When summer starts fading and the mornings turn crisp, a lot of bass fishermen automatically reach for bigger bait. That can be a mistake. As fall approaches, insects can become an increasingly important part of a bass's diet. And when bass are looking for bugs along the shoreline, a small, properly worked imitation can produce some surprisingly good fish. You don't need a tackle box full of fancy new lures. Sometimes the old ideas still work just fine. Fall Changes What Bass

There’s no good reason to watch a perfectly good herb garden disappear when the weather turns cold. If you grew rosemary, thyme, sage, oregano, basil, parsley, dill or other useful herbs this year, you already did the hard part. Now it’s time to put some of that harvest away for winter. Done right, a few hours of work during the growing season can leave you with jars, bags and freezer containers full of herbs for soups, roasts, stews, sauces and seasoning long after the garde

There was a time when nobody thought it was strange to cook outside in August. Before central air conditioning became standard, families had a simple way to keep the house from becoming an oven: move the hot cooking outdoors. That old idea still makes a lot of sense. If you've ever spent an August afternoon boiling jars of tomatoes, making a big pot of beans, grilling supper, or baking something in the oven, you know what happens. The kitchen heats up, the air conditioner run