The Jitterbug is one of the best night bass fishing lures ever created. The lure elicits vicious strikes from largemouth bass in farm ponds and small lakes on summer nights, but also fools stream ...

The first bass I ever caught on a topwater lure came more than 50 years ago, but that event is etched in my memory as clearly as if it occurred last week. I was in my early teens and had ridden my ...

GEORGETOWN, Ill. (AP) -- At age 6, Sam Van Camp caught his first little bluegill in Danville's Old Stony Creek using a wooden stick for a pole, a safety pin for a hook and a worm for bait. "I was so ...

There was a bit of magic inside the cardboard box hidden away in the corner of an unused room. The box, about a foot square, barely peeked out from behind the sleeping bags, waders and life jackets ...

Word from the water is that top-water action for black bass is getting livelier now that it's autumn. A morning of first-light fishing at Beaver Lake found me searching the tackle box for just the ...

The big wooden bass plug hit the water with a loud “ker-plop.” Even though I could not see the lure — after all, it was somewhere past midnight on the lee side of a little Canadian island — I knew it ...

In August and early September I have enjoyed some of the best top-water fishing I can recall, with nothing more than a casting reel, my old johnboat and an old-fashioned jitterbug lure and a headlamp.

Nothing epitomizes bass fishing quite like the sudden explosion under the angler’s topwater lure before it disappears in the maelstrom, and the angler jacks the hooks into the jaws of a bucking ...

Catching fish on top-water lures can be so exciting that some anglers would rather catch one fish on a top-water than two or three down deep. Lures that splash and dance across the surface are ...