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 ...

Fishing lures are an integral part of Mark Fisher's life. As Rapala's director of field promotions, he can tell you in minute detail about all the lures the company offers. But his voice takes on a ...

The Lure Love Podcast has crunched the numbers in its database and determined that jigs, by far, have caught the most record fish of any lure type among the nearly 20,000 records it has on file. The ...

The story of what probably is the world's No. 1-fished lure began nearly 80 years ago with a simple observation by Finnish angler Lauri Rapala. In 1936, while fishing the waters of Finland's Lake ...

Largemouth bass are opportunistic feeders. Everything is on the menu for these aggressive fish, from baitfish to crustaceans to worms to frogs to mice. I even once hand-fed a piece of fried chicken to ...

An era passed Saturday with the funeral of Ray Ostrom, 85, of Bloomington. His life story, and that of his business partner, Ron Weber of Edina, is uniquely Minnesotan -- and one every fisherman might ...