"What is that?" a young angler asks inquisitively as he reels in a fish from the rain-swollen waters below Wheeler Dam in north Alabama. A light drizzle is falling on this early December day as the ...

Normal water surface temperatures at Barkley and Kentucky lakes for this time of year are in the mid- to upper 40s, which usually occurs in late December or early January. This year the water ...

Jeff Lampe and I were still trying to gain our sea legs on the choppy waters of the Illinois River when Dominic "Big Knobs" Culjan deftly set the hook on a nice white bass. He hooked and swept the ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — The inevitable late winter rains fall, filling creeks and rivers full to their banks. The warmer rainwater mixes with the river water and increases the temperatures a few degrees. The ...

The unusually cold weather over the past several weeks has dropped the water temperatures at Barkley and Kentucky Lakes down into the 40s, which normally occurs in late December or early January. As a ...

The weather temperatures may be on the rise for this weekend, but don’t look for water in area lakes and rivers to warm to the occasion. Since colder weather, translated water, is good for sauger ...

LITTLE ROCK — A cold, rainy day in January isn’t my usual idea of a good time to fish. But when I heard saugers were biting below Murray Dam at Little Rock recently, I grabbed an ultralight rod and ...

There too are the non-hunting anglers that recognize that November is a great time to go fishing as late fall settles in, the days turn cold, and the outdoors section is flooded with ice fishing gear ...