Jan 29, 2015 - Winter doesn’t mean you have to pack up your fishing gear or, gasp, cover your War Eagle boat for the season.

As Field & Stream points out, winter can mean a fishing bonanza. You just have to know where to go.

Author John Merwin lists his top 15 winter destinations in the lower 48, seven of them in the South.

Here's a sample, where Merwin describes fishing for trout in the White River tailwaters in the Arkansas Ozarks:

Here are three good reasons to consider fishing Arkansas' fabulous White River tailwater this winter. First, there's nobody around, and the trout are lonely. Second, because it's tailwater fishing, water temperatures generally remain in the 50s to low 60s, so trout are active all winter. And third, Crazy Mike Neher said so…

…There are 50 miles of good trout fishing on the main-stem White below Bull Shoals Dam in the northern Arkansas Ozarks, and tributaries such as the Norfork and Little Red are productive tailwaters in their own right.

Read more right here. Then, get out there and scratch that winter itch.