Patience sometimes needed to find fishing's 'sweet spot'
Ever hear the one about a lawyer, two bankers and a building contractor who went fishing together?
Ever hear the one about a lawyer, two bankers and a building contractor who went fishing together?
Scientists who monitor Florida Bay and anglers who chase tarpon and bonefish in its maze of shallows are bracing for bigger, badder algae blooms in coming months.
The 30-day public intent period on supplemental deer feeding in Mississippi has passed.
The fishing report is really starting to sound like a broken record.
Give a man a rod and reel and teach him how to fish, and he becomes hooked.
It sounded like a great idea when Mark Woodrey brought it up. Mark is the Research Coordinator at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Noted Bay-Waveland Yacht Club sailor and skipper Harry Chapman tried for many years to get the U.S. National Women's Sailing Championship to come to Bay St. Louis.
Bay-Waveland Yacht Club will host the U.S. Men's and Women's National Sailing Championships on Sept. 22-26, 2009.

It wasn't a wire-to-wire win, but the Diligence Team won the 22nd annual Gorenflo's Cobia Tournament at the Point Cadet Marina on Sunday before a crowd of 1,400.
Saturday's edition of the Gorenflo's Cobia Tournament at the Point Cadet Marina was a total opposite of the opening day.
After more than a dozen treks through Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada, one place has always eluded me.
Boat in La. held over 909 snapper Louisiana Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents wrote over 100 fishing citations to 20 men April 28 on Bayou Fourchon, located in Lafourche Parish.
Just when fishing started to look promising in South Mississippi, the weather acts up - again.
Now that May is upon us, it's time to make a list of fishing adventures in South Mississippi.
Friday delivered much of the same sort of weather the last two months have been dishing out - a lot of breezy winds and extremely rough seas.
The rising cost of fuel has started to affect consumers where it hurts the most - in the pocketbook.
Webster's New World Dictionary describes diligence as perseverance.
My wife, Lin, and I came to live in this old Hattiesburg house we call Ronnalin almost 25 years ago this spring.
What a difference a week makes when it comes to the 22nd annual Gorenflo Cobia Tournament.
Gorenflo's Cobia Shootout came down to the final fish of the day from the 73-boat field Saturday at the Point Cadet Marina.
L ast weekend delivered two great fishing outings to the old Bellefontaine Oyster Reef located approximately a mile or more off Ocean Springs in the Mississippi Sound. On Saturday, my guests were Greg Pittman and his son Marcus, both from Atlanta.
It's hard to believe that the 2008 saltwater competitive fishing season has arrived. There's no question that I love deer and turkey hunting which gets me through the winter and spring.