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Post-spawn walleye and smallmouth bass move on a clock. Here's the late-May 2026 playbook — water temps, structure, and the lures that work right now.
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Free fishing times calculator for any US ZIP code. Computes your prime twilight feeding windows from solar altitude, plus exact solunar major and minor periods, whic...
Read the articleFishing across the seasons. Solunar timing, species tactics for walleye, bass and more, kayaks and boats, and cold-water safety.
SITKA Fish is SITKA Gear’s first fishing apparel line – a four-layer GORE-TEX Pro wading system anchored by the $1,000 CrossCurrent Zip GTX Wader. Verified specs, lineup pricing, and how it lands against Simms, Patagonia, and Orvis.
The best fishing kayaks for 2026, ranked across pedal and paddle drives. Compare capacity, stability, storage, and transport weight to find your hull for summer.
Post-spawn walleye and smallmouth bass move on a clock. Here’s the late-May 2026 playbook — water temps, structure, and the lures that work right now.
Winter fishing safety means defining hard limits, standardizing your procedures, and treating every winter outing as a cold-exposure operation. Operating principle: Abort criteria guardrails come first. Always assume worst-case. Standard definitions used throughout this article: Winter fishing: Any fishing activity when air temperatures are near or below freezing, ice is present, or water temperatures are…
Master bait with the two hottest new fishing lures of 2025! The best thing about fishing is all that “me time” that we get while we dip our lines. Trouble is, so much of the commercial bait that’s sold just isn’t … realistic … enough. Forget spinny spoons and shiny minnows; these days, it’s all…
Offshore angling just got a lot more kino … Ever heard of kite fishing? It’s an exhilarating fishing strategy that harnesses the power of ocean wind to create irresistible attraction. The kite keeps live baits on the water’s surface, creating a realistic presentation for surface-feeding fish. As anglers deploy the kites, a large surface area across…
Depending on where you live in the country, Winter 2024 may not be the best ice-fishing year on record. When variable weather like much of America is experiencing strikes, ice conditions will also be variable. It’s important to put safety first if they venture out ice fishing. “Check the ice as you go, avoid areas…
Things really are bigger in Texas, and that includes the bass coming out of O.H. Ivie Lake, which claims the coveted spot atop the 2023 Bassmaster Magazine 100 Best Bass Lakes standings for the first time in history. This reservoir has stolen the spotlight over the last three years, producing an eye-popping 15 Legacy Class ShareLunker bass — a designation…
Public lands are for the public, not just the elite. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) applauds the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee for the bipartisan approval of the Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act, H.R. 615, introduced by U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.). This crucial legislation would ensure our nation’s number…
For 14-year-old angler John Amico of Palm City, Florida, persistence finally paid off, to the tune of a $25,000 scholarship presented by the CCA Florida STAR Tournament and Realtree Fishing. Eleven different species of saltwater fish are eligible for entry during the youth portion of the tournament. Amico won the scholarship after submitting more than…
An angler’s tip helped Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers recover more than 460 pounds of illegally taken salmon from a group of anglers who traveled from Colorado to Michigan to fish the Manistee River in October 2022. The group went away with far less than they caught, and will be paying over $6,000…
B.A.S.S. and the C.A.S.T. for Kids Foundation are accepting nominations for their annual humanitarian award recognizing the important work being done by many anglers to support fragile populations. The C.A.S.T. for Kids B.A.S.S. Humanitarian Award will honor one B.A.S.S. member who has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to serving groups such as children with special needs, veterans, abuse survivors or…
