From experience, we knew big schools of big striped bass were in a specific area of Barnett Reservoir. They were close — they had to be because the conditions were perfect. […]
When bass hide in vegetation as thick as your back yard, take the game to them by following these experts’ advice for utilizing grass environments. […]
It was the eve of Feb. 1 in the year 1700 — a day long celebrated by Europeans as “Candlemas,” a day when their religious clergy blessed the candles that would be used in their religious services for the remainder of the year. […]
Steve Grace pulled out of his driveway and into a blinding rainstorm as he prepared for his Day on the Lake trip to Lake Columbia recently. […]
Pickwick is best known for its bass fishing, but there are some whopper catfish lurking there, as well. Also, the Chandeleur Islands provide some exceptional fishing this month. […]
Pickwick is best known for its bass fishing, but there are some whopper catfish lurking there, as well. Also, the Chandeleur Islands provide some exceptional fishing this month. […]
Chunky Bay Springs crappie are waiting, while waters around Ship Island are filling with big speckled trout. […]
“A lot of anglers struggle here,” said Bay Springs crappie guide and local fishing guru Wayne Inman. “They expect it to fish like the other big crappie lakes in the state, and that’s just not the case here.”
What Inman means is not that Bay Springs is a poor crappie lake; in fact, exactly the opposite is true. But to successfully catch crappie in the 6,700-acre impoundment, anglers will need to understand a few dynamics about the lake.
First is that depth changes are relatively extreme from one end of the impoundment to the other. […]
Too much of a good thing! That applies to many of Mississippi’s public fishing lakes, when it comes to bass populations. […]
Josh Cameron pulled up near a shallow grass bed on Pickwick Lake and promptly sailed a frog across the matted grass, and worked it toward the boat. […]
The buzz bait sailed through the air like a butterfly. It plopped right down next to a half-submerged, half-rotted log.
And the water erupted like a volcano.
I was trying to get my camera up as Don jerked on his rod to seal the deal. He landed another bass, and I was still way behind on the count.
That hidden lake in Holmes County was off the beaten track on private land we leased to deer hunt. We discovered the isolated Big Black River oxbow lake by mistake. All total it was no bigger than a football field, but it held some decent bass. […]
Chunky Bay Springs crappie are waiting, while waters around Ship Island are filling with big speckled trout. […]
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