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"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TRI-LAKES AREA — 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 ...

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 ...

Check out our Interactive Fishing Maps! HENNEPIN, Ill. It's madness I tell you, pure madness. The madness I'm talking about is the sauger-frenzied Illinois River in March. March Madness on the ...

Recent research by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has shown a significant uptick in the numbers of sauger on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, as well as the lower two navigation pools of ...

But here’s one to remember before you leave home – keep your equipment and boat out of the weather over night. If you have ice inside your boat before leaving home, it’s going fishing with you. Water ...