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Chickamauga, Santee, Guntersville Among The Nation’s Best Bass Lakes

Chickamauga, Santee, Guntersville Among The Nation’s Best Bass Lakes

In its recently announced 100 Best Bass Lakes, Bassmaster Magazine ranked Tennessee’s Chickamauga Lake as the second best bass fishery …
Rayburn Lake The Best Bass Lake In The Country by Bassmaster

Bassmaster Ranks Rayburn The Best Bass Lake In The Country

After three years hovering in the Top 5 of Bassmaster Magazine’s 100 Best Bass Lakes rankings, Texas’ Sam Rayburn Lake …
Summertime Tailwater Trout

Summertime Tailwater Trout

It’s hot, and trout are lethargic in our low-elevation streams. With low dissolved oxygen levels and high water temps, catching …
huge crappie world record

Huge Crappie Is A World Record

A fish like this only comes around once in a lifetime, or several lifetimes considering it is likely the new …
Saluda River

S.C. Protects Spawning Trout In Lower Saluda

South Carolina has established a catch-and-release-only zone for brown and rainbow trout on the lower Saluda River near Columbia to …
Bowfisher Arrows snakehead record

Bowfisher Arrows Record Snakehead

Northern snakeheads are a nasty invasive species, which makes them all the more fun to shoot with a bow and …

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The Thing About Bait

The thing about bait is just because we don’t see it or see signs of it doesn’t mean it is not there. What I noticed that kept me in this area is that from time to time I would see several pinfish follow my soft plastic paddletail back to the kayak. This was the key that let me know there was bait in the area that increased the probability of larger predator fish also being there and feeding.

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Swordfish That ‘Looked Like a Dinosaur’ Should Crush the Alabama State Record by 102 Pounds

The six-man crew aboard the Trading Desk, a 60-foot Hatteras, left Alabama's Orange Beach Marina around mid-morning on Aug.