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July 23, 2026

Don’t overlook sandbars at the mouths of backwater areas at Ross Barnett in May.

Key on the pads at Ross Barnett

May 13, 2015 Paul Elias

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. […]

Good to eat and fun to catch

May 11, 2015 Sam Davis

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. […]

Layne Carpenter, 12, caught the fish of a lifetime five minutes into his tournament-fishing career.

You can’t make stuff like this up

May 7, 2015 Paul Johnson

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? […]

Old Muddy’s fish production is dependent upon the flooding of batture land each spring.

Fish need water

May 4, 2015 Hal Schramm

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. […]

Owning a boat is a matter of pride for many, but it also can be a source of frustration that can be avoided with pretrip checks.

When things go wrong on the boat

May 1, 2015 John J. Woods

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. […]

Hildebrandt Drum Roller

April 29, 2015 Don Shoopman

Want a unique and improved spinnerbait on your side when you go redfish fishing for pleasure or for money? […]

Panoptix’s view can be altered to show depths in colors, making it easy to determine depth of cover, contours and fish at a glance.

Almost live TV

April 23, 2015 Allan Tarvid

One of the most-difficult aspects of teaching fishermen and boaters to interpret conventional sonar screens has been getting them to understand how a screen picture is made. […]

This buck, which was wounded at the bottom of the chest a week before, bled as if it had been shot in the liver. But survived until it was killed chasing a doe.

Unravelling a blood trail

April 20, 2015 Bill Garbo

One recent cold, damp January morning, as I sat in my ground blind watching and hoping for a mature late-season buck, my cell phone in the pocket of my coat vibrated. […]

Working a Reel N’ Shad on a Pickwick pea gravel point is a great way to catch bass this month.

Load the boat with bass this month at Pickwick

April 16, 2015 Paul Elias

You can load the boat at Pickwick Lake this month with bass, if you’re not too choosy about what type of bass you want to catch — largemouths, smallmouths and spots. […]

Tip the scales in your favor for trophy trout

April 13, 2015 Sam Davis

There are some real gator speckled trout swimming along the coast. You just have to know how to target them. […]

Brad Chappell with a guest fisherman caught one fish at Lake Washington, but it turned out to be the big fish of the day.

Bad weather tournaments

April 9, 2015 Paul Johnson

The Magnolia Crappie Club’s February tournament was held at Lake Washington under horrible weather conditions. […]

Taylor Pratt of Canton strains to hold some of the bluegill that were biting on a trip with his grandfather on April 1.

Bluegill, not chinquapins, were hot

April 6, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

The moon’s reflection in the water was nearly full circle, which is why the plan was to find an active bed of redear bream, a.k.a. chinquapin or shellcracker. […]