Angela Perea at Lake Fayetteville Marina recommends using plastic worms, jig and pigs or spinner baits for black bass.

The end of the rod trembled a bit as I twitched the plastic worm through the water. The cast into the lily pads had landed with a light plop, and now I was guiding ...

Because our region is blessed with an abundance of great trout waters, many anglers from this area tend to forget the most popular gamefish in this country is the largemouth bass. Not only are ...

When it comes to hot weather bass fishing, my thoughts turn to plastic worms. The simple 6- or 7-inch plastic worm is often the most effective presentation in warm-water fishing. Like most things in ...

Back in the 60s, Nick Creame began marketing his plastic worms. They were the color of nightcrawlers and most of us fished them the same way. Bunched up on a hook, they really didn’t appeal to bass as ...

I remember when the first plastic worms, much like those we use today, hit the market. They were manufactured by the Creme Lure Company. While Nick Creme started his business in 1949, cooking worms in ...

Fishing with plastic worms for largemouth bass is both intense and relaxing. An angler using a plastic worm must get their mind and the plastic worm working together. Concentrating on the plastic worm ...

Bruce Darr shows a 35-pound striped bass he caught while fly fishing in early January in the Rocky Branch area of Beaver Lake ...

Striped bass fishing is best on the north end of the lake. Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said size varies day by day. Anglers report catching big stripers one day, smaller ones the ...

Innovations often come about by accident. It happened 65 years ago, when Nick Creme, an Akron, Ohio machinist, invented a game-changing fishing lure. Creme decided he was tired of digging for ...