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Bass pros like Pete Ponds of Madison will have two big weekends, back-to-back, for pro tournaments on Barnett Reservoir next March.

CGM move clears way for BFL, BASS

October 30, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

A gesture of good will Thursday from a popular locally based bass tournament series has avoided a potential conflict of major fishing events on Barnett Reservoir in March 2015. […]

According to creator Clyde Folse, the scent will remain on the little soft plastic strips for two or three years.

The Crappie Psychic

October 30, 2014 Don Shoopman

There were days as recently as this summer that a 51-year-old Raceland outdoorsman returned from a sac-a-lait (crappie) fishing trip and removed a secret weapon on his tube jig about a mile from the boat ramp. He did this so no one would get so much as a glimpse of the artificial add-on responsible for putting so many slabs in the ice chest. […]

Anthony Denny caught the state record bass on New Year's Eve of 1992 at Natchez State Park. Did his 18.15-pounder raise the bar too far?

Winter is lunker time

October 29, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It was a warm winter’s day, the last one of 1992 in fact, when Anthony Denny saw the telltale sign of a big bass making a feeding run on some shad in a cove on the lake at Natchez State Park. […]

A court has thrown out a lawsuit that sought to force fuel sellers to better label the controversial E15 fuels that the marine industry says are deadly for outboards and other small engines.

Court throws out suit seeking more strict requirements for ethanol pumping

October 24, 2014 Jerry Dilsaver

The U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia circuit has thrown out of court the most-recent case involving ethanol labeling, reasoning that the groups bringing the complaint – including the recreational boating industry – don’t have standing because they “cannot show members have suffered or are suffering with an injury that is traceable to the misfueling regulations.” […]

To discover how much deeper your engine’s skeg runs than your transducer, park your boat on a level surface and measure the distances.

How to keep your electronics from hurting you

October 23, 2014 Allan Tarvid

“Garbage in, garbage out” was a watchword with computers long before they were integrated into marine electronics. We rarely enter full-blown garbage into our stuff out on the water but expensive problems can stem from not giving some “minor” details the attention they deserve. […]

Cooler weather puts a lot of crappie fishermen to work on the oxbow lakes. Paul Johnson loves them when they bite two at the time on Eagle Lake.

Don’t forget crappie, bream in the fall

October 20, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Crappie fishing in the fall and later on through the winter means fish gang up in big schools under big wads of shad. […]

Hitting dying vegetation with a spinner bait is a great shallow water technique in the fall, as Elite Series bass pro Pete Ponds demonstrates.

Bass moving up, following shad

October 20, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Fishermen love hunting season, especially those who do not hunt.

“Means a lot less traffic on the water,” said Gene Turner of Jackson, who loves bass fishing on Delta oxbows and Barnett Reservoir in October and November. […]

For a long time Davy Hite stayed away from creeks with lots of bait, but he realized those were actually the ones he should target because so many bass head there to feed.

How to pick the best creek to fish

October 16, 2014 Dan Kibler

Bass fishermen know that fall means going back in creeks to find fish that are mirroring the movements of baitfish. So how is it that on most reservoirs in the south, one or two creeks stand out in October and November as the places to be? Is there something about those creeks that make them the places to become Autumn? […]

Pairing a popping cork with a gold spoon

October 16, 2014 Patrick Bonin

Capt. Ted DeAgano III with Scales-N-Tales Charters likes to tie on a ½- or ¾-ounce weedless Berkley gold spoon when he’s targeting redfish. […]

When you’re fishing pockets at Calling Panther, you’ll often need 40-pound braided line to muscle big bass out of the grass.

Call up big October bass at Calling Panther Lake

October 16, 2014 Paul Elias

Calling Panther, one of the newer lakes in Mississippi, produces good numbers of 10-12 pound bass. The lake has some vegetation, ideal structure and topography for great fall fishing and a good population of bait fish. There’s not a more exciting way to catch a bass than watching the bass blow up on topwater lures. […]

Phil King uses a two-hook Santee-Cooper trolling rig. The two circle hooks insure an almost 99-percent hookup on big cats.

King believes in 2-hook trolling rig for catfish

October 15, 2014 Phillip Gentry

For trophy blue and flathead catfish trolling, Phil King uses a variation of the Santee-Cooper Trolling Rig. […]

As the water cools and bass chase shad into the shallows, October becomes a great month to throw frogs. BASS Elite Series pro Pete Ponds loves to hit the pads on Barnett Reservoir.

Fishing heats up

October 14, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

The weather will most assuredly cool down in October, but improved fishing is just as much a certainty. From the Tennessee line south to the Gulf of Mexico’s Mississippi Sound, seasonal movements will create some of best action of the year. […]