largemouth bass Articles

A buzzbait is a great way to cover water and locate aggressive largemouth bass, and if you want to entice more strikes and hook a higher percentage of fish, then watch this tip from professional angler Jacob Wheeler.

Most of the time, you don’t need to pack the kitchen sink to catch bass, and this is especially true when wading a creek, hiking the shore of a pond or lake, or fishing in a small kayak.

Not many anglers will ever hook a largemouth bass this size, especially in a big-money tournament, which makes losing it in this manner all the more painful. Dang!

Watching someone catch the biggest fish of their life is special. Check out TV host Steve Harvey as he catches a Tennessee largemouth weighing 8.9 pounds on a crankbait!

These spiky, floating, soft-plastic urchins are the hottest baits on the bass market in 2026. Here’s how to rig and fish them.

Bassmaster Elite angler Cory Johnston experiences southern hospitality in a way you have to see to believe.

Professional bass angler Michael Neal had never caught a 10-pound bass — until he smashed his personal best (PB) with an 11-pounder!

The month of May can be dynamite when it comes to catching numbers of largemouth bass, and some big ones, too, provided you’re throwing the right baits — in the right places.

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.

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.

The U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team recently beat Canada in the gold medal game in Milan, Italy, and Team USA’s Connor Hellebuyck (above) was named the tournament’s best goalie. His unique mask caught the eye of many anglers.

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.

Late summer is an excellent time to target bass, and oftentimes the best few hours are those leading up to dark.

One of the best spots to catch largemouth bass during summer is reed beds (bulrushes). Here’s how to find and catch bass in even the biggest reed beds.

Summer is the perfect time to throw a hollow-bodied frog over thick cover for largemouth bass, but many anglers have trouble hooking fish. Here’s how to increase your hookup percentage when fishing frogs.

Bass anglers can choose from many stickbait brands, but in the author’s opinion, the top choice is the YUM Dinger.

The largemouth bass shown in this video — caught April 2nd — now ranks as the 20th largest bass ever weighed on a certified scale in Texas. Crazy!

Any parent who loves to fish knows that nothing beats watching their son or daughter catch a big fish.

A kitten is rescued from a lake by a kayak angler, and it obviously loves fishing!

This production — about an ancient carp — is so well done, it’s more of a film than simply a video. In your opinion, is it a bit over the top?

ChatterBaits and other vibrating jigs are tremendously effective bass lures, but you can catch even more fish by learning these five tips.

If all of your spinnerbaits feature an open loop, then you’re missing out, especially in northern pike country.

Most anglers use a Z-Man ChatterBait for shallow-water largemouths. Here’s video proof the lure is deadly for deep-water bass, too.

Professional angler Brian Latimer has learned that largemouth bass often hide near objects that you likely overlook.

Tournament bass pro Matt Stefan reveals a wacky rig technique unlike anything you’ve seen before.

You don’t need a dozen bass rods rigged with different baits to target summertime largemouth on deep weedlines. In fact, you can always do well with these two weedless lures.

A new lake record largemouth bass was caught today from O.H. Ivie Reservoir in central Texas, and this Facebook Live video shows the fish being weighed at a nearby tackle shop/convenience store.

YouTuber Tyler Anderson visits famed O.H. Ivie Reservoir in central Texas and battles one of the biggest bass ever captured on video.

It’s every competitive bass anglers dream to have a mega bag on the final day of an event to cruise to victory, and recently that dream became a reality for Texan Lee Livesay.