Fishing Articles

Prized for their fight and flavor, catfish are readily available in Kentucky waters and can be caught on a wide assortment of baits.

A gob of nightcrawlers, cut bait, commercial stink bait, hot dogs, uncooked shell-on shrimp or scraps of chicken marinated in strawberry-flavored ...

Nothing is more fun than getting a deep school of fish competing for your crank bait, when your running crank baits 20 ft. down you can make magic happen you just have to be creative. Creative crank baiting is just easy to do, you just have to imagine what that bait is doing ...

I know most folks are well aware of the increase in the number of fishermen on the water; the numbers of people fishing has really exploded in the last couple of years is really an understatement! The thing about it is; the expansion of the fishing industry is just starting ...

May is a special time for anglers who chase redear sunfish and bluegill as they move into the shallows to spawn.

“I think we still might be a week or so from the peak for redear fishing,” said Maj. Shane Carrier, assistant director of law enforcement for the Kentucky ...

An extended stretch of stable weather and seasonably warm temperatures in late April created optimal spring fishing conditions for anglers across Kentucky.

The calm broke at the end of the month when rounds of storms over a period of days preceded a cold front. ...

May is a special time for anglers who chase redear sunfish and bluegill as they move into the shallows to spawn.

“I think we still might be a week or so from the peak for redear fishing,” said Maj. Shane Carrier, assistant director of law enforcement for the Kentucky ...

With all the change in the lake we have seen this year, record numbers of fishermen, water temperatures going up and down; and a spawn that was hardly recognizable the one constant has been top water action! Yes believe it or not even the early frog bite was constant all you ...

There is no doubt that a swim bait can be used for many different types of cover, techniques and patterns but there are some targets that I like to focus on when fishing a swim bait. Targets that I like are really different types of cover or bottom changes that make an area ...

As we move into some transition time of year, there are fish in all phases of the water column; they are shallow, transition depths and deep. The problem becomes which ones do you target and what type of presentation works while they move into and out of these stages of depths. ...

When you’re on the water fishing several days a week you get to experience many of the natural elements that affect the fishing; none so important as the water level of the impoundment your fishing. Many things affect the water level, of course the most natural is the rain and ...

The grass is the deep forest green that only reveals itself in early spring. Keeneland opens this week and the Kentucky Derby is not far away.

It is early April in Kentucky and the fish are biting all over the state.

“I caught a limit of striped ...

Little Miss Judy’s Believe It or Not Story!

While bottom fishing at the Gulf Stream the first time I ever caught a not so big soap fish I immediately threw it in my live well so that it could hopefully survive! I, at first thought it was a juvenile grouper. After ...

As everyone loves competition, and those who have competed with the best in many of the local and regional fishing tournaments have an inner voice telling you to try it on the big stage; the thought of being a professional always pops up. That voice in the back of your head ...

Boat motor companies have made strong efforts in the past few years to solve the ethanol problem being produced by E10 gasoline, most of their effort has been to no avail as problems continue. The real issue is the weekend boater that might use his boat just a few times a year, ...

The saddest part of the coming summer season is that the beautiful loons that have been here throughout the winter and spring months will soon disappear until next fall. With the possible exception of bird watchers, it wasn’t until the movie, “On Golden Pond”, that most people ...