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 ...

Top water bass fishing is hard to beat especially when a big fish explodes on a popper lure. Watch this exciting strike and see why surface fishing is one of the most thrilling ways to catch bass. #Ba ...

There's nothing better than landing a giant bass that crushed a frog lure. Watching a massive bass blow up on a topwater frog ...

You already know there is no more exciting and satisfying way to catch a bass than with a topwater lure, but which one is best, when and where? The following list highlights the five most universally ...

Companies have spawned seemingly every conceivable critter into a topwater bait—from frogs and rodents to flying mammals, birds, and even turtles. While some lures achieve instant notoriety for their ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most important part of tying a topwater bass fly is putting enough hair on the hook. So, one Saturday morning in early April, Derek Darst just kept adding more. He tied in ...

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

Catching fish on top-water lures can be so exciting that some anglers would rather catch one fish on a top-water than two or three down deep. Lures that splash and dance across the surface are ...