I love to catch bass no matter which lure I use. But there still has to be a best way, right? On my way up to a recent Northwoods bass fishing week, a friend asked if there was some specific bite I ...

Every topwater strike makes bass fishing more fun. But there’s something about topwater frog fishing—watching that almost comical-looking bait hop and sputter and then get suddenly obliterated—that ...

Fishing a frog over the pads and slop is one of my absolute favorite ways to catch bass. The visual strikes are absolutely explosive. When the bite is on, a day of frog fishing is a great day. It’s ...

Although frogs and fish may appear similar from the water’s surface, they have many differences that make them easy to distinguish with a trained eye. Fish typically spend all of their lives in water.

Two of a Kind: Tim Reed (left) and Rodney Smith pause their hunt for a photo. Well past midnight, Tim Reed and Rodney Smith paddle down a skinny stretch of water in northern New York, to a spot where ...

The 2025 turkey open season begins, frog gigging with friends, fishing for smallmouth bass.

Forty or 50 years ago, there were around 30 froggers in the Fellsmere area making a living hunting frogs year-round.

A coalition of water and agricultural interests has raised concerns about a proposed critical habitat designation for foothill yellow-legged frogs. Nervous California farmers, ranchers and water ...