1. In Lakeland, crickets, grass shrimp and red worms have been the go-to bait for bluegill and shellcracker. Golden shiner and black-and-blue have been popular colors for bladed jigs and spinnerbaits ...

1 Around Lakeland, at Saddle Creek, good numbers of bluegill and shellcracker are biting from the banks on red worms. The bass bite is good on black and blue ribbontail worms and swim jigs up around ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay reveal a hidden lake filled with giant redear shellcracker fish unlike anything they expected.

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, ...