Outside of spring, there's no better time to target smallmouth, largemouth, and spotted bass than the fall. As the summer heat fades away and the first few cool nights are ushered in, water temps ...

It’s fall and things have changed on your favorite bass fishing waters. Shorter days, falling water temps, and shifting baitfish patterns cause bass to position and behave differently. If you hit the ...

Besides spring, the fall is when big fish really show themselves. Depending on the latitudes you fish, bass are gorging themselves for the long - or short - cold weather season ahead. It's the time of ...

It starts without warning. While fishing down the shoreline for bass on a glorious autumn day, the water behind you suddenly erupts in chaos. Huge schools of baitfish, with nowhere to flee, leap from ...

Smallmouth bass are generalists and curious by nature, regularly taking advantage of their diverse feeding strategies. Any given day a smallmouth may gaze at the surface and go for a conventional/fly ...

A Chatterbait (AKA bladed jig or vibrating jig) is one of the most beloved "power fishing" lures in a bass angler’s arsenal. It combines the flash of a spinnerbait, the vibration of a crankbait, and ...

The Starting Spot Daily Bass Fishing Headlines are the perfect way to start your day with some of the top bass fishing articles on the internet. It’s the quick, informative, how, where, and who you ...

Autumn’s cooling water temperatures trigger movement in gamefish, including largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and walleyes. As temperatures drop, these species often relate to steeper-breaking areas.

From striped bass in New York and New Jersey to flounder in Maryland and Virginia, access is easy and the fishing is great.

New England fall is one of the best times to catch bass in Massachusetts as they look to fatten up before the long winter. But researchers are warning that striped bass are in trouble. Striped bass ...

Striped bass feed aggressively in the surf at night, and fall is the time to catch them on the New Jersey coast. Fishing at night for stripers in the surf requires know-how and research beyond just ...

These were the bass baits—and mindset shifts—that defined my 2025 season and helped me catch more and bigger largemouth bass.