Top-water lures, plastic worms or jig and pigs are the best lures. Bluegill and redear fishing is good with worms. Catfish are biting all types of catfish bait.

Good choices are plastic worms, tube baits, spinner baits or top-water lures. Illinois River Stroud recommends using tube baits or any soft plastic lure for black bass.

Reese Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers said some good black bass fishing takes place at night with big plastic worms or spinner baits in dark colors. Try top-water lures at first and last ...

Stroud recommends using tube baits or swim baits for black bass. Tiny Torpedo top-water lures or black buzz baits are good to use. Elk River Big Elk Floats and Camping said the river is floatable.

Fishing columnist Jordan Rodriguez breaks down panfish jigs—a versatile lure every angler should keep in stock.

Crappie and bluegill are hitting small tube jigs on a 1/16-ounce lead head fished on four-pound test line. In the next few weeks consider a floating worm for bass and sponge spiders on fly rods ...

Tube jigs come in many sizes, from micro-size ½-inch lures for panfish, to extra-large 4-inch lures for northern pike, musky and a host of saltwater species.

Bluegill have small mouths, so I like to fish micro jigs and cranks when targeting them (although my buddy Randal recently caught a huge bluegill on a 3-inch bass tube — go figure.) ...

Bluegill and redear sunfish (center) are two of the panfish that can be found in backwater lakes along the Columbia River. (Terry Otto/The Columbian) Photo Gallery The canoe was not working.