2012 - Page 46 of 56 - Mississippi Sportsman

Bassmaster pro Alton Jones leads the Elite Series tournament on the St. Johns River by more than 9 pounds, but the river is turning out huge sacks that could erase that margin on the final day.

Jones extends lead in St. Johns River Elite Series tournament

March 18, 2012 Special report from www.Bassmaster.com

Texas pro Alton Jones extended his lead in the 2012 Bassmaster Elite Series opener on Florida’s St. Johns River to just more than 9 pounds yesterday (March 17). […]

Big redear bream like this one have made Trace State Park Lake one of the premier panfishing destinations in all of Mississippi. Read all about it in the April issue of Mississippi Sportsman.

April issue will soon be in mailboxes

March 18, 2012 Mississippi Sportsman

The staff of Mississippi Sportsman sent the April issue to the printer Tuesday (March 13), which means it’ll be hitting mailboxes the week of March 19. […]

Texas pro Alton Jones jumped 17 places to take the second-day lead of the Bassmaster Elite Series stop at the St. Johns River.

Jones takes second-day lead of St. Johns River Elite Series stop

March 17, 2012 Special report from www.Bassmaster.com

Alton Jones jumped from 17th to the top position after the second day of the Bassmaster Elite Series stop at Florida’s St. Johns River on the strength of a two-day total of 44 pounds, 14 ounces.

His nearly 28 1/2-pound second-day sack gave him a margin of more than 7 pounds over his nearest competition, Virginia’s Rick Morris and Tennessee’s David Walker. […]

Bassmaster Elite Series rookie Kyle Fox launches for the first day of competition on the St. Johns River.

Elite Series rookies kick off 2012 season

March 15, 2012 Special report from www.Bassmaster.com

Fletcher Shryock competed last month in the Bassmaster Classic, so his first official week on the job as a Bassmaster Elite Series pro wasn’t the awakening it might have been. […]

This bass attacked Churchill’s floating Rat-L-Trap while he was covering open water between two of his primary hot spots.

In Plain View

March 15, 2012 Chris Ginn

Bass anglers are visual creatures. We like blinking metal flake on our boats. […]

Jigs are popular on the lake because they can be fished on the channel drop-offs and for bass spawning on logs in 6 to 8 feet of water.

Natchez Knuckleball: Catch big bass in this state park’s lake

March 14, 2012 Chris Ginn

If you think your 13-year-old daughter is temperamental and mercurial, you haven’t ever spent much time with a Florida-strain largemouth bass. […]

Preseason scouting is important. Get in shape, pattern your gun and learn where your birds feed, roost, water and loaf. Doing your homework will make harvesting a bird much easier.

Mississippi has one of the most abundant wild turkey populations in the southeast, second only to Alabama. This is an incredible feat considering that not 80 years ago, the eastern wild turkey was on its last leg in the Magnolia State. […]

Register for the Louisiana Sportsman Open bass tournament and fish for a piece of the huge payout!

South Louisiana’s richest bass tournament set for next week

March 3, 2012 Andy Crawford

The Louisiana Sportsman Open bass tournament – South Louisiana’s richest tournament – is just more than a week away, with the first-place team walking away with $10,000 and the total payout based on 100 boats reaching nearly $28,000.

If 100 teams sign up for the Louisiana Sportsman Open, the tournament will pay out a total of $27,375 – which is $7,375 more than total entry fees. […]

These students received the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources’ Excellence in Marine Sciences Award at the Region VI Science and Engineering Fair. From left to right: Morgan Hertz, Class V; Elizabeth Moore, Class IV; Taylor Farr, Class III. Each student received $200 to enable them to enhance their exhibits for the next level of competition.

MDMR awards Excellence in Marine Sciences Awards to area students

March 2, 2012 From News Reports

Five students received Excellence in Marine Sciences Awards during the Region VI Science and Engineering Fair held Wednesday (Feb. 29) at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced.

The MDMR-sponsored award was established to encourage local students to develop research projects involving Mississippi’s coastal resources. […]

Winners of last year’s Washington tournament were Steve and David White of Monticello, Ark. This was the only MCC tournament these anglers fished.

Snakebit

March 1, 2012 Paul Johnson

What happened to that bad winter we were supposed to have? Didn’t the local weather gurus promise one of the coldest winters last fall? I’m not complaining, mind you. And I know you fishermen aren’t either. Talk about some really great wintertime fishing — boy, this has been nice! […]

Preston Pittman knows that if you turkey hunt long enough, you’ll see just about everything. Hunters need to be prepared for change-ups.

Freeze, you’re busted!

March 1, 2012 John J. Woods

Don’t tell me you’ve never done this. You turkey hunt and you’ve never been caught on the short end of the stick? Yeah, right. I’ve been busted so many times the stick is worn down to a nub.

The best part of that means I have had the blessed fortune to turkey hunt a lot and be guided by some of the best, but I really wish I could say I have learned from my mistakes. I just chalk up all the goofs to the nature of the game of turkey hunting. […]

You can customize multi-windowed screen layouts, choose different display colors and select different sonar frequencies for clear, sharp sonar views like this Lowrance HDS-8 screen capture, once you understand the when, where, why and how factors well enough to set it up.

When familiarity breeds content

March 1, 2012 Allan Tarvid

Whoever said that familiarity breeds contempt was not talking about their marine electronics. The plain and simple truth is that the better you know your electronics, the more they can do for you. As a “for instance,” I’m still learning about the side- and down-scanning features on the newer Humminbird and Lowrance sonar units. […]

Year: 2012