It would be easy to assume that with such a variety of species swimming in the bays and inshore waters of the U.S. you’d need a book to cover the best saltwater lures. That couldn’t be more untrue.

“Yeah,” said the charter boat captain, “I’d like to have three dozen of those. Can you have then to me in two weeks?” My longtime friend and fellow angler, Jim Reeves, was at a bit of a loss for words ...

The craft of making fishing lures is a surprisingly secretive one: Traditions are passed down through families, each tight-lipped about the methods of their art. So Ron Mirabile set out some years ago ...

Freshwater anglers have lots of topwater options. In the bass game especially, those looking for surface eruptions can dip into practically any lure genre and find the perfect bait to call up a hog.

As I pored over the dozens of lures that I’ve accumulated in my umpteen years of fishing several thoughts seemed to surface. Looking at the old lures brings back memories of their sources and how they ...

Up until the late 1990s, only Slidell-area locals knew who Dudley Vandenborre was. He was the dude who always caught such big speckled trout in Lake Pontchartrain using a soft-plastic lure he designed ...