Veteran guide John Harrison looks forward to fishing Grenada during the spring spawn more than any other time of the year. The spawn is a time when he can catch fish on their own turf, going hand-to-hand with the monster crappie that are home to the lake. […]
1. Patience: You’ve got to have patience to turkey hunt. […]
1. Roost a bird: Locate a gobbler on the roost the night before the hunt. […]
Safety in the woods is paramount during the turkey season when hunters are fully camouflaged. […]
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. […]
Now, despite the vision advantage, even tower fishing can see its valleys of boredom. Maybe it’s a hot summer day when the fish are holding in deeper, cooler water or hiding under rafts of matted vegetation in the marsh. […]
The Spring Gobbler Hunter Survey (SGHS) was initiated in 1996 as a means of collecting long-term data on turkey activity and population numbers. The success of the survey is largely due to voluntary participation by hunters who are interested in assisting with turkey conservation within the state. […]
As an interesting side note, four of the five Mississippi wild turkey record categories have been set in the last three seasons. […]
Veteran angler Jimmy Chambers of Hollandale grew up fishing Lake Washington for bream and crappie and jug fishing for catfish. Deemed a closed-off oxbow, Washington differs from most open-end oxbows like Chotard and Albemarle that directly fluctuate with the Mississippi River. Chambers says that to understand crappie fishing on Washington, you need to understand two things — water levels and cypress trees. […]
How quick are you on the follow-up cast? Can you reel up the first rod, grab a different one and drop a new bait at the point of a missed strike in, say, 10 seconds? A little less? No matter your speed — and assuming you can do it with accuracy — you simply won’t present a follow-up bait faster than a tandem rig. […]
It’s difficult to get tournament anglers to share their competitive advantages, but Magnolia Crappie Club member Bernard Williams let at least one of his cats out of the bag. […]
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