Bass Fishing
Catch a bunch of bass at Pickwick Lake
In February at Pickwick Lake, the bass family will be having a reunion and ganging up.
In warm weather with active bass biting the Alabama Rig, you might have a 50-fish catch. […]
Columns
Speckled Trout
Dream boat
If someone tells you you don’t need a trolling motor on your boat, stop talking to that person — you don’t need that kind of negativity in your life. […]
Crappie/Bream
Crappie culture breakthroughs
Stocking crappie into public waters is rarely needed, but some systems occasionally could benefit from adding fish to supplement weak year classes. […]
Hunting
Give yourself the shaft
With all of the annual hype and focus on the latest and greatest compound bows, the arrows they shoot are often an afterthought. In reality, the arrow is just as important, if not more, than the bow it is shot from. […]
Fishing
The Matrix Minnow
One good hard bait deserves another, and that is what Chas Champagne of Slidell has done with the introduction this month of the Matrix Minnow. […]
Fishing
Marine electronics for your wrist
An electronic watch can be as smart as Einstein and still be useless to fishermen if it isn’t waterproof.
Well, Garmin’s Quatix 3 ($449.99) can be submerged to 100 meters — about 178 feet deeper than the practical limit for SCUBA divers on compressed air — so this watch should handle anything a fisherman is likely to encounter. […]
Deer Hunting
Late-season reflections
As we go into 2017, most of us have had the good fortune of sitting quietly alone multiple times this season in the Deep South winter woods. […]
Bass Fishing
Start the year off with some bass
January is a fickle month at Ross Barnett, with warm weather some years while other times feature temperatures below freezing the entire month. […]
Redfish
Scout on low-tide days
The cool thing about January — pun intended — is that we have some extremely low tides when a big tide range is met with a stout north wind. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Global climate change
We all have frustrations. Near the top of my list is the often-heard question: “Do you believe in climate change?” […]
Hunting
It’s an exotic thing
January marks the end of hunting seasons across most of the country, with some ending at the first of the month, some at the end. […]
Bass Fishing
Storm’s Arashi Spinbait
What looks like a topwater prop bait but isn’t because it does its work underwater to entice suspending bass?
The answer is Storm’s Arashi Spinbait, which made its grand appearance at this year’s ICAST show. […]