Bass Fishing
Bay Springs Lake receives 75,000 Florida bass
An estimated 75,000 Florida largemouth bass were dumped into Bay Springs Lake recently, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks reported. […]
Hills Region
Bass Fishing
Tombigbee’s Smithville Pool receives 40,000 bass fingerlings
Officials recently poured about 40,000 largemouth bass fingerlings into the Smithville Pool of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway to help bolster the healthy population already found there, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said today (July 6).
The 3-inch bass were provided by the Private John Allen National Fish Hatchery near Tupelo, and were surplus fish the hatchery had not planned to stock anywhere else. […]
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Arkansas angler wins Grenada Lake BFL
Arkansas’ Jeff Johnston put a limit of bass weighing 15 pounds, 5 ounces in the boat June 25 to win the Bass Fishing League stop on Grenada Lake. Mississippi’s Roger Stegall was just less than a pound back in the BFL event.
Johnston said he was fishing shallow in Turkey Creek, flipping Havoc plastics on a black-and-blue jig to catch his tournament-winning stringer and pocket the $3,842 top check. […]
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CORRECTED: BFL stopping at Grenada on June 25
The Walmart Bass Fishing League tournament stops at Grenada Lake on June 25 for the fourth of five stops in the Mississippi Division. […]
Events & Announcements
Reward offered in golden eagle shooting
A $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who shot golden eagle near Iuka that was discovered in April, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced today (June 15).
The eagle, which survived and is undergoing rehabilitation at the Jackson Zoo, was discovered in the Burnsville community near County Road 306 and Tishomingo County on April 7, and an investigation by state and federal officials has revealed the eagle was shot between March 15 and April 7. […]
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BFL tournament scheduled for Pickwick Lake
The Bass Fishing League will stop at Pickwick Lake out of Iuka on June 4 for the third of five stops in the circuit’s Mississippi Division. The lake will be flooded with as many as 400 boaters and co-anglers for the event.
“Lower Pickwick is typically all off-shore ledge fishing,” FLW pro Jonathan Newton of Alabama said. “The spawn was pretty late this year so the fish are just starting to move out, and they have been pretty slow moving to deeper water.
“There are still a few bass that will be shallow, but I would target schooling fish in about 12-14 feet of water.” […]
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Hite earns seventh Bassmaster win during Pickwick Lake Elite Series event
A seventh Bassmaster trophy brought out the emotion in South Carolina pro Davy Hite this weekend during the Elite Series stop at Pickwick Lake. […]
Deer Hunting
14-year-old ambushes 163-inch Lincoln County buck
Young Sawyer Watts had been watching a great buck on trail cameras for the past three of years, just waiting for it to really mature. And the animal almost went down last season, when one of Watts’ buddies missed the deer.
But last Tuesday (Jan. 25), the 14-year-old Watts made his shot at the 160-class deer count.
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Deer Hunting
Lowndes hunter downs two trophy 12-points from small-acreage cedar thicket
A 112-acre cedar thicket may not seem like prime woods for killing trophy bucks, but then again, it depends on where the thicket is. The cedar thicket David Coleman hunts is apparently in exactly the right spot. […]
Deer Hunting
The Wild West buck
A retired state trooper, 1988 winner of the Tunica Big Deer contest, Bobby Reed, recalls how he came to harvest his 169 7/8 buck with a primitive weapon. […]
Featured Story
Rod wrangling for crappie
It’s hard to imagine what it takes to manage an 18- to 20-foot fishing rod anchored with nearly a pound of weight and possibly 2 or 3 pounds of hefty fish dangling off the end. Combine that with a boat moving at speeds up to 2 mph, and suffice to say that power trolling isn’t for the faint of heart. […]
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Youth gamebird field day set for June 12
A free youth gamebird field day will be held at Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge’s Larry Box Education Center in Brooksville from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced. […]