Louisiana angler sets Okhissa record
Before Saturday, the biggest bass Brett Beasley had ever caught was six pounds. He more than doubled that on one cast at Lake Okhissa at Homochitto National Forest near Bude. […]
Before Saturday, the biggest bass Brett Beasley had ever caught was six pounds. He more than doubled that on one cast at Lake Okhissa at Homochitto National Forest near Bude. […]
When it opened in 2007, fishermen knew that Lake Okhissa near Bude would soon begin producing huge largemouth bass as the original stocking of fish cycled through to maturity. […]
The closest town to 250-acre Turkey Fork Lake, my pick for June bassing, is Sand Hill. This lake on federal land has been rehabilitated recently, and reopened in December 2013. […]
A combination of regulations set by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District, which manages Barnett Reservoir, creates many zones on Barnett Reservoir that are closed to fishing with jugs. […]
As DMAP Cooperators will quickly learn, recording, delivering and assessing deer harvest data is crucial to program maintenance. Quality deer management cannot happen without essential data being collected and analyzed. Paramount among the deer harvest data fields is determining the ages of the deer taken on the DMAP property each season. […]
Even for the tournament types, crappie fishing doesn’t always need to be a high-strung tension fest. You’d be amazed at the therapeutic benefits of dropping the anchor and deploying a few float rigs baited with something smelly. […]
Crappie anglers have many products from which to choose. Some might be marketed more heavily to the bass world, but a shad is a shad and garlic is garlic, regardless of who’s smelling it. […]
Steve Grace of Collinsville is an accomplished local, regional and national tournament angler, who excels in fishing a variety of lakes from large reservoirs to smaller public waters, like Kemper County Lake near DeKalb. […]
The great thing about flounder fishing is that the necessities are minimal and most fishermen already have the tools necessary to get started. […]
Pitching the idea of harvesting antlerless deer is still a hard sell. In all the years of teaching hunter safety education even though as I counseled the participants that the course was not a “deer hunting” course, inevitably the discussions often turned to those subjects. […]
“One of the most frequently asked questions about joining the DMAP program is ‘what do we get out of it?” said Lann Wilf, the North Region Biologist. “It certainly is a fair question since we are asking these guys to spend an entire hunting season collecting data and sending it in for analysis.” […]
June is a great month for freshwater species, including another round of bedding bream on the full (June 14) and new moon phases (May 28, June 27). The farther north you go, the better the bedding will be, since bluegill spawn earlier in the southernmost counties. […]
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