Arguably the most underrated pattern along the entire Gulf Coast is throwing big, noisy topwater plugs to speckled trout as long as a man's arm during the late-winter and early spring months. It's a ...

Big fish smashing a topwater lure is the most exciting sensation in fishing, and there's no better time to experience it than now. Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, Kentucky bass, striped bass and ...

The fish are in such transition right now that for the early part of Wednesday's trip, they were one step ahead of Thomason. He started the afternoon at a heavily eroded island in Black Bay that had ...

Todd Schultz owns a trolling-motor-repair shop in Mandeville, and has fished South Louisiana since his only mode of transportation was a Schwinn Mag Scrambler. All those years of success on the water ...

When a fish decides to hit a topwater lure, they attack it from below and behind, usually. Sometimes they barely break water when they try to eat the lure, but more often than not, they attack the ...

After boating some bruisers a few days earlier in Hopedale, I had topwater-trout fever, so I did some map study at home, and identified three areas that I suspected would hold some big ones. I went ...

Fishing duo Cole and Jay face a sketchy situation with a giant topwater fish.