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June 8, 2026

Ken Covington, known by many as the “Minnow Man,” raises minnows and wholesales them to bait shops all over Mississippi and Alabama. He also enjoys using his products to catch big bass.

Can’t catch bait? Then buy it

June 15, 2017 Michael O. Giles

While some diehard anglers catch their own shad, wild shiners, or goldfish, but most people must rely on the local bait shop. That’s where Ken Covington comes in. […]

Mississippi’s noodling, or hand-grabbing season for catfish, opened May 1 and ends July 15, making June the peak month for hands-on action.

Noodling (a.k.a. hand-grabbing) peaks in June

June 15, 2017 Bobby Cleveland

One of the few freshwater fishing seasons in Mississippi is the hands-on noodling season for catfish, and June is the peak month for activity. […]

The Anglr app allows you to track your trail, the number of casts you made, where and when you caught your fish among other data.

Historically, fishing has been behind the times where technology is concerned. Perhaps it’s the laid-back nature of many anglers or maybe it’s due to an unwillingness of folks to want others clued in to their hot spots thanks to an eye in the sky. […]

Hayden Jordan, 8, was fishing in Caledonia when he caught this bass with a crappie minnow.

Five hot spots to fish in June

June 14, 2017 Bobby Cleveland

Here are five excellent Mississippi fishing holes, each for a different species, to fish in June. […]

Mississippi bow fishermen Brad Baugh and Bubba Steadman of Cleveland captured this Northern Snakehead fish June 5 in Lake Whittington.

First snakehead found in state

June 12, 2017 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi has its first confirmed capture of a live Northern Snakehead fish, a dreaded invasive non-native species that the state neither wants or needs. […]

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June 8, 2017 Ann Taylor

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Follow Wally "Mr. Crappie" Marshall's 10 fishing tips to catch more summertime perch.

Mr. Crappie’s top 10 crappie-fishing tips

June 8, 2017 Andy Crawford

Seeing a school of crappie on your side-imaging electronics is one thing: Getting those fish into the boat is quite another. […]

Paul Elias likes to pitch a jig into the thickest hydrilla he can find, let the lure sink to the bottom, hop it off the bottom two or three times, reel the bait in and make another pitch.

Lake Okhissa for June bass

June 8, 2017 Paul Elias

I’ll choose 1,075 acre Lake Okhissa near Bude, Mississippi, for June bass fishing. A Bill Dance Signature Lake in the Homochitto National Forest, Okhissa is deep and clear with plenty of hydrilla and dollar pads. The bass will be on their summer pattern, so I’ll be fishing a frog pattern and a flipping and pitching pattern. […]