Bobby C's Outdoors
CWD news concerns Mississippi hunters
Even casual Mississippi deer hunters are concerned about news that Michigan has confirmed its first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in its wild deer population. […]
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Bass Fishing
How to fish small lakes
Fishing a small lake for bass can be great angling fun. Scan the lake, look for structure, work the edges, banks and cover. […]
Bass Fishing
Rapala Shadow Rap
Rapala last introduced a jerkbait around 2000.
The Finland artificial lure manufacturer got back in the swim of things in a resounding way, although it was a well-kept secret, during the 2015 Bassmaster Classic on Lake Hartwell near Greenville, S.C. […]
Fishing
Portable power
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. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Surprise: Snag starts swimming off
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. […]
Happy Trails
We’ve come a long way
The 2015 spring turkey season was, as of this writing, a total bust for me, as I have been neck-deep in the moving process to a new house that the wife and I have been building and dealing with for some months now. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Fishing: We’ve got it, go get it
Redfish, speckled trout, white trout, ground mullet, croaker, flounder, black tip shark and even a big ol’ blue crab.
Largemouth bass, spotted bass, crappie, bluegill, redear, green sunfish, goggle eye and long-eared sunfish. […]
Bass Fishing
Key on the pads at Ross Barnett
This month bass should have completed spawning, be moving out of the lily pads and toward their deepwater summer patterns, and schooling in and on the edges of the lily pads, as well as in open water. […]
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Good to eat and fun to catch
Flounder swim along our shores and are ready for the taking, if you’re willing to go after them. That’s why you should try flounder gigging with the family. […]
As Big As they Grow
You can’t make stuff like this up
Fishermen are known to tell tall tales — we all know that. How do you know when a fisherman is telling a lie? His lips are moving — right? […]
Freshwater Fishing
Fish need water
As I write this in late March, the Mississippi River is at flood stage, 12 feet above normal stage for this date, and rising. Hopefully this will not be a repeat of 2011, when the river reached a record high stage at Vicksburg and threatened to top or blow out levees. […]
Fishing
When things go wrong on the boat
If ever there was a lesson to be learned in boating, it is to believe in preventative measures. It seems like if it can go wrong, then it is going to happen with a boat, on a boat or because of a boat. […]