2002 and Prior

Having fished most of the so-called "premier" rivers in Montana and Colorado, I can honestly say that we have it better here in Kentucky.

The Cumberland River, from the Wolf Creek Dam downstream to the Tennessee line, is as good as trout fishing gets. ...

Chuck and wind, chuck and wind, chuck and wind, chuck and wind, ooh there's one, aww *%#@!

You have just experienced muskie madness, an exercise in patience, or is it an exercise in insanity? This question can only be answered by those who have put forth the hours ...

I recently wrote about Crappie fishing at Kentucky Lake and now it's the Bass's turn. I just got off the phone with a good friend, Dave Schultnicht of Louisville, who fished Kentucky Lake all of last week. In Dave's words "Fantastic". He and his partner boated over ...

One of the Most frustrating and painstaking tasks for a successful striper trip is harvesting and keeping the right bait healthy. Many times after several hours and hundreds of throws with a cast net, many fishermen are asking themselves "is this worth the effort? I thought ...

Stripers get no respect. Often overlooked and sometimes shunned, this species grows large, they are strong fighters, wide spread throughout the United States and one of the finest eating fish that swims. The average striper is eight to 18 pounds. Trophies up to 40 pounds are ...

Winter will soon be coming to an end and the onset of spring will be upon us. For many area sportsmen this means it is time to get on the water for some early spring bassin'.

As water temperatures begin to rise, bass begin to shake off the effects of winter doldrums. ...

Angler Scott Duclos of Santa Rosa, CA, caught the fish of a lifetime on March 1, 1997.



Duclos landed a potential world record Largemouth bass on 75 acre Spring Lake, on the outskirts of Santa Rosa. The problem is, he released it without getting official ...

Officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources face some tough decisions in the near future. Resident hunting and fishing license sales have steadily declined since 1988, and there is concern on behalf the department.
Since 1988, sales of resident ...

OK, its late February, or early March, its 30 degrees out and hunting season is over. You're about to go nuts if you don't go fishing soon. The only option is to go for that remote and tune in to the Saturday morning line up of fishing shows. If you can't go yourself, at least ...

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Little Secrets. Autumn is traditionally a time for hunting, but it can be a costly mistake to rack your fishing tackle just because squirrels and doves are in season and bow hunters are deer scouting. The action can be too rewarding to ignore!

If you're trying to ...

The cork, which originally closed a vinegar jug, snapped out of sight leaving only two bubbles circling the sudden undertow. The green cotton line popped as tight as the string on Roy Acuff's fiddle the water to the right. The tip of the sycamore shoot which had become a fishing ...

March 1993

Are you one of Kentucky's many bass anglers? If so you'll be glad to know that Kentucky's newest lake, Yatesville (a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' lake), impounded in 1991, is being managed for black bass by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife ...