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June 21, 2026

Offshore anglers were all smiles when they heard a fall recreational red snapper fishing season will be held this month.

14-day snapper season to start Oct. 1

September 13, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

State and federal officials announced today that there will be a 14-day recreational red snapper season for fishermen for the first two weeks of October. […]

September and October are two of the best months of the year for speckled trout fishing at the barrier islands.

September is marlin and barrier island time on the Gulf Coast

September 12, 2013 John E. Phillips

Capt. Jimmy Taylor operates the Lauren and the Miss Darsey, both docked at Biloxi Small Craft Harbor. A judge at the World Billfishing Classic held at the Isle of Capri, Taylor has probably caught and released as many marlin as anyone along the Upper Gulf Coast. […]

Anglers should expect more-dynamic management to maximize the quality of crappie fisheries.

The future of fisheries

September 9, 2013 Hal Schramm

Larry Pugh became chief of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks’ Fisheries Bureau on July 1. Pugh earned his masters degree in fisheries at Mississippi State University, and has worked as a biologist for MDWFP for 15 years. He is an avid and accomplished angler. […]

Pete Ponds' favorite late summer pattern is cranking under schools of surface-feeding bass with a lure he helped design, a Bandit Flat Maxx.

Ponds cranked about late summer bass

September 7, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Ask B.A.S.S. Elite Series pro Pete Ponds of Madison about his favorite late summer fishing pattern, and you get no hesitation. […]

Iowa fisherman Chuck Mathieson won the Magnolia Crappie Club's 2012 Big Mama Open with this 2.91-pounder at Grenada Lake.

Magnolia Crappie Club to start 23rd season at Grenada Lake

September 5, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Spiritually, there is no price that can be put on the feel of the thump, the tug on the line and the taste on the tongue of every crappie a fisherman catches in a lifetime. […]

It’s time to get the crankbaits out and ready to roll this month.

Focused on fall fishing

September 5, 2013 Paul Johnson

Writing a column about crappie fishing in August is a tough assignment for me. Y’all know I don’t like fishing in hot weather, and August is about as hot as it gets around these parts. Even under the shade tree at Ross Barnett’s Fannin Landing, temps after mid-morning are intolerable to me. […]

Albert Fortenberry of New Hebron said the water, and the big catfish bite, is on for trotliners fishing downstream from any of Mississippi’s flood control impoundments.

Trotlining river catfish

September 4, 2013 Phillip Gentry

To a river trotliner, water means current and current means catfish. Right now anglers who choose to use this time-tested and highly challenging method for catching catfish have plenty of both, especially downstream from any of Mississippi’s major reservoirs. […]

Kayak bass angler Karl Hudson of Corinth said his paddle boat allows him to target solitary trophy bass that other anglers miss at Pickwick. He claims conditions are good right now for kayakers to find big bass around boat docks.

Targeting Pickwick bass from a kayak

September 3, 2013 Phillip Gentry

Karl Hudson typically doesn’t fish with other people. It’s not that the bass angler, who lives in Corinth, is unsociable, it’s just that he so infrequently has other anglers around the places he prefers to fish. For 40 years Hudson has been a die hard basser, and the last 15 years he’s preferred to be seated in a kayak while he’s doing it. […]