Fishing Articles

As always, the hot summer can be very discouraging; not only is it hot but it seems the grass nats can drive you crazy and there are big gapes of time between bites! When it is hot, and the sun is bearing down on you the only thing that takes your mind off the conditions is ...

Sometimes you can just have too many places to fish, too many way points and too many miles of water to travel to get there; don’t try to fish everyone. If you’re not finding fish when that happens you should think about what you have been doing, what type of structure, depth ...

At the age of 5 through 7 this was my power house! It was 31/2 horsepower outboard Evinrude motor. It had a two-blade propeller that thrust it forward at least 5 to 8 knots. My boat was a 12 foot wooden row boat. Yes, it leaked like a sieve! However, even as a young child, ...

If there one thing you can count on in fall fishing on a regular basis is clear water, the reason being is generally we do not see a lot of rain; TVA does not pull much current and the water oxygen level is concentrated in different areas of the lake. As the thickness of the ...

Landing big bass at Lake Millwood is hard enough in the daytime, but imagine fighting a monster like this at night. For Mike Siefert of Lake Millwood Guide Service, fighting big bass at night is one of the most exciting things about summer.
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No bait in the bass fishing world requires more thought than fishing a top water bait; it really doesn’t matter which top water bait your fishing with if it fishes on top then you must put some thought into what your doing. The key is to try and emulate something being chased ...

With all the talk this year at the 2019 I-Cast on 10 to 1 reels and how your fishing will improve I thought I would give you my thoughts on how reel speed really affects you in bass fishing; is a reel gathering 42 inches of line in one turn of the handle really a benefit or ...

The biggest change in fall changes occurs more in how the largemouth bass changes their habits, where they go, why they move, more than any time of the year. Bass will more often follow the forage or bait fish than any other time of year; this can make them harder to locate ...

When the fish move to the shallows as we approach the fall this time of year, one good never fail presentation to catch them on is fishing a Carolina Rig. There are however some very important rigging keys that will make a difference. Pay close attention as to how you rig it, ...

As the summer heats up and the bass get tougher to find the chase to find those lunker fish on a southern lake gets tougher and tougher; the key is what do you do to accomplish this! There is no easy answer, but I do have some suggestions that will get you closer to the bigger ...

When the summertime hits most of us that love to fish the deep ledges, enjoy the challenge of deep cranking baiting; it’s a technique that has challenged the best of fisherman and will continue. There are however many keys to making a day deep successful; but its not easy and ...

Captain Kathy Brown of Miss Judy Charters is holding up a nice king mackerel, which would definitely classify as a silver king!




This is a true story about the great unknown “Silver King.” Don’t go running to your identification book for this ...

One pattern you can generally bet the farm that will occur is occurring now on the lake is the schooling bass. If you want to have a ton of fun and don’t care about size chasing schooling bass can be the pattern you might be looking for. With the bait balls continuing to grow ...

Bass fishing is a different animal when it comes to catching fish, no other type of fishing can compare as most other types of fish bite to eat something and feed where bass respond and strike. When it comes to catching bass I always tell my customers if your going to be a good ...

When you fish a lake like Guntersville enough sometimes you just must do the obvious fish the grass lines; although not all grass lines are created equal, as not all have active fish. As you move up and down Guntersville or any grass lake there are active grass edges from ledge ...