Bass Fishing
Turbidity and bass feeding
Catching bass when the water turns muddy can be challenging. Here’s how to up your odds of catching fish. […]
Fishing
Bass Fishing
Fish Pickwick for rod-bending December bass
How to catch nice-sized largemouths, big smallmouths, white bass, stripers and hybrids all in the same day at Pickwick Lake in December. […]
Featured
Winter fishing hot spots
Mississippi is blessed with great fishing opportunities on every page of the calendar, and some of it is saved for the last page: December.
Features
Embrace the change
December marks transition time from fall to winter for Mississippi’s saltwater gamefish. Learn how to get in their way. […]
Columns
Crackin’ Craw
If you want to catch bass or redfish, you better get crackin’.
Artificial lure manufacturer Zach Dubois, who specializes in soft plastics, has watched the fairly new Crackin’ Craw — a crawfish imitation — take the bass fishing world by storm. And to his pleasant surprise, it’s also become a go-to bait for redfish along the coast. […]
Bass Fishing
Put a skirt on – and punch that jig
Punch skirts are popular with many bass anglers because they turn normal creature baits into essentially jig presentations. […]
Field Notes
Add a topwater ‘shock absorber’
Topwater strikes make anglers’ knees go weak, but the thrill of victory can quickly turn to crushing defeat when monster bass pull off. […]
Field Notes
One man’s trash … is another man’s treasure when it comes to old lures
To some anglers, they’re “gut piles.” To others, they’re “dead soldiers.” […]
Bass Fishing
Top 3 wintertime bass baits
Bass pro Keith Combs has to put fish in the boat year-round, but he experiences what every other angler does during the summer: tough fishing, when five bites a day are what you hope for. […]
Catfish
Catfish do suspend, but why?
Biologists and anglers have theorized what causes catfish to suspend off the bottom at different times, with feeding, water quality, oxygen, and thermoclines being the most-common answers.
Catfish
Reservoir cats also suspend but can be caught
While the Mississippi River is probably the best-known catfish producer in the state, many of Mississippi’s reservoirs also hold their share of decent blue catfish. […]
Inshore Fishing
Sheepshead ugly and, boy, what teeth …
Sheepshead got their name for a reason: their faces forevermore look like those of sheep, with teeth that can do harm to weak hooks and an ill-placed finger. […]