Top Story - May 15, 2012

June issue a real page-turner
Read all about an exhilarating day spent grabbing catfish on Ross Barnett Reservoir. At this very moment the final touches are being put on the June issue of Mississippi Sportsman, and later this afternoon (May 15) the magazine will head to the printers. That means that, within the week, the issue will be arriving in mailboxes across the state.

Whether you plan on trolling for crappie at Enid Lake, wrestling catfish at the Rez or hauling in trout at Horn Island, let this issue be your guide.
Here's a look at what we have on tap:Off the Shelf
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May is the right time
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Hot Wire

Calling Panther and Okhissa were two lakes that left Billy Thomas and his sons with ice chests overflowing with bream. As good as it gets  - Last weekend’s “super moon” — which involved the full moon phase coinciding with its closest proximity to Earth this year — led to incredible commentary and photography that filled social networking sites. The phenomena also led to extraordinary catches of bedding beam that filled iceboxes and deep fryers across Mississippi. From private lakes and farm ponds to river oxbows and public lakes, the panfish activity peaked, just as expected.
Huner Amanda Coutch killed her first turkey, this four-bearded gobbler, on the last day of the season. Warren County hunter nabs four-bearded gobbler  - The outdoors was always where Amanda Brock Coutch would rather be. Working in the yard to deer hunting or fishing with her granddad were her favorite things to do. She deer hunted as a child with her dad and became quite accomplished at it. However, she had never turkey hunted. Until this year, when she nailed a bird with four beards.
Idaho pro Brandon Palaniuk moved into the second day of the Bassmaster Elite Series Bull Shoals tournament in the lead, with Mississippi's Cliff Pace less than 2 pounds back. Palaniuk nabs first-day lead in Elite Series stop on Bull Shoals  - Brandon Palaniuk was the last angler to launch his boat for the Bassmaster Elite Series stop on Bull Shoals Lake in Mountain Home, Ark., yesterday (April 19), and he was the last to weigh-in, but his Day 1 finish was first with a catch of 21 pounds, 9 ounces. That included the big bass of the day. But he started Day 1 with some trepidation.
A current proposal would make some calendar adjustments to Mississippi's 2012-13 deer-hunting seasons. 2012-13 hunting seasons proposed  - At first glance, the 2012-13 Mississippi deer season proposed Wednesday (April 18) by the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks looks out of whack. For starters, there are dates that don’t coincide with regular statutes, and then there’s a series of new names for the three different deer zones. Not to worry, said the assistant chief of game and deer project coordinator Chad Dacus.

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Justin Giles displays a lunker bass caught on a Scum Frog.Pete Ponds spotted a flash and swirl that sent a school of small fry skittering across the top of the water. The Bassmaster Elite Series pro instantly sailed a Scumdog Walker Frog past the small fry and started working the lure back in a walk the dog pattern. Just as it passed over the small fry, a bass crushed the lure and headed down toward deep water. Ponds dropped his rod tip, reeled in the slack and snapped the rod back, driving the Owner hooks deep into the jaws of the lunker bass and turning it toward the boat.

Ponds has been fishing B.A.S.S. tournaments since 1996, and has learned a thing or two about competing with the best bass anglers from around the country. What he learned on Ross Barnett Reservoir many years ago, however, was how to find and catch lunker bass on frogs, years before it became a well-known technique on the Bassmaster trail.

"When you’re fishing in May, the bass will be post spawn and on different patterns," Ponds said. "During early May, there will be a ‘small fry’ pattern, where bass will be guarding their fry, and that’s what we’re targeting out in the open water and flats."

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