Extras

The Redcrest Championship showcases 35 of the top bass anglers in the world, and this year Jacob Wheeler won it for the first time. Here are the top five baits he used to run away with the title.

Early spring largemouth bass head shallow to feed well before the spawn. Here are Edwin Evers’ top three baits to catch them.

It’s one thing to win a bass fishing tournament; it’s another to win at life.

The author has planted Evolved food plot seed in western Wisconsin for two consecutive years. Growing conditions were less than ideal in 2024, and it was a repeat in 2025. Thankfully, the results were better than expected.

Bucking the trend of finesse lures, spinning rods and forward-facing sonar, many professional bass anglers have found big-money success in early 2026 by old-school power fishing with Z-Man ChatterBaits.

Late-winter is the perfect time for building, maintaining and improving whitetail bedding areas, and on some properties a technique called “hinge-cutting” works well.

During fall 2025, the author and his hunting partners field tested five annual seed blends from Mossy Oak BioLogic on three of their western Wisconsin food plots.

Sight fishing for trophy northern pike through the ice on a crystal-clear lake can be 99% boredom interrupted by 1% insanity.

The author and his family test three blends from Magnet Outdoors on a few of their Wisconsin food plots.

This bizarre bass fishing tournament story is the definition of “you can’t make this up.”

The St. Croix River in eastern Minnesota is home to a wide variety of fish, including sturgeon that can grow to monster proportions.

The author has been building and maintaining food plots for 30 years, but he made two big blunders in 2025.

Leupold Daylight Max polarized lenses are designed for low-light conditions. The author put them to the test during his most-recent Minnesota open-water fishing season.

Landowners in snow country can make life easier on winter whitetails by using a tractor to plow away deep snow from food plots.

The Benchmade 7-inch Fishcrafter is put to the test on everything from bluegills and crappies to northern pike and channel catfish — and even whitetail backstraps.

Professional bass angler Keith Poche and a buddy attempt to find bass in the backcountry, and along the way they get stuck (several times) and break down.

This YouTube video of Ivan Nastic hooking a monster bluefin tuna from shore on a topwater popper has been viewed more than 2.3 million times; check it out and you’ll see why!

Many bass anglers prefer to skip under docks and other overhanging cover with a baitcasting reel, but it’s not easy to do without getting a backlash. Here’s a simple tip to make it much easier.