Robbie Bridges rocked his bass boat with great force when he set the hook, and immediately asked for help.
“Get the net … it’s a big ’un,” he hollered. “When I set the hook, I couldn’t move her. If she hadn’t shook her head, I’d swear I had hung up in the rocks.” […]
February’s the best month to fish Ross Barnett Reservoir just outside Jackson because it warms up quickly. Bass always pull into shallow water there in February to prepare for the spawn. […]
I enjoy fishing 4,144-acre Okatibbee Lake near Meridian during January. With its 28 miles of shoreline, the lake is an important feature in the development of the Pascagoula River Basin, a project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized by Congress in 1962 for flood reduction on 26,000 acres of residential, industrial and agricultural lands along Okatibbee Creek and the upper Chickasawhay River. […]
Jim and Barbara Reedy fish all over the country on the Crappie Masters tournament trail, where they encounter many different scenarios in which to find fish. […]
Many fish attractor sites were created in 2011 and 2015, and most were marked with GPS and the coordinates are listed below. Be sure your GPS is set to read decimal degrees (shown below) and not degrees-minutes-seconds when attempting to locate these attractors. […]
After a rumor of an Asian silver (flying) carp being caught below the dam at Barnett Reservoir were confirmed as true by state wildlife officials, the online jokes began immediately. […]
Fifteen-year-old Olivia Triplett had one request of her father Nov. 26.
“Daddy, we’re going hunting,” she said. “I want to go hunting where those big-boned deer are, like up at Carthage or Canton.” […]
Eddie Harrell killed his first buck at Tallahalla Wildlife Management Area when he was only 12 years old. […]
Scott Thomas said he misses having a deer called Top Hat around, though the tall and thick 160-inch 9-point buck is already hanging on his wall at his home in Madison. […]
Eleven-year-old Dalton Bishop harvested his first rack buck last year, but he’d set his sights on a much bigger deer when grandfather Jerry Bishop captured an image of a fine buck with a game camera in Neshoba County a couple years ago. […]
Fans of crispy fried crappie will savor the last stop of our year-long tour of the best state-run fishing lakes in Mississippi, especially those who love in the southwest and central areas of the state and have a holiday taste for fish. […]
Two habitat improvement projects have recently been completed at one of Mississippi’s most-popular wildlife management areas, Copiah County WMA near Hazlehurst. […]
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