Delta Region Archives - Page 18 of 25

Bates has caught just as many white bass in the afternoon as he has in the morning, and even if they do stop biting up shallow later in the day, they bite just as well when they move out to deeper water.

Blakemore Road Runners a national white bass favorite

June 1, 2012 Chris Ginn

When most anglers think about white bass fishing, the first lure that comes to mind is a Blakemore Road Runner. […]

Huner Amanda Coutch killed her first turkey, this four-bearded gobbler, on the last day of the season.

Warren County hunter nabs four-bearded gobbler

May 3, 2012 John J. Woods

The outdoors was always where Amanda Brock Coutch would rather be. Working in the yard to deer hunting or fishing with her granddad were her favorite things to do. […]

A jig fished through the flooded willows on Lake Ferguson this month can produce jarring strikes.

Two faces of Lake Ferguson in May

May 1, 2012 Paul Elias

Lake Ferguson, an oxbow off the Mississippi River near Greenville, will have high water up in the willows on the north side of the lake if our area continues to have spring rains like we’ve been experiencing.

But if the Mississippi River doesn’t rise, you still can catch bass at Lake Ferguson if you’ll fish the other side of the lake and use different tactics. […]

Sandy Tackett, fishing with her dad, Andy, caught this beautiful 3.23-pounder.

Washington too good to pass up

April 1, 2012 Paul Johnson

I know, I know, I know — last month’s “As Big As They Grow” column was all about Lake Washington. But I can’t help but share the following Lake Washington update, especially as it relates to the crappie tournament action and the great fishing at Washington so far this spring. […]

Winners of last year’s Washington tournament were Steve and David White of Monticello, Ark. This was the only MCC tournament these anglers fished.

Snakebit

March 1, 2012 Paul Johnson

What happened to that bad winter we were supposed to have? Didn’t the local weather gurus promise one of the coldest winters last fall? I’m not complaining, mind you. And I know you fishermen aren’t either. Talk about some really great wintertime fishing — boy, this has been nice! […]

Michael Rogillio downed a beautiful 10-point typical buck at Giles Island about two months after his dad nailed a 175-inch non-typical brute at the same place.

Giles Island makes like-father-like-son wish come true

February 9, 2012 Craig Holt

Michael Rogillio was happy when his father Ricky Rogillio downed a double drop-tine whitetail trophy on Nov. 30 while hunting at Giles Island Hunting Club. But the 22-year-old never dreamed he’d have a chance to find out what the saying “like father, like son” meant 61 days later at the same place. […]

Public-land Delta turkey hunters face stricter regulations after successive flooding of the Mississippi River lowlands, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced.

Turkey season changes on southern Delta WMAs

February 8, 2012 MDWFP news release

Flooding of the Mississippi River delta over the past several years has resulted in changes to turkey-hunting season changes on wildlife management areas in the southern reaches of that popular area of the state, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced earlier this month.

These changes impact Mahannah, Shipland, Sunflower and Twin Oaks WMAs. […]

The author and his tournament partner, Tommy Moss of Brandon, fished Eagle on Jan. 5, and caught several really good fish jigging the piers. Their best seven weighed just over 13 pounds. Fishing 4 feet deep under piers with wooden supports seemed to be the key.

Delta dominance

February 1, 2012 Paul Johnson

Boy, am I pumped or what! Just about the time I thought I had run out of words to use in this crappie column, someone sends me a picture of some recently caught Eagle Lake slabs. […]

Terry Bates and the author display a few of the bass that they caught and released on President’s Day last year.

A Day on Lake Ferguson

February 1, 2012 Michael O. Giles

Roaring up Lake Ferguson in his Ranger boat wide open and on full plane, Terry Bates suddenly backed off the throttle and made a quick left turn up into “the chute.” […]

During February, anglers catch a lot of crappie by fishing giant balls of bait out in the middle of the lake.

Crappie Connection

February 1, 2012 Chris Ginn

To hear Chotard Landing Resort manager Mark Johnson explain it, the shoreline of the lake just outside his back door stretched from the Louisiana levee to the Mississippi levee just about a year ago. […]

Water depth will change the way crappie anglers need to approach fishing cypress trees. As water rises, fish concentrate more on horizontal structure like limbs and knees that stick out away from the main trunk.

Crappie fishing notes

February 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

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. […]

This buck, killed by Harvey Guillot on Davis Island, featured a rack with a 26 1/8-inch spread. It has green scored at almost 180 inches B&C.

Massive Davis Island 9-point stretches tape to nearly 180 inches

January 26, 2012 Glynn Harris

With his week of vacation coming agonizingly to a close on Dec. 30, Harvey Guillot cashed in on a magnificent 9-point buck at the last minute on his Rosedale Hunting Club on Davis Island, and it did it in an unconventional way. […]