Bass Fishing Archives - Page 22 of 86

November 11, 2026

Paul Elias likes to fish a bladed jig in several different areas of the lake this time of year

Fish Bogue Homa in September

September 6, 2019 Paul Elias

September is the month where grass begins to die and bass fishermen at Lake Bogue Homa can put their lures where they may not have been able to all summer. […]

Find summer spots for spotted bass

September 1, 2019 David Hawkins

September is a great month to chase spotted bass. If there’s current, there’s a place in any Mississippi waters for the pugnacious spots. […]

Largemouth bass like this 10.35-pound lunker are rare, even in healthy, fast-growing populations managed for trophy bass.

Getting a handle on trophy bass

August 13, 2019 Hal Schramm

For many bass anglers, size matters, and several states have implemented management efforts to enhance trophy bass opportunities. […]

Fishing on drop-offs at the ledges and in Ross Barnett’s shallow water, you may not catch any monsters, but you should catch plenty of 11/2- to 2-pound bass.

Ross Barnett’s hot-weather bass

August 6, 2019 Paul Elias

A good reason to fish Ross Barnett this month is because it’s a shallow lake with lots of vegetation, which provides shade, cover and oxygen for bass. […]

Using the tip of a toothpick, pushed through a soft-plastic bait and the eye of the hook, will help keep a Texas-rigged bait from sliding down. Break off both ends of the toothpick just outside the worm’s margins.

Stick a toothpick in it

August 5, 2019 Craig Holt

One of the best tools a bass fisherman can have, especially during the summer when fish live largely in deep, cool, oxygenated water, are toothpicks. […]

Finesse fishing hot weather bass

August 1, 2019 Michael O. Giles

If you’re looking to have fishing success in August in Mississippi, then try a few of these tried and true techniques and you should catch a bass. […]

Small lakes, big bass

July 31, 2019 Phillip Gentry

Looking to do some summer bass fishing in south Mississippi? Try Flint Creek, Neshoba County Lake and Calling Panther Lake for plenty of big bass. […]

Take care of your summer bass

July 11, 2019 Hal Schramm

Here are some guidelines for keeping bass held in livewells alive and some results from a recent MSU study that addresses the survival of bass. […]

Bass will set up at the ends of rock bluffs, mussel shell beds, ledges and drop-offs, ready to ambush Pickwick Lake baitfish. Once located, you may catch plenty from one school.

Fish Pickwick for big numbers of July bass

July 9, 2019 Paul Elias

Pickwick Lake is great in the summer for big numbers of largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass. Here’s some lures you should fish there. […]

A fishermen loads fingerlings of Florida-strain largemouth bass into a cooler for release in Ross Barnett Reservoir.

The Rez gets 175k Florida bass

June 25, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Fisheries officials with the MDWFP have stocked more than 175,000 Florida-strain bass fingerlings in 33,000-acre Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson. […]

A long, fat and sassy bass that made the mistake of biting a Zoom Super Fluke offered by Louisiana Sportsman publisher Tony Taylor was one of the larger bass he caught during the six-day trip for an early April bass club tournament at Toledo Bend.

These flukes remain super

June 11, 2019 Don Shoopman

Tony Taylor, publisher of Louisiana Sportsman magazine, is the king, or one of many kings, of fishing with a Zoom Super Fluke. […]

You’ll find a number of stumps and bushes on the edge of the Maynor Creek channel.

Little but mighty Maynor Creek

June 6, 2019 Paul Elias

During June, bass will be schooling, and once you find them, you may catch more than one from the same spot. Maynor Creek. […]