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The Chunky River Trading Post and Campground offers basic supplies, bait and fishing tackle. Canoe and kayak rentals are best reserved in advance.

Making the float

October 15, 2013 David Hawkins

Kayaks and canoes are the recommended craft for fishing the Chunky River, but short flat-bottomed boats also work. […]

This boat ramp, on the west side of the Highway 80 bridge near Chunky, will accommodate a small trailer. The river is best floated in a kayak or canoe.

Scenic opportunities

October 15, 2013 David Hawkins

While not offering a put in or take out, Dunns Falls is located on the lower end of the Chunky. The site sits on a high bluff and is the replica of a grist mill that once was on the site. […]

The enticing saunter of a topwater walking plug can deliver big results in the fall.

Quartet of fall bass catchers

October 15, 2013 David A. Brown

For most of his fall creek missions, Web Collums depends on four baits: […]

When trout push into coastal creeks, crustacean imitators like the DOA Shrimp are tough to beat.

Down near the Gulf Coast, you’ll find fewer creeks and more bayous, ditches and sloughs branching off rivers like the Pearl, Biloxi, Jordan and Pascagoula. It’s a little different from the inland sweet waters, but there’s an often overlooked bass-fishing opportunity awaiting those who would seek it. […]

Elite Series pro Stephan Browning, who won the Red River tournament but didn’t qualify for the Classic, is expected to be in Jackson.

Who’s fishing the 2013 Bassmaster Open on the Rez?

October 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

B.A.S.S. won’t release its official field for the Oct. 17-19 event until about a week before the tournament, so it is unclear exactly who will be launching on Barnett Reservoir. […]

Local anglers have never faired well in BASS events on Barnett. Pete Ponds led early in the 1996 event but finished third. His dad Bob Ponds finished second to Ricky Green, losing by one ounce in the 1972 Rebel Invitational.

Local tournament-fishing jinx

October 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Expectations for a local winner always run high at Barnett Reservoir, but it never works out in national tour events. Not once has a Mississippian won a major event on the 33,000-acre lake. […]

There are some big fish swimming in Lake Bogue Homa.

Lake Bogue Homa bass

October 15, 2013 Paul Elias

Bogue Homa Lake about 5 miles outside of Laurel is a relatively shallow lake with plenty of vegetation and live cypress trees. In October, with the first cool nights, the bass in this lake become very active. […]

Will the shooting death of a Bassmaster Open angler in Jackson this weekend mean B.A.S.S. will avoid Mississippi? The fact is that bass tournaments often are held in cities that aren't known for being safe havens.

After Jackson tragedy, will B.A.S.S. ever come back?

October 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

The City of Jackson, Barnett Reservoir and all of Mississippi have a long history with the Bass Anglers Sportsman Society, and its Bassmaster tournament circuit. […]

Pete Ponds may be from the metro area and grew up fishing Barnett Reservoir, but he says that is not really an advantage.

Hot pattern will dictate Barnett BASS winner

October 14, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

There’s more than the simple home vs. away formula when it comes to predicting this week’s B.A.S.S. Central Open at Barnett Reservoir near Jackson. […]

B.A.S.S. Nation member James "Jimmy" Johnson was shot and killed at a Jackson motel Sunday night while investigating vandalism of his boat.

Bassmaster Open competitor shot, killed at Jackson motel

October 14, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

A Texas bass fisherman in Mississippi to fish a B.A.S.S. tournament was shot and killed Sunday night after confronting a man who was allegedly vandalizing his boat in a motel parking lot, Jackson police said. […]

The cool weather of October marks the migration of cobia along the Mississippi coast.

Pompano, cobia, tuna show up

October 11, 2013 John E. Phillips

D’Iberville’s Capt. Robert L. Brodie of Team Brodie Charters in Biloxi said redfish, black drum, speckled trout and white trout should really be active inshore this month. […]

Bob Crosby of Blue Cat Guide Service said the fall bite, where trophy-sized blue catfish will readily take fresh skipjack herring around the scour holes on the end of wing dikes in the Mississippi River, is on now and should last through the winter.

Fall catfish bite has finally arrived

October 8, 2013 Phillip Gentry

Moderating water levels and falling water temperatures have provided the combination of conditions that Bob Crosby of Blue Cat Guide Service (601-953-5767) loves to see on the Mississippi River. […]