Fishing Articles

If you can’t stand the cold, you may want to bundle up, grin and bear it and slip on a pair of Gloves. It’s cold, but the fish are biting within 10 Miles of the Beach. And, the best part of the deal? You can make the ride in less than ideal conditions when fishing on close in ...

A small lake, compared to the other giants among the Tennessee River System. Yet Wilson Lake is only small in size. This old impoundment has yielded many records, including the previous world record smallmouth bass, weighing 10 pounds 8 ounces, caught in 1950. Only 15,930 surface ...

Alabama's second largest lake can be downright tough when bass come off the beds in May. Searching out all 68,300 surface acres on Wheeler lake for summertime bass can be awful intimidating on such a huge impoundment.

There are lake headwaters, that offer cool, ...

Smallmouth Bass dominated the springtime Bassmasters TOP 150 tournament on Pickwick Lake in 1999. In 2000, the Bassmasters Eastern Invitational showed the biggest bag of bass brought to the scales, over the course of the three day event, were smallmouths. However, largemouth’s ...

DAY: If fishing during hot weather you, like the bass, are looking for cooler places on the water. On Weiss Lake you have many selections for this preference during the doggish days of summer. You can fish deeper, on main-lake ledges with deep-diving crankbaits, rattletraps ...

DAY: There is upriver Neely Henry and there is downriver Neely Henry. Practically two different bodies of water, if they were not joined where the lake narrows at Gadsden City launch. When fishing during the week water generation is usually going off and on both at night and ...

DAY: Not many Coosa River Lakes get as little fishing pressure as Mitchell lake during the summer, that is during the day. As a matter of fact, there are probably more anglers fishing at night than during the day on Mitchell lake. This small lake on the lower Coosa river has ...

DAY: If we have little rain (like most summers) the fishing can be affected by water clarity. Lake Martin gets very clear (especially downriver) to a point of 5-10 foot visibility. Bass feed by sight and fooling them often involves downsizing lures and fishing a little deeper ...

DAY: Another Coosa River recreational lake, but not quite as bad as upriver Logan Martin Lake, Lay Lake can still produce quality bass during the scorching days of summer. Bass tournaments are held here every week throughout the summer including some weekly night tournaments. ...

DAY: Looking for bass on Jordan lake during the summer depends on many factors, one is water generation. There are many spotted bass and largemouth’s that depend on this man-made current to bring the food to them. Some bass travel to the lakes headwaters in search of food and ...

DAY: When the temperature rises in mid-eastern Alabama the fishing gets hot at Lake Harris. Wedowee, Alabama is the closest town near this first impoundment at the headwaters of the Big and Little Tallapoosa Rivers. What this impoundment means to the angler (and to the bass)is ...

Guntersville Lake, near the town of Guntersville, Al has survived the test of time...and man. Impounded in 1939 after 4 years of dam construction, this tremendous weed fishery has undergone meaningless, various ways by man to eradicate the hydrilla and millfoil aquatic weeds ...

DAY: When it gets hot your fishing may suffer if you are not a river angler when fishing the old Warrior River near the town of Demopolis in south Alabama. The small pockets and backwater flats become to hot for most bass to be comfortable with. There are some feeder creeks ...

For those of you who love to Float and Fly Fish, don't put those rods and reels away just yet. There is some great fishing in the spring and summer for BIG bluegill on clear Tennessee Mountain Reservoirs and I am sure on other lakes around the country.

I recently ...

Introduction

Every week when I'm on the water I see younger and younger folks launching their boats. 30-40 years ago that was me. Just seems like yesterday. Not that I have all the answers, but over these past years I have learned some things the hard way. Like ...