Field Notes
Simple hack for cutting braided fishing line
The unique qualities of braided line make it a great “tool in the toolbox” for catching speckled trout and redfish. […]
Statewide MS
Columns
Prepare yourself and be cautious
We find ourselves in the “in-between season.” Here in the Deep South, it is not only the season of insects, heat and humidity, snakes and poison ivy, but it is also the season of summer food plots, bush-hogging of fields and roads and weed spraying. […]
Catfish
Youth sets hardhead record
Every saltwater angler who has logged hours in the shallow of the Gulf of Mexico has caught a hardhead catfish, a bait-stealing scourge with sharp fins that can inflict infectious wounds. […]
Bass Fishing
Top 3 tips for windy bass fishing
The old wind machine has been cranked up and blowing for what seems like almost all spring, and hopefully now a more typical summertime pattern will take over. […]
Featured
Sportsman’s website to be down for scheduled server maintenance
Mississippi Sportsman’s website will be down Sunday night, June 17, for scheduled server maintenance. […]
Bass Fishing
Counting down to suspended bass
Without question, the toughest bass to catch are the ones suspending over deep water. Without definitive cover to target, anglers find it difficult to reach and entice fish that are typically in a negative mood. […]
Bass Fishing
Enhance habitat, fish will respond
Table Rock Lake is a 43,100-acre impoundment on the White River in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas and Missouri that was built in 1958. […]
Featured
Record-breaking heat – and summer just started
Three things you should know when fishing in the heat. […]
Featured
State’s 2nd commercial speck season did not open June 1
After learning the speckled trout quota for the entire year had been met, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced last week that the second phase of the commercial speck season would not open Friday (June 1) as scheduled. […]
Ducks
Alpz Doggie Duck Blind
You’re pretty good at hiding yourself beside your favorite duck hole — camouflage clothing, some brush and maybe a little camouflage cloth — but that big, black, yellow or brown dog next to you, that’s another story. He wants to see those mallards come into the decoys as much as you do, and he needs to see them splash down when you make a good shot. […]
Fishing
Shimano Exage baitcasting rods
Fishermen ready to get a jump on bass this summer have a line of Shimano baitcasting rods to choose from that carry the usual Shimano quailty with a reasonable price tag. […]
Bass Fishing
Kahara Diving Frog
The Kahara Diving Frog is a great summertime bass lure, especially on waters that get choked with surface weeds this time of year. Unlike traditional hollow-body frog lures which stay on the surface full time, this one dives underwater, and even under lily pads every time the angler moves the lure. It then floats back to the surface when anglers pause their retrieve. […]