Hot weather and long days are great for kayaking, but tough for bass fishing. Warm water and bright sun put largemouth and ...

For example, the Zara Spook remains a staple in bass angler’s tackle boxes while the Crazy Crawler and Lucky 13, Heddon’s original creations, are still being marketed today.

A Heddon Bass Oreno, first made in 1910, is pretty much a collector's item today. I'll wager it'll still catch bass as well as any lure old or new.

See what our bass fishing expert labels as the best bass lures of all time. ... Meanwhile, in Michigan, James Heddon began carving fishing lures from broomstick handles in the 1890s, ...

The Heddon Tiny Torpedo is a terrific choice. ... Here are the 7 best smallmouth bass lures, according to our experts, and how to fish them.

Harbin would later write a book titled Heddon Historical Footprints in which he details where each of the eight frogs ended up. Today, it is believed that one of them is held in the Bass Pro Shops ...

To understand bass behavior, it pays to understand the habits of their forage — shad, bluegill, crawfish and the like. Increasingly, ... like the Heddon Meadow Mouse. Others were just surface lures ...

Old-time lures that still catch fish include Heddon Bass Oreno (from left), Fred Arbogast Jitterbug, Cotton Cordell Crazy Shad. They're pictured next to a vintage Ambassadeur 5500C reel.