Last weekend’s rains and this week’s cooler temperatures have slowed what was rapidly becoming an early spring for Mississippi fishermen, and another big delay is rapidly approaching.
A cold front forecast to drop lows below freezing Friday and Saturday nights in most of Mississippi will make finding bass and crappie more difficult.
And that’s not the worst news. […]
In February, you can catch some really big largemouths and smallmouths on Pickwick Lake in the northeastern corner of the state. Toward the end of the month, the bass will start staging to move into the creeks and up on the flats for the spawn. […]
Finding speckled trout and redfish in the marshes and bayous is a gamble in February because those areas are affected by the weather and wind. […]
Mason Porter of Houlka is a devout crappie fisherman. He’s a member of the Magnolia Crappie Club and Crappie.com, and fishes events on both tournament circuits. […]
Plano has introduced the Flex ‘N Go Tackle Satchel for the angler on the go. This adaptable system allows fishermen to be prepared for largemouth bass today, striperd bass tomorrow and even your favorite saltwater species for the weekend. […]
This month, I’m picking Lake Ross Barnett, near Jackson. To find the bass, we’ve got to shrink the lake and concentrate on where they’re most likely to be and the lures they’re most likely to take. […]
Trolling over a submerged stump field, Jeff Collum pitched his jig-and-pig combo to a likely looking spot, and hesitated for just a second when a bass struck. Collum reared back, and drove the steel home, deep into the lip of a cold-weather lunker.
After a nip-and-tuck battle, the talented angler landed the lunker bass and quickly released him.
Collum, a Meridian resident, has been catching bass and lots of them since he was just a youngster tagging along with his dad Gordon Collum. The Collums are well known around the East Mississippi area for their bass-fishing expertise. Jeff has taken it a step further and become one of the anglers to beat in almost any tournament in which he competes. […]
Fishing for catfish in the winter on the Mississippi River? OK, nobody in their right minds would go after trophy-class record-book blue catfish on the Mississippi River, especially in the winter.
No?
Well, you obviously have not been introduced to Bob Crosby of Madison and his catfishing buddy Bill Conlee of Pocahontas. And we’re not just talking about catching big catfish here either. These guys want the state-record catfish in the boat and in the record book. That’s a tall order indeed.
Ross Barnett is my bass-fishing pick for February, and we’ll fish this lake with baits we can bang against rocks, lily-pad stems and vegetation. […]
Angling for Florida strain largemouth bass has always been something of a challenge. When the big sows get on the bed that challenge is multiplied in spades by the fickleness of the female.
Many bass anglers have watched as the their baits are carried away by females, but hook-sets only result in baits flying back toward the anglers with the ferocity of an angry bird.
The United States Forest Service has only a few fishing lakes in Mississippi. Of those, Okhissa Lake near Bude has to be considered the crown jewel. […]
Hoot Gibson scanned the surface of Neshoba County Lake. He detected the telltale swirl of a bedding bass in the upper end of the lake and instantly sent a lure her way. […]
Bass won’t fan out beds just anywhere, so Bassmaster Elite Series pro Pete Ponds ignores all but the most-conducive areas. […]
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