"The Morning Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, informative, and hopefully entertaining. Enjoy it as a morning starter ...

Catch more bass without a boat by keeping it simple. Proven pond fishing tips, versatile lures, and easy shore strategies that really work. Most anglers, including the biggest name Bassmaster and ...

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Surf fishing and flyfishing are both challenging. It might be easy to assume, then, that combining the two would present the ultimate angling test. But in reality, it’s a lot less daunting than many ...

Catch bass in any pond by selecting the right lure for all possible conditions. Like any bass angler, I love tearing across a vast reservoir in a bass boat, but I probably spend twice as much time ...

Some people live for the blow of a big largemouth creaming a swimbait. Others can’t get enough of smallmouth erupting on Spooks walking across the surface. And, sure, I love those things too, but come ...

Once you feel the tug of a bass on a fly rod, you may question whether or not to go back to fly fishing trout. The bass's aggressive takes and hard-fighting attitude make them a fun and worthy ...

He appreciated the gear -- but let's see what Jon Caulfield says about fly-fishing after he returns from the cottage! "I like to toss Rapalas and spinners for bass, but it's not very exciting anymore, ...

This story was originally published in the June 1966 issue of Outdoor Life. During the 1950s and 60s, the author, Anthony A. Ciuffa absolutely hammered giant largemouth bass in small farm ponds across ...