April 2015 Archives - Mississippi Sportsman

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Legendary bass and inshore angler Bernie Schultz helped design the Hildebrandt Drum Roller.

Hildebrandt Drum Roller

April 29, 2015 Don Shoopman

Want a unique and improved spinnerbait on your side when you go redfish fishing for pleasure or for money? […]

Panoptix’s view can be altered to show depths in colors, making it easy to determine depth of cover, contours and fish at a glance.

Almost live TV

April 23, 2015 Allan Tarvid

One of the most-difficult aspects of teaching fishermen and boaters to interpret conventional sonar screens has been getting them to understand how a screen picture is made. […]

This buck, which was wounded at the bottom of the chest a week before, bled as if it had been shot in the liver. But survived until it was killed chasing a doe.

Unravelling a blood trail

April 20, 2015 Bill Garbo

One recent cold, damp January morning, as I sat in my ground blind watching and hoping for a mature late-season buck, my cell phone in the pocket of my coat vibrated. […]

Working a Reel N’ Shad on a Pickwick pea gravel point is a great way to catch bass this month.

Load the boat with bass this month at Pickwick

April 16, 2015 Paul Elias

You can load the boat at Pickwick Lake this month with bass, if you’re not too choosy about what type of bass you want to catch — largemouths, smallmouths and spots. […]

In lakes with good shad populations, like Flint Creek Water Park, bass come straight off the beds to gorge themselves on spawning shad.

No post-spawn lull at Flint Creek

April 15, 2015 Phillip Gentry

Late April can be a tough time when a lot of the big female largemouth bass have dropped their eggs and are in that dreaded transition from spawn to post- spawn, and anglers hit the lake expecting to battle “lockjaw.” […]

Clear Water = long-lining crappie success

April 15, 2015 Phillip Gentry

In clear waters, many crappie anglers think that long-line trolling is a great way to target crappie from a distance. […]

Fishing at Flint Creek

April 15, 2015 Phillip Gentry

Scenic lakeside cabins offer fishermen comfort and immediate access to Flint Creek’s 650-acre lake and incredible fishing. […]

Steve Coleman likes a 12-foot pole, or longer, for trolling and for jigging. It gives greater reach.

Long poles vs. short poles

April 15, 2015 John J. Woods

On the surface, choosing a long or short jigging pole for crappie might seem like a no-brainer issue.

But is it? […]

Carry a wide selection of wildly colored jigs, given options for any kind of water clarity, which, in Mississippi, can range from clear to chocolate milk.

In most situations, go with bright jigs

April 15, 2015 John J. Woods

Jerry Gross of Meatgetter Jigs of Rison, Ark., is one crappie fishing fool — and, I mean that in a good way. […]

Top chinquapin baits

April 15, 2015 David A. Brown

Aggressive and gluttonous as any schooling fish, chinquapin are hardly picky. Nevertheless, catering to their tastes and preferences will earn you more love. […]

A feisty shellfish, the chinquapin puts up a respectable fight on light tackle.

Best tactics for bedding chinquapin

April 15, 2015 David A. Brown

When chinquapin move in shallow to spawn, the ensuing game of tempting and taunting them to bite can become much like bed fishing for largemouth bass. […]

Breaks in riprap jetties behind the hotels and casinos lure big flounder to the front beaches in April, in easy reach of fishermen.

Ground mullet, flounder should be on the menu

April 15, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Biloxi’s Rob Thomas is a near-shore fanatic who will wade fish but usually stays in his 18-foot skiff or his 12-foot kayak. […]

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