June 2020

Mississippi is full of public-trust lakes that offer great bass fishing to anglers. Here’s the 411 on the best of the best.

Options for hunting after dark are many for Mississippi sportsmen; including beaver, coyote, fox, nutria, skunk, and wild hogs.

Boat docks are an often-overlooked form of cover for post-spawn crappie. This technique will help you get baits where the big ones hide.

June is a prime month to catch bedding bream across Mississippi. Though pedestrian by many measures, they are the fish that brings people together.

Genetics, habitat and forage are keys to building a trophy bass fishery. Achieving high growth rates remain an ongoing fishery management challenge.

In June, Paul Elias prefers to fish the Natchez Trace side of Ross Barnett Reservoir, with its numbers of ledges and drop-offs near shallow water.

The Mister Twister Sassy Swimmer is a great jig and spinnerbait trailer, but it also works great for bass when rigged by itself.

Yellowfin tuna swim throughout all the tropical and subtropical oceans of the earth. These big, bluewater fish are fun to catch and quite tasty.

The author has added a new, improved jighead to the arsenal he takes to the water when he’s targeting trophy speckled trout.

June is always a hot month, and we’re talking fishing, not temperatures. In Mississippi, opportunities abound for many species on many types of waters.

The Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks planned to reinstate the full deer season in the South Delta and keep the four-deer limit.

Public-water alligator hunting permits are highly prized among a growing legion of Mississippi sportsmen. The process to get one for 2020 starts June 1.

Die-hard Hinds County turkey hunter Matt Courtney harvested a monster gobbler with six beards on the morning of March 29.

The MDWFP is proposing a play to require mandatory testing of hunter-harvested deer on certain days in three areas of the state.

The Mississippi Wildlife Federation intends to file a lawsuit over losing the opportunity to lease the Mississippi Trade Mart for its annual Extravaganza.

Three Mississippi hunters had great turkey hunting seasons this year. Otha Barham, Leroy Morse and Kathy Shortridge talk about their hunts.

The Chandeleur Islands are roughly a 40- to 45-mile boat ride from Venice, Hopedale Marina or Mississippi ports, and can be a dynamic fishery.