Jenifer Flanagan grew up fishing small ponds, flood-control reservoirs and large river systems like the Tombigbee with her dad, Butch Flanagan of Collinsville — and she learned color does matter when she’s fishing frogs. […]
Josh Cameron prefers a 7-foot rod and 60- to 80-pound braided line to pull big fish from thick grass. […]
Lake Okhissa near Bude is my pick for catching bass during May. Okhissa is a relatively new 1,000-acre lake that’s producing big bass in May, since the bass are coming off the spawn and are feeding heavily and aggressively. […]
Pickwick Lake is not just for smallmouth anymore.
The huge fishing hole, which flows through the northeast corner of Mississippi as well as Alabama and Tennessee, is producing some of the best largemouth bass action in the country. […]
Florida biologists this week announced they have confirmed a new species of black bass, one that so closely resembles a cousin that it was nearly impossible to identify before DNA testing emerged. […]
Josh Cameron pulled up near a shallow grass bed on Pickwick Lake and promptly sailed a frog across the matted grass, and worked it toward the boat. […]
Although it might not set up perfectly for his two favorite post-spawn bass patterns, Madison Bassmaster Elite Series pro Pete Ponds says Okhissa Lake in the Homochitto National Forrest just to the south of Bude off Highway 98 would be his first choice when looking for a lake to fish just to have fun and experiment with different patterns. […]
At lakes with marinas, Pete Ponds knows where he’s going to begin his search for post-spawn bass. That’s because these on-the-water facilities not only present spawning shad the hard surfaces to spawn against, but they also provide lots of shade pockets for bass fry. […]
April is the month when both the spotted and the largemouth bass move to shallow water in Bay Springs Lake located near Booneville. They’re easier to catch this month at Bay Springs than any other month of the year. […]
SPLOOSH! With that one loud splash, a miserable morning on the water suddenly showed promise even though my plastic frog reappeared on the surface of the 200-acre lake.“Aw man, she missed it,” I hollered. […]
Even though she doesn’t do most of the work, the rigors of ensuring the survival of her species take a lot out of a gal. […]
Small bass are judged by length. Whether you are measuring a bass to comply with a length-limit regulation or to surpass some self-imposed threshold for a fish you would keep (even if you don’t keep the fish), it’s a game of inches. […]
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