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Early Bird Gets the Crappie

January 26, 2011 Chris Ginn

Anglers are notorious for jumping the gun. Just as soon as Jack Frost quits nipping at their noses, they hook up their boats and hit the lakes. For too many, though, they find that the fishing doesn’t match the forecast. […]

Cover: February 2011

January 26, 2011 Mississippi Sportsman

Yankee outdoorsmen hate February, but here in the South, there’s no end to this month’s opportunities. […]

Perfecta Bass Rods

January 26, 2011 Mississippi Sportsman

Pinnacle has introduced a new series of 15 custom-quality rods that cover a wide range of bass-fishing situations. […]

EGO Landing Net

January 26, 2011 Mississippi Sportsman

The revolutionary EGO S2 Slider landing net and fishing accessories product system features the most advanced handle extension technology available. […]

Prolong SPL100

January 26, 2011 Mississippi Sportsman

Designed to clean, lubricate and protect metal surfaces, the Prolong SPL100 can be used for a variety of automotive uses, including preventing corrosion, freeing rusty parts or reducing friction on tools or equipment exposed to water. […]

Costa sunglasses

January 26, 2011 Mississippi Sportsman

Costa is celebrating the new year by introducing its newest pair of polarized performance shades, Fantail. […]

Spoon Fed

January 26, 2011 Jeff Bruhl

In the deep freeze of winter, many outdoorsmen are camouflaging their clothing and pursuing deer and other game. Anglers who have a passion for bass face the elements for the chance of landing a trophy without horns. […]

Bang the bass at Ross Barnett

January 26, 2011 Paul Elias

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. […]

Sometimes an angler just has to grab a big cat anyway he can to manage it in the boat. Conlee and Crosby catch and release all their catfish hoping they get bigger for another day on the river.

Big Blues on the Big Muddy

January 26, 2011 John J. Woods

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. […]

The author caught this bass on a black/blue/purple Hoot Gibson jig with a junebug Paca Craw worm used as a trailer.

A Day on Lake X

January 26, 2011 Michael O. Giles

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. […]

The river bottom of most spillways is littered with crappie-holding debris, but it will often cost you a few jigs.

Spillway Spectacular

January 7, 2011 Phillip Gentry

“The colder the weather, the better the fishing gets” is the way professional angler Kent Driscoll describes the crappie fishing behind the dam at Ross Barnett Reservoir.

The spillway that turns the Pearl River impoundment back into the Pearl River is a well-known hotspot for crappie anglers throughout the year. One reason for the magnetism of the area is the moving water spilling through the dam draws baitfish from the far reaches of the Pearl and also from the Ross Barnett impoundment itself. […]

Johnny Smith of McCall Creek loves to catch “hubcaps” on Chotard in the winter.

It’s time for winter’s hubcaps

December 28, 2010 Paul Johnson

Winter is here, and, from where I sit, cold-weather crappie fishing keeps growing in popularity. There are ever-growing numbers of serious, hardcore crappie anglers who know that winter in the Deep South, especially here in Mississippi, can produce the largest lunkers of the year. […]