Heartland Region Archives - Page 10 of 25

The MDWFP-sponsored fishing rodeos offer people of all ages, walks and backgrounds the opportunity to participate. At Neshoba County Lake, the rodeos have become a staple of the community.

MDWFP Rodeos spread the fun

May 15, 2015 Phillip Gentry

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks knows how difficult it is to hook new fishermen, and how important it can be to provide access to anglers who no longer can fish on their own. […]

Slice a pool noodle the way you would a pineapple, ending up with several thumb-sized pieces. The noodle chuck can be placed on the hook and slathered in prepared bait.

This ‘noodling is’ for hook and line

May 15, 2015 Phillip Gentry

For rod-and-reel anglers, applying any of the many varieties of dip bait or stink bait concoctions to small pieces of the noodles is geat for catfish. […]

Don’t overlook sandbars at the mouths of backwater areas at Ross Barnett in May.

Key on the pads at Ross Barnett

May 13, 2015 Paul Elias

This month bass should have completed spawning, be moving out of the lily pads and toward their deepwater summer patterns, and schooling in and on the edges of the lily pads, as well as in open water. […]

A productive trip to Neshoba County Lake can be as simple as buying a box of crickets or worms, rigging some poles and taking home a nice stringer of bluegill.

Neshoba County beasts — How to catch trophy bass at this MDWFP lake

May 1, 2015 Phillip Gentry

In any serious discussion about big bass locations in Mississippi, there’s one body of water that’s always in the Top 10 but rarely at the top of the list. […]

Jenifer Flanagan, fishing manager at Bass Pro Shops in Pearl, displays a trophy limbhanger gobbler killed near north of Meridian on April 18. The bird had a thick 10 1/2-inch paintbrush beard, 1 1/4 inch sharp curved spurs and weighed 19.5 pounds.

Hunter gets her limb-hanger

April 30, 2015 Michael O. Giles

Jenifer Flanagan was brimming with anticipation as she waited expectantly for a gobble in the quiet pre-dawn darkness at her hunting camp near Topton in Lauderdale County. […]

Beginning on Oct. 1, all boaters on Barnett Reservoir near Jackson will have to pay a user fee, either by purchase of an annual permit (boat sticker) or a 10-day pass. The move was taken by reservoir officials to raise revenues badly needed for aging boating infrastructure on the 50-year-old lake.

Barnett Reservoir Board passes lake user fee

April 20, 2015 Mississippi Sportsman

Beginning Oct. 1 2015, boaters on Ross Barnett Reservoir will be required to pay a lake user fee under a plan passed Thursday by the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District Board of Directors. […]

Jay Brainard of Enid, Okla., finished second in the Bassmaster Central Open on Barnett Reservoir by flipping and skipping docks in Main Harbor.

Brainard’s boat dock pattern nearly wins

March 17, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

When Jay Brainard figures his expenses for fishing the Bassmaster Central Open on Barnett Reservoir, boat gas won’t be a very big factor for the second place finisher. […]

Gene Bishop of Ridgeland posted a three-day total of 55 pounds, 14 ounces to win the B.A.S.S. Central Open on Barnett Reservoir.

Bishop has Classic finish on Barnett

March 15, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Gene Bishop is going to the 2016 Bassmaster Classic.

“Man, I’m just starting to realize what a big deal this is — I am going to the Classic,” he said, shortly after clinching the B.A.S.S. Central Open on Barnett Reservoir Saturday. “I can’t believe it. […]

Gene Bishop of Ridgeland relied on a proven technique on Barnett Reservoir to win the Bassmaster Central Open this week — swimming an 8-inch lizard through shallow vegetation to find pre-spawn bass. Bishop used Zoom Magnum Lizard in a June Bug pattern.

Bishop’s winning way — swimming a lizard

March 15, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

It is a pattern nearly as old as Barnett Reservoir, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, swimming a lizard through shallow vegetation to catch pre-spawn bass.

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