From summer into autumn, Texas' largemouth bass become vulnerable to an affliction caused by their gluttonous appetite. And this makes bass anglers happy. The malady? Frog in the throat. Well, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE -There's nothing like a good frog bite to elevate a bass angler's heart rate. Opportunistic predators that they are, largemouth bass won't hesitate to eat a live frog as it hops across ...

There's nothing dull about casting a frog around lily pads and over weed beds. A frog lure, that is. Bass anglers like to begin their fishing day bay by tying on a top water lure. Largemouth bass have ...

Every topwater strike makes bass fishing more fun. But there’s something about topwater frog fishing—watching that almost comical-looking bait hop and sputter and then get suddenly obliterated—that ...

Texas' 1 million-plus licensed hunters aren't the only ones welcoming November's arrival. The state holds more than 1 million anglers who say largemouth bass are their favorite fishing target. And ...

Since the first time I tied on a Zoom Horny Toad in the spring of 2005, I’ve been a frogman. There’s something viscerally addictive about a largemouth bass blasting a fast-moving plastic frog. I ...

The soft-plastic lure fluttered and kicked like a struggling frog across the weed mat and into the open pocket. Then, with the abrupt swirl that never gets old, a solid bass rose in a boiling strike.

Every once in a while, someone asks me, “Why do you like fishing so much? Isn’t it boring?” My first impulse is to put them in a Homer Simpson-style chokehold for even thinking fishing could be boring ...

I have enjoyed an eventful fishing season, catching my first tarpon in the Florida Keys, and my first cobia in the Chesapeake Bay. Almost as exciting, I have discovered the joy of catching largemouth ...

The last throes of a brutally hot summer are upon us, and if you’ve done much pond fishing recently you know that the weeds and other plantlife that inhabit the small bodies of water are at their peak ...