Fishing Articles

The summer heat changes where the bass locate and catching them in their deep summer locations can be tough. If your into summer time fishing you know that when the heat sets in the bass move to the deep water and getting down there and presenting a bait can be tough fishing ...

With California Chrome set to chase history in the Belmont Stakes this coming weekend, the stream smallmouth fishing season is in full bloom.

A late spring following a brutally cold winter caused some hit and miss stream smallmouth fishing this past spring. With ...

A day spent catching fish from the bank of a pond or lake will hook a novice angler and entertain the most experienced one.

May traditionally offers good opportunities for anglers as fish move shallow to spawn - and into easy casting range.

“If you’re ...

It appears to me that the sport of fishing is reaching new highs in respect to the number of people fishing in the country; more boats, more fishermen and more fish being caught than ever before. I believe that we are headed to the fishing industry reaching markets we have never ...

As we have moved through time in the last many years I constantly get reminded that the fishing industry has changed drastically; I am not sure it has all been good, but it for sure has changed. We have entered a time in the fishing world where there has just been an abundant ...

Research indicates a condition similar to “the bends” in divers likely played a role in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Asian carp in two western Kentucky rivers last month.

The die-off of invasive silver carp happened in the Cumberland River below Lake Barkley dam and Tennessee River below Kentucky Lake dam.

“Preliminary results show they’ve ...

Back in the time when Elvis swept through the nation like a prairie fire and cars had fins, the Watterson Expressway in Louisville was a two-lane bypass and possessed sidewalks.

Floyd’s Fork Creek seemed way out in the country then, surrounded by pasture lands ...

As many of you knew from my last report, I was on the road this past week with my lovely wife attending the Southeast Outdoor Press Association's annual conference in Southwest Louisiana, so my traditional fishing report is more of a travel yarn this week. I missed being on ...

There’s nothing that goes together with post spawn fish better than fishing a big worm on drops, edges and points. It’s been a fishing fact for many years when the bass move off the beds and start spreading the lake the oldest and most fished presentation is still Texas rigging ...

“The City of Scottsboro has done great work improving City Park – new parking, new docks, wifi, it’s a very nice facility for all to use. Certainly parking our rigs and leaving them unattended brings its own set of risks.” Risks that can be minimized and we all can play a part ...

Dale Wilson cast a black spinner bait embellished with a split-tail pork eel trailer into Wood Creek Lake and started working it back to the boat with lifts and drops.
Lurking in about 5 feet of water near the base of a boulder, a largemouth bass found the lure and presentation ...

As we work our way through the spawn we start to see post spawn fish show up all over the lake; to me this can be the best time of year for many reasons. I believe that the post spawn fish are easier to catch than any time of year. The bass are aggressive the healing females ...

The wild striped bass in a ginger and red wine sauce at a restaurant in New York City runs $135 before gratuity. At a Japanese restaurant in the same city, a dinner of sushi costs nearly $600 per person.
These are some of the highest rated and expensive restaurants in ...

As we move to the spawn most fishermen forget that some of the best action and fun you can have is fishing a SPRO frog around weeds and lay downs on the edges of the banks. I know it’s hard to believe but some of the best action during the spawn comes on top! There is however ...

Time on the water has proven many things over the years I have been fishing; nothing has become more prevalent than the ability to catch fish on some very specific structure and a very specific spot. Many areas of your lake can qualify as hot spots the issue is finding these ...