I bought my first Arbogast Jitterbug at the Western Auto in downtown Bardstown well before my 10th birthday. I had no idea about what made a good color choice, so I bought the one that looked the ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. -- I bought my first Arbogast Jitterbug at the Western Auto in downtown Bardstown, Ky., well before my 10th birthday. I had no idea about what made a good color choice, so I bought the ...

In August and early September I have enjoyed some of the best top-water fishing I can recall, with nothing more than a casting reel, my old johnboat and an old-fashioned jitterbug lure and a headlamp.

After last week’s column on jitterbug fishing at night in streams, I had a couple of readers complain that they were unable to paddle a canoe and spend the night on a gravel bar, and wanted to know if ...

Sometimes, the tried and true methods of catching fish are the best ones. The fishing lure industry brought in $5.8 billion a year in 2013, according to the American Sportfishing Association, but it’s ...

After my last column, which featured a reader from New York reminiscing about the Arbogast Jitterbug, I’ve received several more fishing stories about peoples’ favorite lures that I’d like to run in ...