It's payback time in North Alabama. Throughout the spawn, bluegills and other panfish harass nesting bass, rushing in to gulp down eggs and fry anytime the parent fish are distracted. But the bass get ...

One great place to begin is by looking at classic patterns that have stood the test of time and have been catching fish for decades. Many of those flies are on the list below. But you also have to ...

"OK, now you are just showing off!" I said to my fishing buddy Jim Kelso as he landed his fourth bluegill in a row, and to add insult to injury, this time he had a double on. In spite of me having the ...

I wish I had discovered fly fishing when I was a kid. I spent hours collecting grasshoppers and tossing them into Louisiana ponds, bayous and lakes, just to watch mostly bluegill and bass peck them ...

August arrives in a heat wave, so fish early or fish late. Not that anglers can’t catch fish midday, but profusely sweating while casting again and again makes one miserable. Fly anglers not wishing ...