To catch bass in July, you have to know where they’re holding, why they’re holding there and what types of lures and presentation are required to catch them. Then, realize that even though you may be a master-bass angler, you’ll lose some big ones. […]
“When you feel your croaker jumping around and getting nervous, get ready because a big speckled trout is looking at that croaker with its sharp pointy teeth, and you’re about to get a bite,” says Capt. Kyle Jarreau of Shore Thing Charters, headquartered in Bay St. Louis.
Capt. Michael Moore, owner and operator of Strictly Business Fishing Charters based out of Biloxi, captains all the Strictly Charters fishing vessels, including the “Ms. Darsy” and a tour boat that takes 49 passengers on a trip to catch shrimp and other marine life, hear a history of Biloxi and enjoy light-tackle fishing for trout, flounder and ground mullet. […]
In June, structure fishing gets really good on the Tennessee River’s Pickwick Lake. I’ll be fishing offshore on the mussel beds on the main river channel and secondary creek channels with crankbaits, jigs and 12-inch plastic worms. I’ll use a quality depth finder with side-imaging and down-imaging to locate those mussel beds. […]
In late April, 37 tornadoes ravaged parts of Mississippi and Alabama, wiping out whole communities and towns and killing hundreds of people. And, now, in early May we begin to see the forecasts and maps of the impending record floods for Mississippi’s River towns and almost the entire Mississippi Delta. […]
Industry experts say that excessive sulfation can stop batteries from working long before their internal components wear out. […]
Hand grappling. Grapplin’. Noodling. Hand fishing. Call it what you will, it is a deeply rooted passion for some adventuresome anglers and a flashpoint for others. […]
A couple of years ago, at the Louisville NRA convention, I wandered over to the Ruger booth to watch Randell Pence, national sales manager for Ruger Firearms, doing a land-office business. […]
Crappie are notoriously cyclic. A lake is producing fair to good numbers of slabs for a couple years and then, mysteriously, the big fish disappear and are replaced with abundant but small fish. […]
Seems impossible to me, but by the time you read this, the major annual crappie spawn for all of Mississippi will be, for all practical purposes, over. April is the one month where everyone and his brother hits their favorite crappie lake — all at the same time. […]
There are so many innovative handguns hitting the retail shelves these days, it’s hard to stay ahead of the curve when you’re a gun writer.
The secret to eliminating 90 percent of electronics problems is getting the installation right. […]
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