1. In Lakeland, crickets and grass shrimp are being sold like crazy as shellcracker have been hot. On Saddle Creek, look for catfish using chicken liver and cut bait. Bass have been hitting on darker ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Tenoroc, bass fishing was best on lakes Coronet, Half-Moon, Horseshoe, Legs, Lost Lake West, Shop, 3, 10, A, C and G. Lakes Butterfly, Fishhook, Legs, 2, 4, 5 and B also had high ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Tenoroc, the bass bite was best this week at lakes Fishhook, Shop, Waterloo, Wetland, A, B, C, F, 3, 4 and 10. Lakes Cemetery, 2 and 5 also had catch rates worth noting. This ...

Among our native fish species, two are standouts — bluegill, or bream, and redear sunfish, or shellcracker. Lake county anglers of all ages seek these panfish year-round. Bream are cooperative.

Anglers know that fish change with the seasons, and that every season has its own fast-biting species and productive spots. The toughest thing is trying to predict just when the seasonal changes will ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Saddle Creek the bass bite is best in the morning on topwater frogs around the edges of the banks. During the day, flukes under the island trees are getting the bite. There’s a ...

The bobber slowly disappears beneath the water's surface with the kind of unhurried leisure that signals "good fish" to the trained observer. "That's a `cracker'," says north Alabama angler Ricky ...

This, though, has been a strong year for area fishing in general; and bluegill and shellcracker seekers willing to suffer through awfully-hot late summer days say that their target species remains ...

If you enjoy catching big bluegill, go right now! Bluegill and shellcracker are bedding hot and heavy on Chickamauga. Chances are Nickajack and other lakes are in the same mode, although I haven't ...

Bream are bedding all over Guntersville Lake right now and will be for the next few weeks. What is more lazy and enjoyable than bream fishing? Other than, maybe, catfishing with jugs, I can't think of ...

We’re now in one of my favorite times of year: the time when bream are spawning. While I love catching other species, especially catfish, fishing for bream is a much-loved pastime for this country boy ...