Spinnerbaits, chatterbaits reported working well. Stickbaits and shallow cranks as well as a 1/16 oz weedless jig and sucker combo a common standard. Largemouth Bass: Good – Similar to Pike ...

Crappie are good in 4-6 feet of water on minnows and jigs. White bass are moving up river ... Catfish are good in 2-12 feet of water shallow on fresh cut shad. Crappie are being caught off the ...

Josh Menard at the Tackle Addict says bass fishing has been excellent around shallow cover using swim jigs, Senkos, Flukes, wacky worms and few on topwaters early in the day. Menard says the shad ...

In recent years, the swim jig has become a go-to lure for fishing the shad spawn. Think of the swim jig like a finesse spinnerbait that is much more weedless. So if the shad spawn is happening around ...

Three Rivers (Michigan) High School angler Carter Grewett shows off his personal best caught on a bladed jig. The chatterbait has been around for at least a decade and is remarkably weedless. It’s ...

White bass are starting to move and catching quite a few trolling crankbaits, rattle traps, shad or swimbaits. Crappie are good on jigs and minnows in coves and off of the channels. Report by Shon ...

Shad and minnows seek out plankton-rich environments. Bluegills, too. The bluegills will be there for the invertebrates lurking in the sand and gravel. Riprap offers a predator security and secrecy, a ...

After the first hour of light, the fish drop to the bottom with large profile jigs or plastics from 7 to ... He has been trolling custom shad patterned spoons on side planers or on 3 to 5 colors ...

Four anglers used different variations of the bladed jigs. Most focused on shad patterns (white and/or chartreuse), while angler Brent Ehrler also credited a Jack Hammer in a green pumpkin color.

As a kid, I thought bucktail jigs were terribly boring ... bucktails are enticing enough to land largemouth and smallmouth bass, pike, muskie, trout, shad, catfish, crappie, bluegill, and sunfish.

A few weeks ago, I was fishing an 8-foot-deep, tidal, navigable bayou in the South Louisiana marsh when I was approached by someone who ordered me to leave. I politely declined, and published a ...