Cold water or winter fishing can be about finding the right targets. I can go back to my childhood and recall a statement I have learned to live bye as a professional fisherman, that being in the mist of winter fishing “the bass move to hard targets” like rock, bridges, or wood in the coldest… Read more »
Thanks to some great work by Professional Angler Chris Lane, Guntersville will get some much-needed addition of Florida strain bass, as a restocking program will see its first year of hopefully many trying to regain the prominence of the past with 50,000 Florida Strain bass starting this May. I cannot tell you how important this… Read more »
If I have learned anything about North Alabama in the winter, I have realized that in the winter we get a lot of rain causing the lake to get muddy; causing water to over-run many docks and putting TVA in a position where they spill most of the winter from one dam to another. Creating… Read more »
Every year as we move to this transition time where the bass are staging a lot prior to the spawn and it seems difficult to get a consistent bite the Carolina rig comes into play. It’s the kind of bait that has much more versatility than most people imagine, you just have to be creative… Read more »
No month of the year offers as much of a variety of ways to catch fish on Guntersville as does the month of March. As we dip into the month of March there is no presentation that you cannot have success with, the bass are hungry, they are feeding up for the spawn and what… Read more »
If your goal is to catch big fish; I believe you must fish baits that attract big fish. What you fish with matters, size matter and how you present your bait matters. Winter slowly moves on it changes many things about fishing and is a time of year where size catches size; at no time… Read more »
Every year as we get prepared for spring break and many of the new boaters start out on their first endeavor to launch their boat for the first time the horror of holidays past start appearing in my thoughts. Holidays seem to bring out problems and as they approach their first outing something happens on… Read more »
One thing you will be able to count on in 2021 is the pure fact that our lakes will become more and more crowed every year; there will be no exceptions. The pandemic, the popularity growth and the increasing population will add fishermen every year to the already crowded lakes for the popular sport of… Read more »
As we move into February one thing you can count on is plenty of rain in this part of the country! That said we can expect some extremely high-water conditions and days with strong current to drive the fish out off, the deeper edges of the channel. These heavy rains will cause muddy conditions, water… Read more »
As we get deeper into the rattle trap bite, I thought I would spend some time talking in detail as to the many ways to work a rattle trap. The way I like the most is referred to as yo-yoing the trap. It also has many ways to do what is referred to as yo-yoing… Read more »