What with all the rain we have had this summer, many of our lakes are going to be off color. Bass are then going to have a hard time seeing the lure tossed at them. How about appealing to them through ...

Scents make fish bite better — or wrinkle their noses and swim for cover. After all, there are good scents and bad scents. Great work has been done to find fish-attracting scents and market them. For ...

Dr. Juice was sitting at the dining room table in his home on the shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, describing the trials and tribulations of his latest research as he prepared for a fishing trip to ...

It was spring of 1989 when my father and I perused the sporting goods section at Wal-Mart where small-town fishermen like us bought tackle. Being a youngster easily influenced by colorful marketing of ...

The effect of colors and scents on the success or failure of fishing is a long-standing argument. Some anglers believe fish are color blind. Others believe artificial ...

Does applying a commercially prepared scent to lures and bait make sense? Do oils, brines and gels actually help to put more fish in the bag? Or are these products just another way to hook anglers ...

Back in the good ol? days we often ?slimed? our t rouser legs after catching fish to wipe off our hands. Besides being convenient, we found that it also helped hide the smell of gas, oil, tobacco, or ...