Mississippi Fishing News

GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI - Brandon Bolton of West Point, Mississippi, won the Walmart Bass Fishing League® Mississippi Division tournament on Lake Ferguson Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 20 pounds, 10 ounces. The victory earned Bolton $4,127 and placed him one step closer to qualifying for the Kentucky/Barkley Lakes Regional Championship in Gilbertsville, Ky., Oct. 15-17, where he could ultimately win a new Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.

GREENVILLE, Mississippi - The Mississippi Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit Lake Ferguson in Greenville, Mississippi, June 27 for the fourth of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

FORT MADISON, Iowa - It has never been more apparent that the Bassmaster Elite Series is a game of adjustments than it was Thursday at the Genuity River Rumble. Spoiled by the big-bass factories ofLake Guntersville and Kentucky Lake in the previous two tournaments, Elite anglers were hit with a dose of reality Thursday on the Mississippi River as many were forced to dig deep in their tackle boxes to grind out a limit. And many were unable to manage a limit on Day 1.

COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI - The Mississippi Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit the Columbus Pool in Columbus, Mississippi, May 16 for the third of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

LUKA, MISSISSIPPI- Joel Barber of Brandon, Mississippi, won the Walmart Bass Fishing League® Mississippi Division tournament on Pickwick Lake Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 19 pounds. The victory earned Barber $4,981 and placed him one step closer to qualifying for the Kentucky/Barkley Lakes Regional Championship in Gilbertsville, Ky., Oct. 15-17, where he could ultimately win a new Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.

LUKA, MISSISSIPPI- The Mississippi Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit Pickwick Lake in Luka, Mississippi, April 18 for the second of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

This past Saturday March 21st Crappie USA held a qualifying event at the Wind Creek State Park on Lake Martin near Alexander City, Alabama. These anglers were competing for not only cash and prizes, but a chance to advance to the prestigious Cabela's Crappie USA Classic to be held at Columbus, Mississippi in the fall of 2009.

BRANDON, Mississippi - The Mississippi Division of the $8 million Walmart Bass Fishing League® will visit the Ross Barnett Reservoir in Brandon, Miss., March 7 for the first of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

Columbus, Mississippi - Scott Dean from Terrell, Texas, held on to his lead to win the HI-SEAS sponsored 2008 Grand Slam Championship in Columbus Pool in Columbus, Mississippi. His two-day total was 27.64 pounds.

Bainbridge Island, Washington - The top names in Fly Fishing have joined forces together to put togther a world-class fly fishing outfit as a fundraiser for Trout Unlimited-Alaska to help with their efforts protecting the Bristol Bay watershed.