The motivation behind the creation of the hybrid striped bass isn’t really documented. When fisheries biologists discovered that if they introduced hormones to induce female striped bass those bass would ovulate, it stands to reason that those biologists were curious as to whether they could duplicate their success by cross breeding two different fish. […]
Flat line trolling of artificial baits is a very effective, often overlooked method of striped bass fishing. It’s a great search tool as is trolling of all types. Locating active schools of striped bass on Barnett Reservoir is more than half the battle. […]
Andy Smith of Greene County has fished the Pascagoula for more than 30 years and has some advice for those fishing the river for the first time […]
For terminal tackle, I used my favorite redfish gear — a 7-foot medium-heavy graphite spinning rod, 10-pound braid on a spinning reel and about 2 feet of 15-pound fluorocarbon leader tied to the braid with a micro swivel. […]
Gar fishing comes with a warning: The snouts of these prehistoric-looking fish are lined — inside and on the edges — with hypodermic needle-like teeth. So care must be exercised at all times to keep space between human body parts and gar mouths.
Serious gar fishermen will find a source for the excess fish they kill during a day’s time — and not just dump them in a trash bin at the launch ramp. […]
Deer season is just around the corner and hunters are preparing for opening day by trying to figure out where they’re going to hunt. […]
“Boy it’s hot. This is hot. It never got this hot in Brooklyn. This is like Africa hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot.” Eugene Morris Jerome, the character played by Matthew Broderick in the movie Biloxi Blues […]
The Magnolia Crappie Club just completed our 2015-16 tournament season, and, brother, let me tell you, we had a BIG year. […]
Wood — once a tree, felled by man or nature, it’s now a bass fortress and a structure to be negotiated, encroached upon, invaded by those seeking a face-to-face with said fish. […]
Jack Davis cast a spinnerbait in the bend of a creek, started his retrieve and promptly hooked up with a fish.
A ferocious spotted bass almost tore the rod from his hands. Davis held on, wearing the fish down, and landed and admired it before casting out again. […]
I’ve provided information about the biology of bluegill and redear sunfish, Mississippi’s two most-popular sunfish, in the two previous columns. […]
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