Summertime blues are a rare affliction for anglers who feel the tug of a hard-fighting black bass when the weather turns hot. Check their fishing rods, and a good number of them will have a plastic ...

Striped bass fishing continues to be good, reports Reece Jones at Hook, Line and Sinker in Rogers. Stripers are being caught 60 feet deep or deeper, he said. Best baits are brood minnows, shad or ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Saddle Creek, the bass bite is decent on live shiners early in the mornings. Some limits of shellcracker are being caught on red worms around the park. One angler caught 31 fish ...

When the fishing turns summertime tough, bass anglers get downright wacky. Plastic worms may catch more black bass during summer than any other lure. There are all kinds of ways to rig them. One that ...

1. Around Lakeland, at Saddle Creek, bluegill and shellcracker are biting in the pads on crickets, red worms and grass shrimp. Artificials such as creature baits and ribbon tail worms are getting the ...

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 Saddle Creek, the bass bite is good around the park on small and medium size shiners, speed worms and sapphire blue color plastic worms. Good numbers of bluegill and tilapia are ...

Largemouth Bass – Water temperatures are still very hot, keeping bass in open, deeper water during the middle of the day. The bass bite is best in the mornings or evenings around the area. 1 At Saddle ...

1. In Lakeland, the speck bite has been good despite the weather. Lakes Crago, Mattie and Juliana have been hot spots with with some weighing more than 2 pounds off the grass shrimp jig and minnows.