Almost every veteran crappie catcher can recount times when he was catching fish just as fast as he could toss out a yellow jig, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, the fishing went bust. Different ...

One of the joys of fishing is meeting the challenges each experience presents, piecing together the puzzle, if you will, that results in a caught fish. Many elements come into play, fish location is ...

From an art studio and workshop in a Cleveland Heights home are born many of the hottest lure colors ever to dangle from anglers’ fishing lines. Many of the beautiful hues that lure anglers to spend ...

This chart shows how Brendan Bayard's artificial-lure color choices change with both sky conditions and water clarity. Anglers often want to know what color lures speckled trout and redfish are biting ...

Rather than offer a roundup of lures designed to catch fishermen first and billfish second, we polled a cross section of the world’s top marlin-chasing captains for their favorites. These specific ...

If you’re like me, the lures in your tackle boxes exhibit a kaleidoscope of colors. Some of my boxes contain only one lure type — spoons, for example, or jigs. However, none of these boxes contains ...

There are only a handful of certainties in bass fishing. For example: When you ask someone if they can throw a baitcaster and hear: “You mean the one with the button?” That’s a hard “no.” Equally ...

The hint of spring has a lot of us thinking about open-water fishing, even if it’s still February. There’s nothing like preparing early, which includes restocking the tackle boxes with those new baits ...

DULUTH — In the dusky, dusty basement of his West Duluth home — don’t forget to duck going down the stairs — Ed Forrestal works his magic with plastic and metal, epoxy and paint. Forrestal is the ...