2013 Articles

Have you ever seen a professional athlete that was not just beaming over with confidence; you must believe in yourself and your process to be a good fisherman. It is no different whether you are a fisherman, football player, or a computer repair person, no matter what you do ...

It is hard to believe you needed a jacket for an evening outdoor barbeque on the weekend after the Preakness Stakes, but you did this year.

This past spring was one of the coolest in memory. ...

With the school year quickly coming to an end, the boat traffic on the lake will pick up by leaps and bounds, not only will the fisherman be on the lake but so will the pleasure boaters. There will be jet skis, pleasure boats , water skiers and fisherman all looking for the ...

When water temperatures warm into the 70s, it's catfish time across Kentucky.

"Late May and June is the prime time for catching catfish from reservoirs, small lakes, rivers and farm ponds," said Gerry Buynak, assistant director of fisheries at the ...

James Harrod and a company of men launched their canoes in May of 1774 from old Redstone Fort on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania, bound for the spring-rich meadow land of central Kentucky.
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I have an old friend who was reluctant to go wading in streams for smallmouth bass for many years.

"The fish are too small," he said.
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It flows through the heart of Kentucky for some 255 miles from the confluence of the North and South forks at Beattyville to the Ohio River at Carrollton.

The Kentucky River is a scenic waterway with numerous quiet backwaters and tree-shaded tributary streams. ...

After a busy spring on the lake, many tournaments have just pushed the fish with big baits as anglers look for that winning sack; I submit that you downsize and fish a small grub and watch the numbers of fish you catch increase substantially. The bass are beat up, the Alabama ...

Over the many years of fishing bass that are bedding there are many beliefs that just don’t hold water, no pun intended! I don’t know how many people call me and tell me that they want to come fishing but want to make sure they miss the bedding time; they believe the bass will ...

It is worm time of year and no bait offers so many different presentations as does fishing a worm; you can fish it so many different ways that you never get board. In fact I believe that a lot of today’s new baits were born out of the many different ways a worm has been fished ...

Since Paul Elias won the FLW on Guntersville no bait has caught more big fish or won more tournaments than the A-rig. The combination of a cluster bait on an umbrella look rig coupled with swim baits and flash has just become deadly. It was said that the bass just can’t help ...

Breaking Down the A-Rig
The craze of the A-Rig has spread to other parts of the country with Oklahoma being the latest with a state record bass of 14.13 lbs. caught on the A-Rig. There has also been several fish on Guntersville caught over 10 lbs. recently with one over ...

Over the many years of watching Lake Guntersville change I have seen many abrupt changes occur on the lake. The most prevalent thing that stands out to me is the lack of small fish, hence the lack of bites! A good day on the lake has gone from 30 to 40 fish a day to 8 or 10 ...

Female smallmouth bass in lakes such as Laurel River Lake, Green River Lake, Lake Cumberland and Kentucky Lake grow hungry in early spring as water temperatures slowly warm to 50 degrees. The water temperatures in these lakes range from the mid to high 40s right now.
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As winter begins to lose its grip, striped bass in Lake Cumberland are on the move.

"We have threadfin shad, gizzard shad and alewives in Lake Cumberland," said Benjy Kinman, deputy commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, and an avid striper angler. "Stripers are keying on bait so they could be anywhere, at any depth."
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