Sadly, there's no magic lure that entices trout all the time. What I've found is that the best lure for trout depends on ...

When I was a kid, the only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional bass fisherman. On Saturday mornings while the others were watching cartoons, I would wake up, pour myself a bowl of Lucky ...

When trolled at slow to moderate speeds, the distinctive wide wiggle action has been drawing strikes longer than I’ve been alive. The split-tail design simulates an erratic baitfish action that even ...

Using the technique for trout often requires the patience of Job because of how slow the lure falls. Brunning fishes it weightless, but will sometimes add a finishing nail in the middle of the lure if ...

Entire aisles at Bass Pro Shops, Gander Mountain and Cabela's are lined with hundreds of different trout lure and baits. Sometimes it seems the vast selection might be designed to attract anglers, and ...

Jacksonville’s Paul Misner and I launched his 16-foot Hewes skiff into the lower St. Johns River well before dawn. The target was sea trout, as reports had been good for numbers of slot fish from ...

Nothing provides more confidence than actually doing something yourself without anyone’s guidance. That statement is what comes to mind when I think about the first trout I caught using a lure instead ...

An inside-joke among trout fisherman for decades has been the idea that most trout fishing lures are designed more to attract anglers, and their dollars, than to attract fish. Here are 10 popular ...

As anglers, we're most often cursing the conditions. Either the wind is strong, the water's dirty, the tide is dead, the rain is heavy or we must endure all of the above at the same time. But every ...