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 ...

Decisions, decisions. If you’re a fly angler, you have lots to make. Yes, there are plenty of different lures on tackle-shop shelves, but not nearly as many as there are different fly patterns in well ...

"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 ...

Fly rods make for tough fishing on most Alabama lakes most of the year. Fish in deep water are hard to get at with fly gear, and most fish are found deep in the summer due to heat, and in the winter ...

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 ...