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.