If you’re like me, you love to topwater fish for bass in the late summer and early fall. Bass are active during this period and on the hunt, and a topwater bait can be an entertaining and effective ...

They are after big, bruising fish. And no way of catching is more fun than getting them to attack a topwater lure, known as a popper, in a fearsome boil. Such blow-ups by 40-pound fish can make short ...

Catching fish on top-water lures can be so exciting that some anglers would rather catch one fish on a top-water than two or three down deep. Lures that splash and dance across the surface are ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...