Fishing Articles

A lot of fisherman may ask what is a float and fly. And this is a good question. The float and fly is winter time bass fishing system that will catch large mouth and small mouth bass. This form of fishing was born on the deep clear cool waters of one of the greatest small mouth ...

Every year the bass fishing industry comes out with the newest hot bait, or the bait and presentation that will change the industry. We have seen this phenomenon in past years go from the likes of swim baits, and Senko’s to big jigging spoons plus many more. In the last couple ...

As I pulled my boat up to the ramp at Lake Cumberland on that cold, windy late December day. The thoughts running through my mind ranged from where I should start fishing to how long I could brave the cold weather.With the air temps in the low 30's and the wind chill dipping ...

There is nothing like an old fishing buddy. One that will always be ready to go fishing when you can. These kind of buddy's are the ones that you will always want to have around. But I want to tell you about a different type of a buddy you can fish with it a bait called a silver ...

The Most Forgotten Winter Bait

Often in the winter we get in a slump and get discouraged because you can’t get a bite. There’s an ole-timers bait that many of us have forgotten about and one that will produce a variety of bites besides the species we are after. ...

Over time there has been no better way to catch big fish than to get to the ledges and find a pattern that is successful. Guntersville has over the years offered some of the best ledge fishing in the country during the hot “dog days.” Most people however really do not understand ...

There are times in fishing that fish will relate or hold on to or close to cover or certain types of structure. During this time of late winter this holds true as bass will hold on the edge of areas like steep drop off banks, channel edges, bluffs or cliff lines and standing ...

It’s the time of year that the bass are hanging in the stumps as they are looking for hard bottom area’s to finish the spawning process. A unique way to fish these areas is to pull rattle baits or crank baits through the stumps. Doing this requires some finesse fishing with ...

In bass fishing the fishing seasons are broken up into three main seasons. The pre spawn the spawn and the post spawn. The pre spawn is the early spring season when the water starts to warm and the bass move from their deeper water wintering holes and move into the shallows ...

In the past few weeks we have had a lot of rain and it has caused the lakes to raise several feet above summer pool. But most of our area lakes are pretty well at or close to normal. From what I have seen the color of the water at Carr Creek lake has a very good color and should ...

The water level of Carr creek lake was almost up to summer pool last week and the water had a good color to it. I had received reports from several crappie fisherman that the crappie fishing was doing good and some nice crappie was being caught. A lot of crappie was starting ...

It's the time of year that a lot of small mouth bass fisherman look forward to each year. The time when the air temps are cold and the water temps reaches that magical 48 to 53 degree range. This may sound like a cold time of the year and it is, but to a small mouth bass angler ...

This is the time that the bass will start coming up shallow and close to the bank during certain times of the day and during certain weather conditions. What this really means is that early and late in the day and at night the bass will use the cover of darkness to move to shallow ...

It looks like the early winter fishing season is here. With the cooling down of the air and water temp it changes the way that we must fish to be successful. The way that you fished several weeks ago and caught fish, probably would not produce fish now using the same baits and ...

This is a time of year that a lot of bass anglers look forward to. The reason is because the water has been cooling down for some time now and the water levels on most lakes are dropping to winter pool. This does several things to bass fishing. First the water cooling down will ...