Bass

Texas bass fishing is akin to Texas deer hunting: You don’t have to go far to find the big ones. Many of the state’s more than 2 million resident anglers have started their pursuit of finding the lunker of a lifetime, while some have hit the jackpot recently. There have...

Texas remains among the absolute top destinations for bass fishing in these United States, something that Bassmaster Magazine again has recognized, with 10 lakes in the Lone Star State making its annual Top 100 rankings for best bass fisheries in the nation in 2019. Sam Rayburn Reservoir (No. 3 this...

Springtime is prime time to catch lunker largemouth bass in Texas waters, specifically females that have moved up shallow ahead of and during the spawning process. There are a number of factors that can dictate when these fish will be there, helping you narrow down your angling efforts. The magic water...

MUSTANG ISLAND -- No matter what the square said on the calendar, school was in session. The surface in the summer shallows popped and squished as horse mullet zoomed back and forth amid stands of waving seagrass and sandy potholes dotted with the occasional oyster shell or crab. The rising...

The midday landscape on the back side of Mustang Island was sweltering. The horizon danced and bubbled as the heat index rolled well above triple digits. I was in the danger zone. The paddle that seemed so feathery under the early morning clouds and in the cool breeze at dawn had been...

There's a vast difference between "fishing" and "catching." That statement is especially true for bass anglers. Even if you've got the time and money to put in the days needed to truly get on a pattern, fishing typically is done a whole lot more than catching. For the weekend warrior, knowing...

The vibrant afternoon that held promise only a few hours before had morphed into a shadowy evening crammed no shortage of frustration, as well as no fish. The sloping sand flat littered with waving grass and oyster shells had produced a number of good fish in the past, but on...

Back in the spring of 2006, Billy Greeson had a monster day on the water while bass fishing. The Amarillo firefighter caught a 15-pound largemouth bass on a black and blue jig on the final day of March, setting the Lake Alan Henry record, which still stands to this day....

Shhh ... don't let the cat out of the bag. The best-kept secret in the early 1990s in Brownwood surprisingly had nothing to do with high school football, the next man to follow in the legendary footsteps of Gordon Wood or the juicy details of a Lions-Yellow Jackets rivalry that...

The apex of the spring bass fishing season is right around the corner and summer will be here before we know it. That means there will be plenty of opportunities to get close to plenty of other angling targets, including inshore and offshore saltwater species such as redfish, trout...