Fishing

Freshwater Fishing

Fish Wars: Do sport fishes compete

July 27, 2011 Hal Schramm

It’s the time of the year when white bass, striped bass and hybrid striped bass group up and chase shad, often corralling them near the surface where they have nowhere to escape. “Schooling” whites, stripes and hybrids can make for some exciting fishing on late afternoons in the summer. Catching these schooling, lure-crushing fish has salvaged more than a few of my black bass outings after sweating through a long Mississippi summer day for only a couple of bites. […]

As Big As they Grow

Fishing Chotard in the summer a real treat

July 27, 2011 Paul Johnson

The Great Flood of 2011 is over — thank goodness. We won’t know the full cost to homeowners, farmers and businessmen for months to come. But we already know that the levees survived (doesn’t that make you feel relieved?), and we survived. Much post-flood restoration work to homes, hunting and fishing camps, businesses and some lakes is on-going. […]

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Tenn-Tom Crappie-way

July 27, 2011 Phillip Gentry

The Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway is a 234-mile man-made waterway that extends from the Tennessee River to the junction of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee River system near Demopolis, Ala. Popularly known as the Tenn-Tom, the waterway was completed in December 1984 after 12 years of construction at a cost of nearly $2 billion. […]

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Drought causes Deer Creek fish kill

July 20, 2011 MDWFP news release

Drought conditions has reduced the amount of water flowing through Deer Creek near Hollandale, resulting in a fish kill last week, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks said.

The kill was reported to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality on July 13, and MDWFP biologists were dispatched to investigate the following day. […]

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West Ship Island beach work scheduled

July 19, 2011 From News Reports

West Ship Island’s north beach is set to be rebuilt beginning next month to help stabilize the island and mitigate erosion, the U.S. National Park Service announced yesterday (July 18).

The work, set to begin Aug. 1 and be completed by the end of October, also will provide protection to Fort Massachusetts, the agency reported. The historic site is in danger of damage from encroaching waters. […]

Bass Fishing

Bouie River lakes perfect for punching

July 14, 2011 Michael O. Giles

“The lakes on the Bouie are the only ones that I’ve consistently caught fish off of the mats,” he said. “I’ll take a ¾- to 1½-ounce bullet sinker pegged with a bobber stopper and add a large punching hook and Paca Craw, or some other creature bait, and punch through the matted grass when the bass are holding underneath. […]

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Saltwater fishing off the charts on the Mississippi coast

July 13, 2011 Christopher L. Eger

After a one-two punch of Deep-water Horizon oil spill and the freshwater inundation of the Gulf following extreme springs flooding of the Mississippi river, the stage was set for lackluster expectations for saltwater anglers. These expectations, however, have been gratefully upset by several record catches along the state’s coast.

Starting the year off in a big way as Steve Atwood and crew hauled aboard a huge wahoo in Mississippi waters. The beast, which the charter crew estimated by measurement to range from 124 to 130 pounds, took more than 24 hours to be weighed on certified scales. […]