Fishing Mississippi

Book excerpt: Mississippi is a paradise for fishing the year round. This guidebook will pilot you to the perfect fishing hole and detail the knots, baits, lures, and techniques required to land a prize catch. Anglers who have focused on one single species or those who are new to the pleasures of fishing may be surprised by the variety Mississippi has to offer. More than twenty native fishes fall into the thriving sport-fish category. Among the many discussed here are bluegill, redear sunfish, longear sunfish, green sunfish, warmouth, crappie, small-mouth bass, spotted bass, largemouth bass, striped bass, white bass, hybrid bass, sauger, walleye, blue catfish, channel catfish, and flatheads. A handy source highlighting the thrills of angling in the Magnolia State, this informative book offers tips on when, where, and how to fish Mississippi's many reservoirs, rivers, ponds, and streams. Book jacket.