Fishing Articles

Early Spring Changes


When I hit the water in early spring, I generally start looking for what might be different from other similar days this same time of year. Where has the grass beds moved too? What has changed in depth of shell beds? How did the winter ...

The most professional athletes in all sports always have confidence in their ability to win and be the best at what they do. Fishing is no different, you must go to the water with the confidence that you can be successful and have some fun while doing it. Have you ever seen ...

As we progress to the end of the year and the holidays start to make us think of the past, present, and future I find as Thanksgiving approaches that we as fishermen have plenty to be thankful for! It’s really easy to get caught up in the day you caught your personal best, but ...

It’s the time of year where you must be aware of the surroundings, all the natural signs mean something in the late fall. Birds diving, bait popping, loons diving, moon phases, water temperature and more add up to what you must make yourself aware of to have a successful day ...

This time of year, when your trying to control the depth of your moving bait presentation, the angle at which you hold your rod tip can be the difference of being in the strike zone or not. Believe it or not most baits respond to your rod tip angle very easily, if it pointed ...

When you get in your boat in middle to late December on a cold winter fishing day you start to wonder where do I start? You look out over the lake and there is no visible grass, there is no obvious structure and your mind says where do I start and how can I put some fish in ...

Every time I get someone in my boat that has something to say about the electronics, they utilize on their boats there is a mixed bag of opinions; we here some good some bad and some ugly. The truth is no matter what manufacturer you choose there is many ways it is viewed by ...

Somewhere between July and August 1967 I was contacted and asked if I would teach Miss Savannah how to ski! At the time, I was working at the (hotel) Savannah Inn as a water ski instructor. Some might know the hotel on Wilmington Island as the Sheraton. Then there are some ...

There’s probably no time of year that fishermen struggle more than they do during the fall and every lake is different as why this occurs. The reasons are many just like the lakes are all different, deep water lakes set up differently than do shallow lakes and grassy lakes are ...

Over the many years I have been fishing for a living baits seem to come and go like your favorite meals do. One year the bite is strong on a certain bait the next you can’t get a fish to hit it. The traditional jig at least for me has been going through this now for several ...

As we progress into the fall, we will see plenty of water temperature change some of it will be positive for the fall bite and some will not. Determining the effect on your bite will have a lot to do with what the temperature is, how much it drops and how quickly the temperature ...

The craze of the A-Rig has spread to all parts of the country with pros making videos of big fish being caught on the A-rig all over the country. Major League fishing keeping it on the approved lure list and smaller circuits using it as a big-time fish catcher. If you watch ...

“Little Miss Judy’s Believe It or Not!”


I published this story on January 22, 2006 after the passing of my long time friend Kitty Strozier. Kitty was a long time resident of Tybee Island, Georgia. She had a wonderful soul! Believe me time flies much too ...

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 ...