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Hardwater Bass: Tackle, Tactics & Hotspots in the East

Other ice-fishing species get more attention, but bass also offer hot action.

Al Raychard

Hit Small Streams for End-of-Summer Channel Cats

Catching a limit of summertime catfish doesn't mean having to fish big water in the East.

M.D. Johnson

Summer Stream Smallies on Slow Soft-Plastics

Topwaters and cranks are fine, but slow presentations are consistently good for river

Bruce Ingram

What's Not to Like About Shellcrackers on the Fly?

Redear sunfish will take a fly and fight hard, and they're biting now.

Lynn Burkhead

Striper Fishing on the Flats

Tips for approaching and catching big striped bass when they move into shallow water.

Michael Tougias

Find River Smallmouth Bass in the Flow

The bass action is heating up in the Eastern region's smallmouth rivers.

Jeff Knapp

Ain't No Fluke: Top Spots for Late-Summer Flat Fish

As the late-summer fluke bite moves to deeper water, here are 8 of the East Coast's hottest

By Capt. Tom Migdalski

Solve the Pre-Spawn Puzzle for Smallmouth Bass

It's a tough time to target smallies, but it can also be very rewarding. Here are some great

Tony Hansen

Go Deep for Late-Summer Bluegills

August finds packs of roving bluegills feeding their way through the deepest parts of many

Jeff Knapp

The Story of Record (and Near-Record) Bluegills

After a huge ‘gill caught by a kid in Okla. goes viral, we take a look at the biggest of the

Lynn Burkhead

Family Fishing Getaway: Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Summer Playbook: Action abounds both on and off the water in the Western New York region.

Jeff Knapp

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