2015 - Page 33 of 59 - Mississippi Sportsman

Choosing the best popping cork

May 25, 2015 Patrick Bonin

The popping cork debate rages on. Whichever model, size and color you choose, here’s hoping you see it disappear often on your next trip out. […]

Focus on travel routes for postspawn crappie

May 24, 2015 Dan Kibler

Catching crappie after the spawn is a matter of following them along their travel routes to deep water. Here are some tips. […]

Keep wading gear simple for trout fishing

May 23, 2015 Chris Ginn

Instead of carrying a tackle store when wade fishing, pare down to the bare essentials so you can concentrate on catching big speckled trout. […]

Postspawn bass aren’t known for feeding aggressively, but throw the right lures in the right places and you’ll build a limit.

3 productive lures for postspawn bass

May 22, 2015 Dan Kibler

Bass fishermen hate the thought of having to catch fish that have just finishing spawning and are often acting sickly, but sometimes they just have to figure out how to catch these finicky fish. […]

Top tips for trout success

May 21, 2015 Jerald Horst

A person can’t successfully charter fish for 28 years without accumulating a bag of tricks. Zutie Auenson is no exception. Here are some of his favorite tactics to stay on trout. […]

Weego’s Professional model is the company’s largest unit, and it’s still practically pocket sized.

Portable power

May 21, 2015 Allan Tarvid

The last time you were miles from anywhere, turned your boat’s ignition key and heard nothing, what did you do?

No, I mean after you ran through the appropriate part of your vocabulary. […]

With liberal opportunities announced by state wildlife officials for the 2015-16 season, deer hunters can try to match this monster taken last winter by former Major League pitching star Roy Oswalt in Northeast Mississippi.

Unlike the previous few seasons, when new regulations and dates were included, Mississippi’s deer hunters will only a see a few minor changes in the 2015-16 season, and those are caused by the calendar. […]

Six trout baits you have to have

May 19, 2015 Andy Crawford

May is when everything really begins to come together to produce great trout fishing conditions. Warming weather pushes water temps up. The rivers begin to subside from spring rains and snow melts up north. […]

Find the right grass for heavy stringers

May 19, 2015 Andy Crawford

Matt Loetscher knows there are some keys to finding the beds of vegetation most likely to hold big bass this time of year. […]

Bateman shows off his secret weapon for speckled trout, Sathers Sour Neon Night Crawlers.

The Candy Man can — Fishing gummy worms for trout

May 19, 2015 Jerald Horst

When Bob Bateman nestled the bow of the boat against the grassy bank and reached for a rod rigged with an oval popping cork, I knew he was going after speckled trout. […]

Rig the Z-Man Turbo Craw on a swimbait hook, and the lure literally comes alive.

Swimbait hook transforms craw worms

May 18, 2015 Andy Crawford

While chatting with Z-Man’s Glenn Young during the recent Louisiana Sportsman Show, I picked up one of the rod segments and started hopping one of the lures in the booth’s water tank. […]

After getting poked a few times with a rod tip and having its back rattled by trolling motor blades, an alligator about this size took the writer and his spinnerbait for a memorable ride at Eagle Lake.

Surprise: Snag starts swimming off

May 18, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

EAGLE LAKE — When I felt something hit my lure hard, instinctively, I set the hook.

What followed was comical, a bit sobering and never forgotten. […]

Year: 2015