Bass Fishing Archives - Mississippi Sportsman

March 7, 2021

Maynor Creek is a productive lake for bass in March because it has numbers of big bass in its shallow water. […]

Bass pro Mark Daniels set out to design a square-bill crankbait. The Bill Lewis MDJ Series SB-57 is the result. […]

A swim jig is the perfect lure for bass when it seems like nothing else is working, and it doesn’t take a pro to tie one on and catch fish. […]

Duckett Fishing has added a handful of “Pro Driven” baits to the line this year, and the Triple Threat spinnerbait is one of them. […]

Stan Wheeler was fishing with his buddy Larry Phebus in a lake near West Point when he caught a 12.6-pound lunker bass on Nov. 17. […]

When cold fronts hit at Bogue Homa in February, the female bass will pull out of the lily pad stems and move out to the thick cover. […]

In his 1881 Book of the Black Bass, Henshall described the black bass as “Inch for inch and pound for pound the gamest fish that swims.” […]

When the water’s up in river-fed lakes and Mississippi bass are stirring at the approach of the spawn, give oxbow lakes a chance. […]

Catching bass seems like a battle between the knowledge and skills of the anglers and the too-often unpredictable behavior of the bass. […]

One of the soft-plastic lures that launched Cajun Lures six years ago has a new look. Bayou Bug 2.0 has arrived, and it is catching bass. […]

January’s not a month where you’ll catch numbers of bass at Ross Barnett, but you should catch some fairly large, prespawn bass. […]

Striped bass are targeted by thousands and thousands of anglers. They are not in the same family as largemouth or smallmouth bass. […]