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Rock January bass at Ross Barnett

January 15, 2015 Paul Elias

January is a good month for fishing riprap at Ross Barnett Reservoir. Those rocks capture heat from the sun and transfer it into the water, so baitfish and bass will hold close to riprap. […]

Upping your chances for a trophy bass – Part I

January 5, 2015 Hal Schramm

Looking at catch records from individual lakes to try and identify some environmental cue that up chances of getting a big bass bite. […]

What’s with all these new bass?

December 1, 2014 Hal Schramm

One hundred years ago there were two black bass species: largemouth bass and smallmouth bass. In 1926, ichthyologists (scientists who study the classification of fishes) recognized the spotted bass as a separate species. […]

Positives of the Pickwick drawdown

November 16, 2014 Paul Elias

Pickwick Lake will be drawn down 6 feet for the dam to be repaired, making the lake level at 408 — the biggest drawdown in about 30 years. […]

Fall bass on a ‘spring’ pattern

November 7, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Softly trickling over the exposed roots of a tree, a small stream of clear spring water was spilling into the calm dark waters of Lake Chotard. […]

Choctaw bass or not?

November 6, 2014 Hal Schramm

In 2007, fishery researchers Brandon Barthel, John Knight and Mike Tringali at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute were conducting genetic analysis of black bass in Florida Panhandle rivers when they found a DNA profile from a Chipola River specimen that didn’t match any other known black bass. […]

Winter is lunker time

October 29, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It was a warm winter’s day, the last one of 1992 in fact, when Anthony Denny saw the telltale sign of a big bass making a feeding run on some shad in a cove on the lake at Natchez State Park. […]

Bass moving up, following shad

October 20, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Fishermen love hunting season, especially those who do not hunt.

“Means a lot less traffic on the water,” said Gene Turner of Jackson, who loves bass fishing on Delta oxbows and Barnett Reservoir in October and November. […]

Seeing clearly

October 1, 2014 Hal Schramm

Turbidity negatively affects fisheries. It reduces light penetration and reduces the production of algae that is the foundation of the food web. Eventually the fine silt particles that make water turbid settle out smothering organisms that live on the bottom, turning hard bottom areas into soft muck, and eventually filling in reservoirs. […]

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