, and Texas-rigged plastics. Maximize your summer bass game in heavy cover.

The Real Deal. My biggest largemouth bass to date, an Ontario fish that tipped the scales at six-pounds even, fell for a flipping jig. The heaviest three in line below that lunker were also fooled ...

Among the more popular deep divers are the Rapala DT baits (DT12, DT14, DT16, and DT20), as well as the Strike King 6XD. The Bomber Fat Free Shads are also really popular, as are the Norman DD22s. But ...

Versatility makes this bottom-bouncer the best largemouth bass lure, especially in fall. It catches big bass from small spots in shallow or deep water. The best fall bass lures are task specific.

George Fiorille, of Moravia, holds a nice largemouth bass he caught and released during a bass fishing tournament on Oneida Lake. Do bass that are caught and released remember the lures they are ...

The topic turned, as it can when fishermen converse, to some new lure that has grabbed the attention and wallets of anglers. Maybe it was the unwieldy, hard-to-cast and now quickly-fading-from-the ...