The brushy point sloped amid tangles of green and grey into Mexico's Lake El Salto. The boat slinked into position and the heavy, two-handed rod flexed, spooking an irritable blue heron and scattering ...

How do you catch 19 pounds of largemouth bass on a single cast? Just ask Grady Codd of Fort Worth, Texas, who was fishing Mexico’s famed Lake El Salto last December. Using an Alabama rig, Codd reeled ...

You go to Mexico's Lake El Salto for the big hit, the biggest bass of your life. The rest is incidental -- rewarding, but secondary to the primary pursuit. Following our first day of fishing, as Rene ...

All around the boat, Lake El Salto was waking up. A purple glow seeped over the Sierra Madres, turning the lake’s surface into a puddle of ink. Tropical birds stirred along the bank, whooping like ...

It was raining when Zach and I hit the water on El Salto this morning. Maybe that's what changed our luck. We started out fishing the same spot where we'd hooked big bass yesterday, and I was glad we ...

The numbers were staggering, but not surprising and too be honest not that unusual. An estimated 600 bass in four days of fishing. Put it another way, about 1,800 pounds of fish were lifted into the ...

Travel instructions for this outdoor adventure are simple enough. Fly to Mazatlan, Mexico. See the ocean. Then head inland. OK, indulge yourself first by spending a few days in the port city, renowned ...

Steve Knight fights a Lake Picachos bass, one of about 50 that he caught that day. Picachos is the newest of three great bass fishing lakes on Mexico s west coast.(Special Contributor) It was cool in ...

“A plastic worm is the most universal bait a fisherman can have in his tacklebox,” said Joe Thomas, former Bassmaster Tournament pro and host of Stihl’s Reel in the Outdoors. He and the other ...

James Shaw Robinson and James E. Rawlins migrated from England to Hanford, near Fresno, in 1878 with their wives, Ethel and Margaret. Seeking a coastal site for a summer retreat, the two families ...