2013 - Page 17 of 62 - Mississippi Sportsman

Paul Johnson relies on crankbaits to produce summer slab crappie on Barnett Reservoir.

Johnson’s crappie cranking pattern

September 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

The first thing you notice about Paul Johnson when you see him trolling, is that he isn’t running a motor. […]

Place the garden shovel a few inches behind the hole, lift up, and the fiddler will come out of his hole enough for you to grab his claw.

Fiddler crabs

September 15, 2013 Sam Davis

Perry’s favorite bait for catching sheepshead are fiddler crabs he catches in the marsh close to his house. A fiddler crab is compact, which helps prevent the bait from being nibbled off — something a sheepshead is notorious for doing. […]

Suggs displays a hard-earned Okhissa lunker that he fought and subdued.

Lake Okhissa bass-fishing favorites

September 15, 2013 Michael O. Giles

Shad-colored Gunfish for schooling bass, and topwater bass early and late are Michael Suggs’ go-to choices. […]

Offshore anglers were all smiles when they heard a fall recreational red snapper fishing season will be held this month.

14-day snapper season to start Oct. 1

September 13, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

State and federal officials announced today that there will be a 14-day recreational red snapper season for fishermen for the first two weeks of October. […]

This will be the 25th year in a row that the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources has conducted the cleanup program.

25th annual Coastal Cleanup set for Oct. 19

September 12, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Working to keep our shores and marshes clear, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is helping organize the annual Mississippi Coastal Cleanup on Oct. 19. […]

Mississippi’s daily limit has grown from four to six teal this year, and the possession limit has been raised to three times the daily limit.

Teal forecast: Slow going for Saturday’s opening

September 12, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

With the early teal season, which opens Saturday in Mississippi, there is always the worry that the peak of the blue-wing migration will fall outside the 16-day window hunters have at the early flyers. […]

September and October are two of the best months of the year for speckled trout fishing at the barrier islands.

September is marlin and barrier island time on the Gulf Coast

September 12, 2013 John E. Phillips

Capt. Jimmy Taylor operates the Lauren and the Miss Darsey, both docked at Biloxi Small Craft Harbor. A judge at the World Billfishing Classic held at the Isle of Capri, Taylor has probably caught and released as many marlin as anyone along the Upper Gulf Coast. […]

On Sept. 7, the hunting party of Ben Walker of Madison harvested a gator that broke the Mississippi alligator hunting length record for a male alligator. It measured 13 feet 7 inches and weighed 687.5 pounds. Pictured (left to right) are Louis Wilkenson, Squires Huff, Blake Stamps and Ben Walker.

13-7: Gator season ends with another record

September 11, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Ricky Flynt found the perfect close to the 2013 public lands alligator hunt in Mississippi — with another record. […]

Left to right: Dalco Turner, John Ratcliff, Jennifer Ratcliff and Jimmy Greer were a part of the team that brought in Mississippi's new record for heaviest alligator.

Gator record falls yet again

September 9, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi’s record for heaviest alligator lasted 168 times longer than the previous one, albeit just one week. […]

The team led by Brandon Maskew (right) of Ellisville caught this record 10-foot, 295.3-pound female alligator the opening weekend on the Pascagoula River.

Crazy: 3 gators in 90 minutes, over a ton

September 9, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

The craziness of alligator season in Mississippi hit a fevered pitch last Monday when program coordinator Ricky Flynt couldn’t find any other way to describe what he’d seen. […]

Anglers should expect more-dynamic management to maximize the quality of crappie fisheries.

The future of fisheries

September 9, 2013 Hal Schramm

Larry Pugh became chief of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks’ Fisheries Bureau on July 1. Pugh earned his masters degree in fisheries at Mississippi State University, and has worked as a biologist for MDWFP for 15 years. He is an avid and accomplished angler. […]

Pete Ponds' favorite late summer pattern is cranking under schools of surface-feeding bass with a lure he helped design, a Bandit Flat Maxx.

Ponds cranked about late summer bass

September 7, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Ask B.A.S.S. Elite Series pro Pete Ponds of Madison about his favorite late summer fishing pattern, and you get no hesitation. […]