When 110 of the top bass anglers in the world hit the 33,000-acre Barnett Reservoir April 27-30 for the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite Series event in Ridgeland, they’ll be catching the 52-year-old lake in near peak condition. […]
Old Natchez Trace Lake — a.k.a. Trace Lake — at Trace State Park near Pontotoc will soon be drained and closed to the public during its renovation, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. […]
The best 110 bass fishermen in the world will hit Barnett Reservoir in Ridgeland April 27-30, casting for big fish and a $100,000 top prize in the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite Series tournament. […]
Mississippi’s court system will soon have a chance to show if it’s as serious as the state’s wildlife agency about the wild pig threat when cases reach court involving four people charged recently in an illegal hog operation in Walthall County. […]
The bedding activity South Mississippi anglers enjoyed in March will be available to bream fishermen in the rest of the state in April. […]
The first female to ever hold a director level position in the wildlife bureau of Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) is Amy Blaylock, who was named Director of Wildlife Resources on Wednesday. […]
A Mississippi company based in Guntown is specializing in bass fishing rods that are made one at a time with a touch only a mother could give. […]
When the 2017 Bassmaster Elite Series visits Barnett Reservoir the last weekend of the April, the 111 best bass fishermen in the world will be hard-pressed to match or beat the lunker posted in February’s B.A.S.S. Nation High School Open on the same waters. […]
Remember that story on this website from early March about the new lake record 11.6-pound largemouth bass at Jeff Davis Lake?
Well, forget about it. […]
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks has hired its next wildlife bureau chief, and despite going outside the agency to get him, he’s a known entity. […]
Mississippi alligator hunters will have the same number of tags, in the same number of regions, with the same boundaries for the 2017 public water season this summer, but gone is the first-come, first-serve drawing process under a plan approved in March by the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. […]
Pittman Edwards had the biggest deer but Josh Smith of Brandon walked away with the grand prize exotic hunt at the recent awards breakfast for the 2016-17 Big Buck Bounty Contest at McLain Lodge in Fannin. […]
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