1 Around Lakeland, the bluegill are “popping off real good” on crickets and red worms at Saddle Creek Park. Bass fishing has been tough though. Ten-inch mag trick worms have been the most productive.

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 Saddle Creek, the park has had a pretty good bite this week for bluegill on red worms and grass shrimp on the bottom along the edges of the banks. Shiners under a float are ...

We're quickly approaching one of my favorite times of year — the time of year when bream are spawning. While I love catching other species, especially catfish, fishing for bream such as bluegills and ...

The bobber slowly disappears beneath the water's surface with the kind of unhurried leisure that signals "good fish" to the trained observer. "That's a `cracker'," says north Alabama angler Ricky ...

Flip the cattails or throw a Rat-L-Trap down the outside edge of the cattails. For shellcracker and bream, fish the grass near the mouth of the Apopka-Beauclair Canal. Drift minnows the stretch close ...