A Rankin County man swimming in the Ross Barnett Reservoir at Lakeshore Park survived a brush with an alligator on Friday. According to Ricky Flynt, Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries ...

Jim's fishing partner was in a backwater lake that is upriver at Ross Barnett Reservoir. It's an area typically unaccessible to anglers, but the Pearl River flood provided access by flushing out ...

Mississippi's alligator season started Aug. 28, and it did not take long for one group of hunters to reel in a massive gator by the Ross Barnett Reservoir.A 13 foot, 9 inch long gator was caught ...

A man was injured during an encounter with an alligator at the reservoir near an area where several other alligators have been removed this month, according to wildlife officials.The man was swimming ...

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has proposed an alligator hunting season in Pelahatchie Bay on the Ross Barnett Reservoir to reduce the population through recreational ...

A pair of hunters killed the gator Sunday on the Pearl River near the Ross Barnett Reservoir northeast of Jackson, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said in a news release.

It was supposed to be a night of catching and releasing alligators, but a Mississippi hunter put a tag on a 12-foot giant at Barnett Reservoir.

The application period will be March 3-14, 2025. MDWFP will offer 24 alligator hunting permits for the Pelahatchie Bay area ...

A Mississippi man suffered minor injuries after making “incidental contact” with an alligator while swimming in the Ross Barnett Reservoir, local wildlife officials said. The animal was later ...

The hunt would be focused on the Ross Barnett Reservoir, where local officials say there is a high number of reports of nuisance alligators. State officials in Mississippi proposed an alligator ...

The MDWFP has proposed an alligator hunting season in Pelahatchie Bay on the Ross Barnett Reservoir to reduce the population through recreational hunters.