February 2018 Archives - Page 2 of 3

Shooting under docks to get to hard-to-reach crappie is normally best done with a round-head jig that flutters when it falls.

When to tip a jig with a minnow

February 15, 2018 Phillip Gentry

No discussion about jigs is complete without a discussion of how and when to pair live minnows with jigs for crappie. […]

Having a quality depth finder on your bass boat and knowing how to use it to locate baitfish and bass is a key to better prespawn fishing.

Get the right gear

February 15, 2018 David Hawkins

For prespawn bass, angler Donnie Stuart of Pelahatchie favors 17-pound braided line with a fluorocarbon leader as long as the rod he is using when not using a slip-cork. For the rod with the slip cork he uses a 10- to 12-pound monofilament. […]

One of the author’s nephews with a fully mature buck taken after a long, quiet hike to the stand.

Food for thought:

February 14, 2018 Bill Garbo

By the time you are reading this, unless you live in the extreme southern part of Mississippi, the 2017-2018 deer season will already be “in the books,” as they say. […]

In February, Ross Barnett bass will be in the prespawn mode; you may catch a good number of bass that will weigh 4 pounds or more.

February bassing at Ross Barnett

February 12, 2018 Paul Elias

I think February is the best month of the year to fish Ross Barnett Reservoir for bass, which are in the prespawn mode and moving shallow. In many sections of the country — and Mississippi — you will often be fishing for bass in deep water in February, but on Ross Barnett, you’ll catch most of your fish in water 3 feet deep or less. […]

Robert Allen with a Marshall County hawg.

February fishing hot spots

February 12, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

The second month is a transition period for many Mississippians, who trade their bows and firearms for poles and rod and reels. Any little stretch of decent warm weather and, wham!, it’s on. […]

Once Feb. 1 rolls around, rabbit hunters with a good pack of dogs are some of the most popular sportsman in the world. Deer season is over and invitations to rabbit hunt come in almost daily.

Rabbit hunters take center stage

February 8, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

February is also a great time to own a pack of rabbit dogs. […]

A dying art, it might seem, squirrel hunting remains Mississippi’s top small game target.

Bushytails best beware

February 7, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi’s No. 1 small-game animal remains the squirrel, although hunting pressure continues to plummet. The number of squirrel hunters in the state has dropped by half over the past 50 years. […]

A large pallid sturgeon caught on a trotline in the Mississippi River near Natchez.

Mississippi’s oldest fish

February 5, 2018 Hal Schramm

The Mississippi waters of the Mississippi River are home to pallid sturgeon and shovelnose sturgeon. Unlike many other sturgeon in North America and worldwide that migrate between the ocean and freshwater to complete their life cycle, the pallid and shovelnose sturgeon complete their life cycles entirely in rivers. […]