The Louisiana Sportsman Open bass tournament – South Louisiana’s richest tournament – is just more than a week away, with the first-place team walking away with $10,000 and the total payout based on 100 boats reaching nearly $28,000.
If 100 teams sign up for the Louisiana Sportsman Open, the tournament will pay out a total of $27,375 – which is $7,375 more than total entry fees. […]
Five students received Excellence in Marine Sciences Awards during the Region VI Science and Engineering Fair held Wednesday (Feb. 29) at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced.
The MDMR-sponsored award was established to encourage local students to develop research projects involving Mississippi’s coastal resources. […]
What happened to that bad winter we were supposed to have? Didn’t the local weather gurus promise one of the coldest winters last fall? I’m not complaining, mind you. And I know you fishermen aren’t either. Talk about some really great wintertime fishing — boy, this has been nice! […]
Whoever said that familiarity breeds contempt was not talking about their marine electronics. The plain and simple truth is that the better you know your electronics, the more they can do for you. As a “for instance,” I’m still learning about the side- and down-scanning features on the newer Humminbird and Lowrance sonar units. […]
Maynor Creek Water Park, consisting of about 500 acres and located near Waynesboro, once was a very productive bass-fishing lake before going into a downturn, but it’s currently making a comeback.
Big bass are being caught again at this lake that once produced numbers of 10-pounders. The lake was drawn down several years ago to repair the dam. Because of that drawdown, the buck willows and other groves of trees flourished on what was the lake bottom. When the lake was brought back to normal pool, an abundance of cover had sprung up close to the shoreline in the shallow water. […]
“If you have young folks, old folks or a bunch of buddies who want to go fishing and have their strings stretched, their rods bent and their muscles crying for relief, come fish with us at Bay St. Louis Bridge on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in March,” says Capt. Kyle Jarreau of Shore Thing Fishing Charters. […]
Biologists know the basic biology of crappie and have made great strides forward to manage them. Yet, many questions remained unanswered. […]
Bass anglers are visual creatures. We like blinking metal flake on our boats. We like crankbaits that push the limits of the color wheel. And we like throwing to targets that we can see.
That’s why I was so impressed when Kenny Churchill idled into Cane Creek on Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson. My eyes immediately told me that Cane Creek is what I would call a target-rich environment.
The co-owner of Performance Outboards wanted to show me how to fish the winter remnants of lily pad flats that carpet Ross Barnett Reservoir during the summer. […]
In the early 1940s, the Gulf of Mexico held a large population of saltwater striped bass. Like the salmon out west, these stripers remained out in the Gulf until they were mature and then moved inland to fresh water to spawn. After spawning, they returned to the Gulf. The baby stripers born in fresh water also swam back to the Gulf of Mexico. […]
While watching a fishing show about 15 years ago, Kenny Churchill saw a couple professional bass anglers fishing Rat-L-Traps through standing lily pad stems. They were catching a lot of fish, but the one thing he noticed was how much they were staying hung and how hard they were working to free their baits. […]
Petal’s Cliff Pace has fished pad-stem flats all over the country as he travels to fish the Bassmaster Elite Series tournaments, and he has put together a solid explanation as to why bass love getting around the shallow stems. […]
The prominent V wake was unmistakable, even from my camera boat positioned 50 feet from the anglers working a grass line. […]
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