The Crush City Freeloader and Mooch Minnow have stolen all the bass fishing headlines, and rightly so. But don’t sleep on this amazing new craw bait design, especially when you’re not scoping fish.

The best chatterbait trailers make a dominant lure even better. When this category of lures — now referred to generically as “vibrating jigs” — first burst onto the scene in the mid-2000s, anglers ...

It didn’t hurt that his years of excellence coincided with a massive shift in the quality of lines, hooks and other gear. When Martens began his professional career in the 1990s, braid had just come ...