August is the month when bass start schooling on Pickwick Lake on the surface and in deep water. That means you can have fun and catch a lot of fish. Although you may not catch a monster, on a good day you can bring 20 or 30 bass to the boat. […]
During July, I like to fish Bay Springs at night because the weather’s hot. Also, the bass — largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass — will feed better at night than they do in the daytime. […]
June is ledge-fishing time on Pickwick Lake. The bass will be holding on the river bars and out on the ledges of the river channel. […]
Lake Ferguson, an oxbow off the Mississippi River near Greenville, will have high water up in the willows on the north side of the lake if our area continues to have spring rains like we’ve been experiencing.
But if the Mississippi River doesn’t rise, you still can catch bass at Lake Ferguson if you’ll fish the other side of the lake and use different tactics. […]
During April, I’ll primarily be fishing the shad spawn on the rocks at Ross Barnett Reservoir, one of the hottest lakes in Mississippi during April, where you’ll catch 1½- to 6- or 7-pounders. Fishing the lily pads in the lake will be my second choice. […]
Maynor Creek Water Park, consisting of about 500 acres and located near Waynesboro, once was a very productive bass-fishing lake before going into a downturn, but it’s currently making a comeback.
Big bass are being caught again at this lake that once produced numbers of 10-pounders. The lake was drawn down several years ago to repair the dam. Because of that drawdown, the buck willows and other groves of trees flourished on what was the lake bottom. When the lake was brought back to normal pool, an abundance of cover had sprung up close to the shoreline in the shallow water. […]
This month, I’m picking Lake Ross Barnett, near Jackson. To find the bass, we’ve got to shrink the lake and concentrate on where they’re most likely to be and the lures they’re most likely to take. This month, bass have spawning on their minds, and they’re looking for warm, shallow water, and structure in the water in those two areas. […]
Bogue Homa, a fairly-shallow lake located in Jones County on Highway 84 near Laurel, has about 1,000 acres and several small creek channels running through it. During the winter months, the bass hold close to or in the creek channels. […]
I was at Pickwick Lake on the Mississippi/Alabama/Tennessee border helping with a weigh-in at a cancer benefit when one of the fishermen in that tournament called me over to his boat after the event ended. […]
This month, I’ll be catching monster spotted bass, largemouths and smallmouths. I’ll be catching all these bass in the same places, at the same time, using the same tactics and lures. […]
This month the smallmouths will start biting — particularly on topwater. I enjoy catching smallmouths at Pickwick Lake, which shares our border with Alabama and Tennessee. […]
Lake Bogue Homa, 6 miles east of Laurel on Highway 84, was restocked by the state about three years ago. This lake, with its 15-inch size limit, has a healthy population of bass. You’ll catch numbers of small fish here, but also some 3- to 5-pounders. The lake holds a lot of vegetation, including lily pads, grass and cypress trees. […]
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