Freshwater Fishing
Articles by Bobby Cleveland
Freshwater Fishing
Ultra-light fun
Many of the surface schools you find in late May or early June will be the fish stocked the previous year, and they will not have reached the legal size limit of 15 inches. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Size limits
Striped bass and hybrid striped bass are counted together, with an aggregate limit of six per fishermen allowed each day. There is a 15-inch minimum length limit on both. […]
Bass Fishing
Beat stubborn bass by following transition routes
Like any bass fisherman, B.A.S.S. Elite Series pro Pete Ponds struggles to find largemouth during the spring transition, when fish move from shallow spring spawning grounds to their deep summer haunts. […]
Featured
Transition hits full speed for bass, crappie
Remember all that talk bemoaning the late spring?
Keep that in mind while you enjoy the stifling heat and humidity that is mid June in Mississippi this year. […]
Events & Announcements
Pridgen is new state DU director
At the age of 23, Hunter Pridgen of Greenwood might seem young to be Mississippi’s regional director for Ducks Unlimited, a job he assumed on April 1. […]
Events & Announcements
Garavelli retiring after 28 years as MDWFP fisheries director
Ron Garavelli, Mississippi’s chief of fisheries since 1985, has announced his retirement effective June 30, the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks confirmed today. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
States gaining on feds in snapper battle
Reading between the lines of the crazy red snapper saga playing out in the Gulf of Mexico, in state and federal agency offices and, now, in court rooms, one aspect appears obvious. […]
Featured
Snapper season cut again, back to 28 days
When Mississippi received a six-day extension to its red snapper season on May 23, fisheries biologists at the Department of Marine Resources scoffed at the idea. […]
Events & Announcements
Veteran officer is MDMR’s interim patrol chief
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced May 31 that 23-year veteran Lt. Col. Rusty Pittman has been named interim chief of Marine Patrol, effective immediately. […]
Alligator
Alligator applicants get surprise — it’s free
When people began logging into MDWFP.com today to apply for Mississippi’s 2013 public alligator hunting season, they received a nice surprise. […]
Content
Under the Radar — How to catch Ross Barnett’s stripers and hybrid bass
From experience, we knew big schools of big striped bass were in a specific area of Barnett Reservoir. They were close — they had to be because the conditions were perfect. […]