In my never-ending quest to catch the next pesky fish, I dig up an awful lot of information, which is one of the really great things about trying to be a good fisherman. I figure the better I ...

Jonathan Sharples, C. Mark Moore, Tom P. Rippeth, Patrick M. Holligan, David J. Hydes, Neil R. Fisher and John H. Simpson Limnology and Oceanography (L&O;) publishes research articles, reviews, and ...

Most anglers have likely heard the words "thermocline" and "turnover" associated with local fishing reports and dock talk. Both result from thermal stratification, an annual occurrence at a majority ...

I’ve long held with the belief that 10 percent of the fishermen catch 90 percent of the fish. The reason that saying rings true is that those 10 percenters understand that 90 percent of the fish are ...

As rain-free skies finally cleared sufficiently to let the sun shine for more than two or three days in a row this month, our average air temperatures have increased, and our local lakes’ surface ...

Each summer stratification of the waters in our two local reservoirs, Belton and Stillhouse Hollow, takes place. This stratification significantly impacts fish location and, therefore, fishing.

The lower St. Johns River basin is an estuary with all the typical characteristics of a semi-enclosed body of water, open to the ocean and diluted with freshwater. That fact has been discussed ...

The lengthy branches of the brushpile reached several feet upward. On my sonar, the limbs looked like arms cradling what I suspected were crappies. Confident that my boat was over fish 20 feet down, I ...