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 Horseshoe, Legs and Waterlou. Lakes Shop, 3, 5, B and C also had high catch rates. This past week there were 15 large bass over 19 inches ...

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 ...

Largemouth Bass – Extreme, sustained hot weather has water temps very high, but the bass bite is still decent both early and late in the day or around deep-water holes or structure. 1 At Saddle Creek, ...

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.

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 ...

The panfish bite for bluegill and shellcracker has really turned on for Polk County area anglers this week. However, bluegill get the nod as many good size fish were reported. 1 Around Lakeland, at ...

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 ...

Jim Sutton's weekly county fishing report is published each Thursday. The St. Johns River and area lakes If I were a betting man who handicapped the reproductive cycles of freshwater fish, I'd be so ...