Sometimes it helps when you have no idea what you’re doing. To wit: Speckled trout can’t be caught in a bayou considerably north of Interstate 10, and bream shouldn’t be smacking crickets in the waning days of December. […]
Officers of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Marine Patrol issued citations to owners of a Pascagoula seafood dealer on Tuesday and confiscated over 100 pounds of undocumented flounder. […]
Search and recovery divers were pretty much on their own back in the early 1980’s; I know because I was one of them. I spent 10 years on the Dallas Fire Department’s dive team and worked from the department’s drag boats before the dive team came to be. Fireman Thad Moore, owner of a SCUBA shop in Dallas, thought we could do better for the families of drowning victims than recovering them with drag hooks. He developed a search and recovery class for SCUBA divers, canvassed the department for volunteers and the Dallas Fire Department’s SCUBA Search & Rescue team was born.
If you want to catch more speckled trout, then use a fluorocarbon leader and loop knot on every bait you use. […]
Brandon Bosarge of Gautier now has his named on two species in the list of Mississippi’s saltwater fishing records. […]
Today’s popularity of braid has resulted spinning reels designed to be have braid spooled up with no backing. The crossover uni knot is designed for this usage.
I’ve had a treble hook jammed into my jawline, so when I heard that fellow Louisiana Publishing employee Jay Forest had speared himself in the top lip with a jig hook I had to shiver a bit.
The bass at Bay Springs Lake near Booneville can be found in many places during December, which is a transition month. The weather and water temperatures will be your best indicator of where to find the bass.
With so much attention paid to hunting season, it’s easy to overlook what is one of the best fishing periods of the year. Remember that it was in December — Dec. 31, 1992, to be exact — when the state record for largemouth bass was set at 18.15 pounds by Anthony Denny at Natchez State Park […]
As you read this Catfish Hotspot report on Tunica Lake, you will see that some of the top spots listed require crossing the Mississippi River to Arkansas and its waters. […]
Derek Logan’s method of cleaning giant catfish — those over 25 pounds — produces beautiful chunks of boneless, snow-white meat. […]
There it was — the sweet chime of my mother ringing the dinner bell on the back porch, signaling it was time to come in from the garden to eat.
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