The best bite has been with fresh cut gizzard shad, although the threadfin shad ... Target bass with Carolina rigs and football head jigs. Crappie can be caught with minnows or jigs.

This time of year, speckled trout are escaping their deep-water cellars and invading adjacent marshes, where growing bait stocks make the hungry fish aggressive and frisky. This week, I pointed my ...

On inland lakes and impoundments, bass often taste like a cross between threadfin shad and dragonflies. After all, you are what you eat. But in the marshes where I fish, bass eat crustaceans ...