Fishing with topwater lures isn’t the only way to catch white bass, but many would argue that it’s the most exciting. One friend of mine described this type of fishing as “a sensory overdose.” You see ...

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

A little rain can bring an attitude adjustment for anglers looking forward to catching walleye and white bass during their spawning runs. Mike McBride at the Lake Sequoyah bait shop was acting hang ...

The river was up and ugly as Texas rivers tend to get when a good late-winter or early-spring rain sends a slug of sediment-rich runoff down the channel. But when we maneuvered the boat out of the ...

Anglers are eager for an uptick in fishing as spring nears, but Jon Conklin, fishing guide, said the bite is spotty for all species. Recent rain has raised water levels in the White and War Eagle ...

A simple silver spinner is one of many lures that feeding white bass will smash. (Doug Newhoff/correspondent) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be ...

Donald Hornick is, by his own admission, "absolutely crazy about fishing for white bass." The 52-year-old Houstonian even makes and sells a few white bass lures — heavy, "slab" spoons used to jig for ...

Feb. 27—AUSTIN — The annual white bass run, a treasured tradition for anglers across Texas, has officially begun. Each spring, white bass run upstream from reservoirs into rivers and creeks to spawn, ...

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO This female white bass measured 17 inches and weighed 2 1/2 pounds. It was listed for several days last week as the largest white bass caught from the Nueces River until George Moff ...

As February crawls along, hundreds of thousands of winter-weary freshwater anglers focus their hopes on a fish that blessedly busts these depressing doldrums. “The white bass are here! And they’re ...