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Give Rob Doherty a decent late fall or early winter day and he will find bass, like these two "green trout" from the Jourdan River.

South Mississippi deer sluggish? Try bass

November 20, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Early deer season is often a struggle in South Mississippi, where warm temperatures and inactive bucks and does can make even the most devout hunters think about… […]

Maynor Creek is an old reservoir, but it still holds some quality fish.

Maynor Creek for November bass

November 19, 2012 Paul Elias

During November, we’ll be fishing 500-acre Maynor Creek, located just outside of Waynesboro, where numbers of big bass live. […]

Tommy Sutton holds up two of the striped bass taken on Barnett Reservoir on a blustery afternoon ahead of a cold front in early November.

Stripers by the boatload at Barnett

November 9, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

My fishing partners and my loyal readers all know that I am an avid striped bass and hybrid striped bass chaser on Ross Barnett Reservoir. […]

A swim jig can be deadly for fall bass when fishing around cover like lily pads because it won't spook wary bass like spinnerbaits can this time of year.

Frenzied bass can’t resist swimming jig

October 25, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

We weren’t even on Barnett Reservoir to fish Tuesday (Oct. 23), just riding around the upper river backwaters to look at the effects of recent aquatic vegetation spraying efforts. […]

Bogue Homa Lake is known for a lot of smaller fish, but there are some big bass prowling about the reservoir.

Bet on Bogue Homa this month

October 15, 2012 Paul Elias

Restocked about four years ago, Bogue Homa Lake is really producing a lot of bass, with a few weighing 5 to 7 pounds. Bogue Homa is about 1,000 acres with plenty of grass, lily pads and cypress trees, as well as well-defined creek channels with stumps sitting in them. […]

Calling Panther Lake gave up a 20-inch plus bass to Dan Smith's ScumDog plastic frog.

Frog provides dessert at Panther

September 24, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

As we have many times in the past few years when we need fillets quickly for a weekend fish fry, my partner and I hooked up the boat and headed to Calling Panther Lake near Crystal Springs Wednesday (Sept. 19).

The 500-acre Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks lake didn’t let us down. Using spinning gear, 8-pound fluorocarbon leader off 10-pound braid, and drop shot worms, we quickly started picking off our targets — undersized bass that are in great number in Panther.

So much so that MDWFP biologists urge fishermen to take as many as they want, up to 30 apiece a day, of bass under 20 inches. […]

September is a great time to be on Ross Barnett because fish will move shallow again to feed.

Get shallow in September for Ross Barnett bass

September 10, 2012 Paul Elias

The bass are moving out of their deepwater summer patterns and into shallow water in September. Two patterns — fishing the riprap and the lily pads — will work all month, but they’ll probably produce better in the middle and at the end of the month. […]