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Summertime bass care

June 5, 2017 Hal Schramm

When the water warms above 75 degrees, there are three simple things bass anglers need to do to keep their catch alive. […]

Mike Iaconelli believes minding the details can greatly improve your flipping game.

Mike Iaconelli squinted with intense concentration, peering down the shank of a VMC hook in his left hand. Cracking a confident grin, he nodded in approval as the point pressed against his right thumb. […]

Bob Ponds is the dean of striper fishing on Ross Barnett. He trolls to locate a school then casts to them.

Earning Stripes

June 1, 2017 David Hawkins

There is a rock weir behind Fordice Island, almost directly across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg. The river was around 9.9 on the Vicksburg gauge and Richard Baker said we could get all the skipjack shad we’d need for bait for our catfish outing in just a few minutes there. […]

Writer Mike Giles was using live bait at sunrise in June when he caught this healthy largemouth.

Live bait = Big Bass

June 1, 2017 Michael O. Giles

Jack Giles’ cast settled next to a submerged brush pile, and the strike was immediate.

Bam! […]

Pausing a frog over an obvious “blow-up hole” is a good way to tempt another strike from an active area.

Pro-Grade Frog Tips

June 1, 2017 David A. Brown

You’d almost think this thing was a CIA operative, what with all the different identities, abilities and serious armament. At the risk of stretching a not-so-subtle Jason Bourne reference too far, let’s just say that the topwater frog is one deadly asset for just about anytime but the depths of winter and whenever fish hug deep structure. […]

Aaron Abbot shows off a pair of bass, including the 10-pound 4-ounce giant that allowed the 15-year-old to claim the top high school title for Mississippi.

High school and college fishing growing

May 15, 2017 David Hawkins

Bass fishing is one of the fastest growing youth movements across the nation, where every level from junior high to college bass fishing has become a friendly but competitive activity. […]

Making parallel casts keeps your bait in the strike zone longer.

Staying up on current events

May 15, 2017 David A. Brown

Using Ross Barnett Reservoir as an example, FLW Tour pro Pete Ponds of Gluckstadt points to spillways as some of the best riprap spots you’ll find. Draining backwaters through sub-highway pipes, these flushing points reach open water through culverts buttressed by riprap. […]

Early in the morning, when the water has come up, Elias likes to fish a spinnerbait in the shallow water closest to bushes, trees, grass, blowdowns and any other structure.

Fish Pickwick Lake for 30 May bass per day

May 9, 2017 Paul Elias

Pickwick bass fishing can’t get any better than in May. From only two or three schools of bass, you may catch 30 or more bass per day. If rising water happens, the bass will be in this newly inundated water in the grass, bushes and trees. About the middle of May, the bass will be pulling out of the creeks and staging at their mouths or in the cuts and ditches in the flats leading to the river channel. At the end of May, I’ll look for bass out on the main river channel. […]

This pair of female largemouth was captured during an electro-shocking sampling at a U.S. Forest Service lake in Mississippi. The combined weight exceeded 16 pounds, and both were returned alive.

Top public bass waters

May 1, 2017 David Hawkins

May is a peak month of bass activity, and Mississippi has an abundance of public bass fishing waters near everybody. Be it a lake, a river or a reservoir, bass anglers should rejoice in the fact that big bass are hungry after the spawn. […]