Features from June 2019
Fishing frog baits can be an exciting way to target bass in Mississippi waters through the summer. Whenever bass are shallow, tie one on.
Kyle Perry says bass anglers will see similarities in the approaches to putting delectable flounder in the boat this summer.
Jourdan River is full of great bass fishing for anglers who’d enjoy a nice float trip from freshwater to brackish water and even saltwater.
During June and July, offshore ledges are the place to fish for schools of bass, and you can really mop up with crankbaits once you find them.
A lot of Mississippi anglers will be fishing from dry ground this summer. Here’s some tips for making the best of fishing from the bank.
Veteran angler Freddie McMullen has learned how to up his odds of success. Here are his tips to fill that cooler with slab-sized sunfish.
Columns - June 2019
- Grilling king mackerel filets that have been soaked in a 7 Up hot sauce marinade makes for a great fish dinner on a warm June evening.
- Big fish feeding behavior is more closely related to Solunar times, the major and minor feeding periods, rather than moon phase.
- During June, bass will be schooling, and once you find them, you may catch more than one from the same spot. Maynor Creek.
- Warmouth sunfish are one of the lesser-common panfish species. They are fun to catch and tasty table fare, but are often misidentified by anglers.
- The ability to assess the environmental history of a fish is a tool that can provide important information used to better manage fisheries.
- Tony Taylor, publisher of Louisiana Sportsman magazine, is the king, or one of many kings, of fishing with a Zoom Super Fluke.
Outdoor Updates - June 2019
- Lincoln County hunter Ricky Case harvested a sleeping gobbler on Canemount WMA. While cleaning the turkey, he discovered two shotgun pellet wounds in its breast area.
- With an increase in participation, that included more than 6,000 in the 2019 state championships, Archery in Mississippi Schools is growing in popularity.
- With CWD positives now at 19 and impacted areas on the increase, the disease is beginning to affect Mississippi’s deer-hunting regulations and limits.
- Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Miss., killed a solid white gobbler on March 17. By then, he was intimately familiar with the animal.
- Phil Bryant WMA will be broken into four units, each one offering a unique hunting experience, and hunters will be permitted to hunt through drawings.
- Revel Rawlings accomplished something incredible in a three-day period in Mississippi. He killed three gobblers on three different National Forests.
- On April 22, Hughes Skinner of Madison and Hayden Speed of Flora broke the Mississippi state record for alligator gar with an 8-foot, 223-pound entry.
- Gary Turner of Hattiesburg considers himself lucky that he is surrounded by at least a dozen public hotspots for bream to fish with his canoe.
Field Notes - June 2019
- How to get the best out of spending a summer day, in Mississippi’s brutal heat, working on food plots, paths and deer stands.
- Spawning bluegills and shellcrackers take over the shallows as summer approaches. Here’s how to catch a mess of them on fishing beds.