Emergency position indicating radio beacons (EPIRBs) have long been required equipment on commercial vessels and a smart addition for all larger boats. The introduction of the personal locator beacon (PLB), a smaller and manually operated version of the EPIRB, has spread the use of maritime distress beacons to smaller boats and to inland users on both land and water. […]
As the weather warms, Mississippi bass will be moving to the spawning flats. I like to fish Turkey Creek in Decatur in March. This 400- to 500-acre lake has several pockets and arms with lily pads, which generally provide excellent spawning flats for bass. The stems represent the vertical structure that bass like to hold around, and the pads on the surface offer cover and shade. Baitfish, bream, crappie and all types of fish besides bass like to live under the lily pads. […]
Spring. The water has warmed to 62 degrees in shallow coves and pockets. Time for bass to start bedding. […]
Funny how things have evolved in crappie fishing, isn’t it? I mean, if you’re like me, you’ve tried lots of different things to catch a white perch. […]
If you think your 13-year-old daughter is temperamental and mercurial, you haven’t ever spent much time with a Florida-strain largemouth bass. […]
As many crappie anglers know, March ushers in what the rest of the world refers to as “crappie season.” This can be a time of feast or famine with the major determining factors being wind and weather. […]
It continually amazes me how things have changed since the days of my youth. Faced with the modern-day diversions of cell phones, video games, text messages, personal computers and myspace accounts, it is a wonder kids of today ever look to the outdoors for entertainment. […]
Has the time come in your bass-fishing life that you are ready to catch the one trophy fish to mount or have a replica mount made? Is there a space on your den wall that you are saving for the bass of a lifetime to fill so that it will remind you visually of that day when the hook held and the line didn’t break? […]
Every now and then I’ll hear someone at a tackle shop or out at a launch ramp give advice on caring for electronics that stands my hair on end. The most frequent category of advice is how to clean LCD screens or, more accurately, the protective lenses that cover them. […]
To catch February bass, fish 4,144-acre Okatibbee Lake, near Meridian. You’ll catch plenty of 12- to 14-inch fish at Okatibbee, and 5-pounders aren’t uncommon. […]
Mississippi may soon join the ranks of states like California, Florida, South Carolina and Texas as a good place to catch trophy largemouth bass. […]
O.K., it’s February and nobody in their right mind would talk crappie fishing now. […]
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