Bass Fishing
Punching practices
Submerged vegetation is to bass as politics is to lying — you won’t find one without the other. […]
Month: June 2016
Bass Fishing
Punching skirt keeps bulk when downsizing lure profile
If Caleb Sumrall is punching particularly thick vegetation, his preferred Missile D Bomb can begin hanging up. […]
Inshore Fishing
Katrina Reef – Out of the rubble came a reef trout love
We finally had a wind-free day recently, so my wife and I decided to take a short jaunt to one of our favorite trout havens after church. […]
Featured
How to throw a cast net
It’s definitely not rocket science, but throwing a cast net is a skill that confounds lots of anglers.
For Tommy Vidrine, who specializes in catching big speckled trout and needs to have pogies in his livewell this time of year, being able to catch live bait was the motivation to master the art of consistently getting his 7-foot net to spread open into a billowy 14-foot diameter circle. […]
Catfish
June’s best bream, catfish bets
Bass and crappie might be the most-popular game fish, at least when judged by the amount of hours and money spent by fishermen who cast and jig with the fanciest of equipment, but June can be a month when two other blue-collar species take over. […]
As Big As they Grow
Mississippi is king when it comes to crappie fishing
Is the annual crappie spawn over at your favorite fishing hole? Believe it or not, as I write this month’s column the crappie were still doing their thing at Ross Barnett. […]
Featured
Red snapper season extended in federal waters
Thanks to Tropical Storm Colin — and not the hordes of snapper in the Gulf — the 2016 federal red snapper season has been extended for two days. […]
Featured
Jones misses 2017 Bassmaster Classic berth by 1 ounce0
Teb Jones missed out on his first Bassmaster Open victory and his second trip to the Bassmaster Classic by 1 ounce Saturday on the Arkansas River in Oklahoma. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The sunfish clan Part I: Bluegill
Mississippi waters provide homes to some good populations of sunfish. And there is a cadre of anglers that would rather fish for — and eat — bream than any other fish on an anglers’ most-wanted list. […]
Hunting
Wildlife XP Compact Binoculars
Steiner recently announces the expansion of their Wildlife XP line to include the 8×24, 10×26 and 10.5×28 Wildlife XP Compact binoculars. Unlike most compact binoculars, these are completely waterproof up to 2 meters, with a nitrogen-pressure-filled interior that is fogproof. […]
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Cover: June 2016
This month’s full moon signals that bream will be crowded on shallow beds, just waiting for a worm or cricket to crush. […]
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Cranking up crappie — How to catch slabs on crankbaits
You can call them crappie or the biologically incorrect white perch.
You can cross the Mississippi river into Louisiana and call them sac-a-lait. […]