Fishing Articles

As we continue to approach cold water fishing no bait has been more successful when the water temperatures are in the 40’s than jerk bait. It’s life-like bait that brings fish up from the 20 foot water when they are suspending in the coldest of days and coldest of water temperatures. ...

We reservoir smallmouth anglers are a weird lot. We dangle tiny little hair jigs under bobbers in air so cold ice forms in the guides of our rods. We think the best late fall fishing days feature leaden, low skies, light rain and highs in the 40s.

With Halloween ...

No, I am not talking about having a few stiff drinks while bobber fishing!
I am introducing you to a great technique to use the wind to help you get those super spooky shallow weed line... or shy rock pile walleyes.

I use a Bait Rigs Walleye Willospoon and ...

We are extremely close to fall fishing where we will make a drastic change in presentation; we will move from slow moving baits to power fishing with speed and reaction! Nothing works better and is more fun than moving a spinner bait over the grass that is eroding away from ...

The incredible weather so far this fall has many in Kentucky thinking about football, deer hunting, Keeneland and crappie fishing.

Crappie fishing?

Yes, crappie fishing. This may be the most consistent time of year to catch a species most ...

Follow the Bait Fish
As we move closer to the fall bite, one of the biggest tips I can give you is to follow the bait fish. The bait will move to the open bays and the bass will follow them as we move forward. Where the bait fish are the bass are there with them, they ...

Herds of buffalo roaming across Kentucky carved rudimentary roads into the Earth later used by the pioneers during the settlement period of our state's history. Many modern roads still roughly follow the paths carved by the huge bison as they made their way from stamping grounds ...

With cooler weather and shimmering fall days, the Fishing in Neighborhood (FINs) lakes are a great place to spend a gorgeous afternoon fishing lakes chock full of fish that are close to home for many Kentuckians.

"With our recent stockings of catfish and ...

When you approach new waters, or head to your favorite lake for the first time in several weeks the first obstacle to overcome is to find the fish. That old saying “ you got to fish where the fish are,” is very important, you can turn a day of fishing into a day of catching ...

We are approaching a time of year that one of the most critical things that people do wrong, when they have trouble catching fish, is how quickly you retrieve your bait while fishing! There are many ways to work a bait and certainly many of them require you to work them very ...

In early November several years ago, a then 14-year-old Montgomery County High School freshman named Sarah Terry fished for muskellunge on Cave Run Lake with her Dad on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. They fished hard without a single bite to show for their efforts.
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The Tournament of All Tournaments
On September 7 2013 Lake Guntersville hosted the biggest and best 5 fish amateur tournament we have seen in many years! It not only was a great forum for fishing but it was a meeting of quality amateur fisherman finding ways to catch big ...

As we move into more of a fall bite the bass start to vacate the deeper ledges, they follow the creeks and hang out in the flats, where the creeks meet at the tightest points. The key is locating the large groups of bait fish along the isolated flats. Not all the flats are created ...

If you are a river or stream angler, this past spring and summer has filled your belly with enough frustration to pull your hair out by the handful.

Mother Nature greeted every stream fishing trip you planned for the upcoming weekend by rudely parking a heavy ...

With the increase amounts of money showing up in tournaments, and the increased pressure to win even the smallest of tournaments the local tournament trials in Florida are concerned with a practice called “Baiting of Brush Piles.” A practice that fisherman is using to attract ...