It might sound funny, and it certainly looks amusing, but a wacky-rigged stick worm is a tough rig to beat when the big females are staging for the spawn and the fishing conditions get tough. […]
You’ll find Bogue Homa Lake just a few miles out of Laurel, where I live. The fourth year of a lake being stocked is when you start catching bigger bass, and this will be about the fourth year for Bogue Homa. […]
Faced with a deadline to get a TV segment shot for that night, cameraman Wesley Harris and I couldn’t give in to the treacherous weather conditions Tuesday (March 5). […]
Pickles and ice cream, donuts with lots of sprinkles, Cheese Whiz and anything with chocolate – pregnancy cravings are a fact of life, for a soon-to-be mom eating for two (or more).
Expectant bass might not crave anything odd, but they’re all about packing their bellies for their forthcoming spawn. Learn where and how to locate these fish and you can, ahem, “expect” your own delivery of rod-bending fun.
First, consider the basics of where they’ll spawn. Creeks, coves, backwater canals. Pretty much any shallow habitat with good sunlight and some type of cover will do. […]
With any prespawn bait, Bassmaster Elite Series pro Greg Hackney said fluorocarbon is essential during cold spells. […]
Common ground isn’t so common anymore.
Politics empowers us to believe our side is always right. […]
The old cliche about spinnerbaits being underwater crescent wrenches because they are adjustable to any fishing situation might be played out, but Brandon resident and Ross Barnett regular Mike Murphy believes there are just as many differences between spinnerbaits in their packaging as there are changes anglers can make to them once they take them out. […]
Steve Grace launched his bass boat on Lake Neshoba just before noon on Feb. 15, one of the few we’ve had with sunshine this year. Grace and partner Jeff Collum had a little time off from work and decided to try the bass on a beautiful February day.
“We pulled up on a flat right off of a main point and tried to locate some bass,” Grace said. “We knew it was early and they wouldn’t be pulled up tight to the point yet, but we figured we might catch some near there, since there was deep water right off the flat.” […]
Last weekend’s rains and this week’s cooler temperatures have slowed what was rapidly becoming an early spring for Mississippi fishermen, and another big delay is rapidly approaching.
A cold front forecast to drop lows below freezing Friday and Saturday nights in most of Mississippi will make finding bass and crappie more difficult.
And that’s not the worst news. […]
In February, you can catch some really big largemouths and smallmouths on Pickwick Lake in the northeastern corner of the state. Toward the end of the month, the bass will start staging to move into the creeks and up on the flats for the spawn. […]
This month, I’m picking Lake Ross Barnett, near Jackson. To find the bass, we’ve got to shrink the lake and concentrate on where they’re most likely to be and the lures they’re most likely to take. […]
Ross Barnett is my bass-fishing pick for February, and we’ll fish this lake with baits we can bang against rocks, lily-pad stems and vegetation. […]
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