KISSIMMEE, FL — The sun was starting to break through some morning clouds and shower us with the first light of the morning as guide Randy Yager piloted his boat through a thick mat of vegetation.

Years ago friends and I zipped away from a boat ramp at a North Florida lake during a cool, sunny and windy spring dawn that left little doubt we were in for a tough day of bass fishing. We were in ...

Jerry GIlbert of North Syracuse, holds up a hefty, 8 pound 10-ounce bass he caught recently while fishing with his son, Joe, in Florida. Gilbert wrote: "Mine is a female that had just finished ...