Bobby C's Outdoors
Wonderful night tops great day on The Rez
Descending gloriously, with an orange brilliance over the Natchez Trace, the sun may have been setting but not on our day of fishing on Barnett Reservoir. […]
Columns
Inshore Fishing
Magnolia surfing
Capt. Glenn Ellis and I arrived at the Biloxi Small Craft Harbor well before daylight, launched his boat and headed south. […]
As Big As they Grow
Testing the waters
I went to the lake this morning with my 10-year-old granddaughter, Harlee Johnson.
“H.B. (I call her by her first two initials a lot of the time), we’re going to pull some new-to-us crankbaits this morning,” I said. “They’re called Flicker Shads. They look like the shad that these Barnett crappie like to eat.” […]
Crappie/Bream
The sunfish clan – Part II: Redear sunfish
The redear sunfish has many names. Topping the list is bream and redear bream, but other frequently spoken names are shellcracker and chinquapin. […]
Bass Fishing
Hot bass in cool shadows
So, why do you think nearly everyone at the beach is sitting under a sun umbrella in July? Highway workers are wearing big brim hats with cooler wraps around their necks. Roofers, well, they are just sweating it off. […]
Bass Fishing
LiveTarget Sunfish
Apparently startled, certainly rattled, a small, injured bream swam to the surface, zigged and zagged in the scattered grass, jumped a little and landed sideways before continuing to move erratically until it settled back into the water to meet its fate. […]
Fishing
Digital binoculars for night or day
Binoculars have always had a place in my outdoor life. I keep a pair handy in a storage compartment in my boat, in my truck’s console and in my hunting pack. […]
Columns
Timber vs. wildlife – Management is the key to success
Timber and wildlife are renewable resources — one a potential source of income and the other a great source of annual enjoyment. […]
Bass Fishing
Take more than one rod to Bogue Homa Lake
Don’t bass fish this month with only one rod or one lure — especially if you’re fishing Bogue Homa. […]
Inshore Fishing
Katrina Reef – Out of the rubble came a reef trout love
We finally had a wind-free day recently, so my wife and I decided to take a short jaunt to one of our favorite trout havens after church. […]
As Big As they Grow
Mississippi is king when it comes to crappie fishing
Is the annual crappie spawn over at your favorite fishing hole? Believe it or not, as I write this month’s column the crappie were still doing their thing at Ross Barnett. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The sunfish clan Part I: Bluegill
Mississippi waters provide homes to some good populations of sunfish. And there is a cadre of anglers that would rather fish for — and eat — bream than any other fish on an anglers’ most-wanted list. […]