Featured
Silver carp update
Asian carp have been expanding their territory throughout the Mississippi River and connected waters for several decades.
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Fishing
Bass Fishing
How to fish Bogue Homa in January
January and February can be tough months for finding and catching bass, but this is one of the best times for fishing shallow Bogue Homa Lake. […]
Featured
It’s prime wahoo time
Capt. William Wall, with Pelagic Charters, said now through about April is prime time for catching some impressive wahoo. […]
Featured
5 January fishing hot spots
Here are five hot spots Mississippi fishermen should try this month. […]
Bass Fishing
Turbidity and bass feeding
Catching bass when the water turns muddy can be challenging. Here’s how to up your odds of catching fish. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish Pickwick for rod-bending December bass
How to catch nice-sized largemouths, big smallmouths, white bass, stripers and hybrids all in the same day at Pickwick Lake in December. […]
Featured
Winter fishing hot spots
Mississippi is blessed with great fishing opportunities on every page of the calendar, and some of it is saved for the last page: December.
Fishing
Crackin’ Craw
If you want to catch bass or redfish, you better get crackin’.
Artificial lure manufacturer Zach Dubois, who specializes in soft plastics, has watched the fairly new Crackin’ Craw — a crawfish imitation — take the bass fishing world by storm. And to his pleasant surprise, it’s also become a go-to bait for redfish along the coast.
Bass Fishing
Put a skirt on – and punch that jig
Punch skirts are popular with many bass anglers because they turn normal creature baits into essentially jig presentations. Bass angler Jeff Bruhl put the technique to good use during a September bass-fishing trip to Venice, La., just before the river jumped up due to late-summer rains in the Midwest.
Field Notes
Add a topwater ‘shock absorber’
Topwater strikes make anglers’ knees go weak, but the thrill of victory can quickly turn to crushing defeat when monster bass pull off.
Field Notes
One man’s trash … is another man’s treasure when it comes to old lures
To some anglers, they’re “gut piles.” To others, they’re “dead soldiers.”
Bass Fishing
Top 3 wintertime bass baits
Bass pro Keith Combs has to put fish in the boat year-round, but he experiences what every other angler does during the summer: tough fishing, when five bites a day are what you hope for.