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 Tenoroc, bass fishing was best on lakes Coronet, Half-Moon, Horseshoe, Legs, Lost Lake West, Shop, 3, 10, A, C and G. Lakes Butterfly, Fishhook, Legs, 2, 4, 5 and B also had high ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Saddle Creek the bass bite is best in the morning on topwater frogs around the edges of the banks. During the day, flukes under the island trees are getting the bite. There’s a ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Tenoroc, the bass bite was best this week at lakes Fishhook, Shop, Waterloo, Wetland, A, B, C, F, 3, 4 and 10. Lakes Cemetery, 2 and 5 also had catch rates worth noting. This ...

Like most fishermen, the first fish I caught was a bream – from Georgia’s Lake Sinclair at a family picnic in 1959. The bream I caught was a bluegill, but depending on where you grew up, your first ...

Redear sunfish go by many names with chinquapin and shellcrackers being two of the more common in Mississippi. Although some anglers specifically target redear, they are often a by-catch for those ...