Features from April 2020
- Mississippi anglers need to pay attention to a handful of numbers that are important to bass, like water temperature, air pressure and photoperiod.
- Don’t give up on toms if they give you the slip off the roost. Finding a turkey later in the day may be your best chance to punch a tag.
- Kayaks are the perfect paddlecraft for spring crappie in Mississippi because of all the places you can access that are full of fish.
- You’ve got to be able to trick a Mississippi turkey before you can tote him out of the woods. Here are a few things to consider that may help you.
- Mark Prudhomme, a 17-time national calling champion, offers some of his tips to Mississippi hunters to help them entice tough gobblers.
- According to one turkey hunting legend, scouting and listening are more important than calling when turkey season arrives.
Columns - April 2020
- Early spring is a good time to get the habitat in shape for turkeys and the approaching nesting season here in Louisiana.
- Missile Baits’ new Quiver looks amazing underwater and is an ideal bait for use with the Neko Rig and the Tokyo Rig for bass.
- Choose Pickwick Lake for April bass fishing, since you’ll catch a variety of bass there, including largemouths, smallmouths and spots.
- Wahoo are among the fastest fish in the ocean, are hard-fighting, and are also one of the tastiest. That’s why they are highly sought after by anglers.
- Benefits of supplemental feeding can be evaluated by measuring sunfish and bass growth, but many factors can affect growth.
- Wahoo aren’t just prized offshore catches, they taste extremely good. They are a cousin in the mackerel family but have lighter meat and a milder flavor.
Outdoor Updates - April 2020
- Big, prespawn speckled trout are a common target around Mississippi’s Cat Island throughout April. And the prespawn trout there in April are big.
- Mississippi will not have a mandatory deer harvest reporting system, or tagging, for the 2020-21 hunting season. House Bill 1539 failed to gain approval.
- Nowhere else can match the Magnolia State when it comes to crappie fishing. Mississippi is the king of crappie.
- Terry and Terra Stewart's crappie caught at a Magnolia Crappie Club tournament on Grenada Lake got them first place overall, big fish and set a club record.
- Mississippi’s most-popular fishing destination was dealt some good news in February, when Ross Barnett’s vegetation problems were washed away by heavy rain.
- Mississippi’s I-55 is access to the nation’s best crappie fishing. Lake Lincoln and Calling Panther Lake are rapidly earning reputations.
- Big, lonesome gobblers are ready to answer hunters’ calls as Mississippi’s turkey season reaches the halfway point. The season ends on May 1.
- Hank Cherry became the third North Carolina angler to win the Bassmaster Classic when he led from start to finish on Alabama’s Guntersville Lake the first weekend in March.
- Lake Lamar Bruce got new co-record largemouths on the afternoon of Feb. 23 caught by Scott Lewis of Tupelo and Channing Davis of Nettleton.
Field Notes - April 2020
- Get a different ‘perspective’ on what’s below the surface with LiveScope’s latest Perspective mode. It gives you a live, real-time view of the fish.
- There’s more to catching trout in the surf than showing up and walking into the water. Here are some tips from Sammy Romano, who has perfected the tactics.