Featured
Red snapper season to open May 25
It could become confusing, but fishermen on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast should be happy with the 2018 red snapper season announced Tuesday by the Department of Marine Resources. […]
Fishing
Field Notes
Easy tip to prevent backlash
Baitcasting tackle gives anglers more power and control over their lures, enabling actions and presentations not possible with spinning gear. […]
Field Notes
Tiny tools that just might save your fishing trip
When your lower unit inevitably sucks up a fragment of marsh gunk, your motor will stop peeing. Here’s how to fix that. […]
Bass Fishing
Scouting new water: It’s for the birds
When Brock Mosley hits new water for the first time, he scouts … for birds. […]
Inshore Fishing
No need for speed; slow is good
Lee Parsons emphasizes that many fishermen fish too fast, especially with stickbaits like MirrOlures. His retrieve includes plenty of twitches and pauses, with current providing most of the forward movement. The idea is not to see how much water can be covered, but to entice fish to strike. […]
Inshore Fishing
Match the hatch
Guides Lee Parsons and Mark Dickson emphasize choosing lures that are the same body shape, size and color of the dominant forage in an area. Several of the Catch 2000 lures, plus the 52M and MR, TT and MirrOmullet, have the general body shape as a mullet, and all topwater MirrOlures have mullet shapes. […]
Crappie/Bream
Rodholders key to stalking crappie
Driftmaster Rodholders, a division of Black River Tools, is the manufacturer of one of the most innovative rod holders designed specifically for spider-rigging for crappie. […]
Crappie/Bream
The pros and cons of current
Long is the debate over exactly how current, whether it be wind or water generated, has on crappie fishing. […]
Crappie/Bream
Crappie yet to spawn on Barnett Reservoir
It could happen today, but then, again, it might be tomorrow. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish for Bogue Homa post-spawn bass in April
April is a post-spawn bass month at Bogue Homa. The females will be coming off the bed, and they’ll want to feed up to help recover from the spawn. But they will still will be holding fairly close to the spawning area in shallow water. […]
Columns
How do young crappie survive the winter
Good crappie fishing often depends on a strong year-class: an abundance of fish produced in a given year. When those fish grow to a size of interest to anglers — what biologists call “recruit to the fishery” — the result is fast action, filled limits and full coolers. Fast growth and limited harvest often equates to super slabs for the next several years. […]
Crappie/Bream
April 15: Taxes or slabs at the Rez
Barnett Reservoir’s crappie spawn peaks about the time your taxes are due. So pay Uncle Sam early so you can hit the shallows for slabs. […]