Fishing

A Tennessee boat dealer is offering a huge cash prize for anyone who can catch a tagged smallmouth bass in South Holston Lake in Tennessee.

The University of Alabama's athletic year might have officially ended last month, but the school still brought home another title for 2016.

On a recent trip to Crooked Island, Mark Pugh dove headfirst into the water. He had no rod, no reel and no bait. Just his hands and when he emerged again, he held an amazing prize: a shark.    

Nick Saban has made a habit of reeling in the big fish. After years of landing four and five-star talent, the Alabama head coach turned that expression into a literal one. Saban told reporters that he caught a 6-foot, 180-pound tarpon off the Gulf Coast on Monday...

We spent the weekend in Miller's Ferry. We enjoyed a couple days on the river running trot lines. We set out two with about 30 hooks on each. We had a good couple days.

John Powell with L&L Marine stopped in studio this morning to tell us about the 2014 Lake Tuscaloosa Championship Bass Tournament. The first round starts Saturday.

A father and son duo go ice fishing out in Canada. It's a nice, quiet time out on the ice. And then -- the unexpected happens.

You know all those plans you had to go swimming this summer? Forget them. After you see the fish a Virginia man caught earlier this month, you're not even going to want to take a shower without a spear gun. Virginia fisherman Caleb Newton caught a three-foot-long, 17-pound, six-ounce Northern snakehead fish (also known as Frankenfish) in the Potomac River earlier this month...

This past Sunday morning I spent day break on the Alabama River in Wilcox County with two fishing poles and about 50 minnows in a bucket and my brother-n-law, Jonathan. We were Crappie fishing. We put in below the Lock and watched the sun come up as we turned off the river into  Beaver Creek.

Intrepid Tennessee reporter Carley Gordon got way more than she bargained for when an Asian carp broke free during a Channel 4 News report and nearly sent her over the side of a boat. Well, it is an invasive species, after all. What did she expect?