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June 21, 2026

With good reason, the recommended tactics for crappie fishing on both Sardis and Enid are ones that keep anglers on the move.

August crappie-fishing forecast

August 15, 2013 Phillip Gentry

The most-commonly recommended techniques for catching mobile crappie in August are all trolling tactics — power trolling, tight-lining double minnow rigs and trolling crankbaits. […]

Ole Miss graduate student Dylan Williams describes a day of locating a needle in a haystack.

Study is like finding a needle in a haystack

August 15, 2013 Phillip Gentry

While following a bunch of radio transmitter-outfitted fish around all day might seem like an attempt at herding cats, Ole Miss graduate student Dylan Williams, who handled much of the legwork of the study, said it’s all in a day’s work. […]

Anything holds tripletail

August 15, 2013 Mississippi Sportsman

Capt. Kenny Shiyou tells anglers to never pass anything on the surface without looking for a tripletail. […]

Capt. Kenny Shiyou and Dan Smith of Ridgeland sit by a full box of speckled trout and redfish, topped by three tripletails. The tripletails give a cooling finish to a summer day of fishing in the Mississippi Sound.

Capt. Kenny Shiyou’s tripletail fishing tips

August 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

• Rod and reel: A good medium-heavy or heavy-action spinning rod, 6 ½ or 7 feet, with a quality spinning reel that is easy to cast. […]

If the tide slacks and everything else slows, the tripletails bite.

Best fishing tackle for tripletail

August 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

One thing that the Shore Thing charter captains agree on is the tackle used to wrestle tripletail to the boat. […]

Capt. Shiyou in Bay St. Louis with a 25.7-pound tripletail caught on an extremely hot summer day in August.

Tagging program looks to learn more about tripletail

August 15, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Capt. Sonny Schindler said the education process for all fishermen, including Shiyou, continues with every trip. […]

James Patterson hoists a good sized flathead out of the Mississippi River. Flatheads prefer live bait to stink bait.

Things to know

August 15, 2013 David Hawkins

Vicksburg angler Walter Scott offered these tips for catfishing the Mighty Mississippi: […]

Madison angler Don Drane was badly injured in 2011 when he was thrown from his boat, which then ran over him. He wasn't wearing his life jacket or making use of the outboard's kill switch when he went into the water.

Angler learns PFD lesson the hard way

August 13, 2013 Mississippi Sportsman

I had carefully followed the instruction book for breaking in the new 15-horsepower Yamaha: One full hour at half-throttle or less. […]

Head to the Chandeleur Islands this month for some great trout action.

Chandeleur Islands crank up

August 13, 2013 John E. Phillips

Capt. Robbie Thornton of Southern Sports Fishing’s The IV said August is a great month to go to the Chandeleur Islands. […]

Sunrises and sunsets produce the best big-bite action at Jeff Davis Lake, as Dan Smith of Jackson shows with this rare 22-inch largemouth caught on a ScumDog.

Jeff Davis continues to produce football bass

August 10, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Tommy Sutton wanted to throw a crankbait on Jeff Davis Lake, but knew better and settled for soft plastics. […]

Zach Rhynehardt loves catching specks with his dad and Capt. Ronnie Daniels of Fisher-Man Guide Service.

Reef rewards

August 9, 2013 Sam Davis

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain,” Dolly Parton once said. […]

Bass anglers love to see a hydrilla-filled cove because the vegetation concentrates fish.

Hydrilla: The biology of fish habitat

August 9, 2013 Hal Schramm

Aquatic plants are good for fish and good for fishing. But, like many things, too much of a good thing can be bad. Such is the case with hydrilla. […]