Hunting
Prostaff Riflescopes
Nikon’s line of ProStaff riflescopes provide hunters the power and versatility they need for any hunt. […]
Year: 2011
Hunting
MossBack Game Calls
When you’re on the hunt, you want to leave nothing to chance. You demand the best from yourself and your gear, including your game calls. […]
Hunting
Stealth Night Hawk
As a hunter, you know that a key element to success in the woods is stealth or the ability to master your prey’s sense of sight, sound and smell. This especially holds true when hunting deer and turkey that rely on their keen senses to survive. This season, they won’t hear you coming thanks to the new STEALTH 4×4 Night Hawk Electric Vehicle. […]
Hunting
The H&R Handi-Rifle; It’s a deer stomper
I was fighting the morning commute when my cell phone rang. I knew it had to be Carlos. It was deer season — and he calls me at the same time almost every morning to talk about deer, guns and hunting. […]
Featured
Turkey hatch below average this year, MDWFP says
Hunters could find fewer turkeys next season if the annual brood survey is correct, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said today (Aug. 31). […]
Fishing
Protect your electronics investment
There is a list of risks I won’t take with my electronics, and it starts with leaving them installed while trailering to and from the launching ramp. I started removing my fishfinders back in the days when a paper chart recorder weighed about 8 pounds and a friend at a repair center warned me that neither the units nor their mounting systems were designed to take the kind of shock loads they can get while trailering down a pot-holed highway. […]
Offshore Fishing
Fishing, football go together like popcorn, movies
One of the most-difficult problems for fishermen in the fall is choosing between staying home and watching one of their favorite football teams or going fishing. However, Capt. Jay Trochesset has solved this problem for anglers fishing with him on the Silver Dollar III, based at Point Cadet Marina in Biloxi. […]
Bass Fishing
Fry and fingerlings: Can size improve stocking success?
Ask a bass angler after a subpar fishing trip what they think management needs to do to improve the fishing, and the answer almost always will be “stock fish.” […]
As Big As they Grow
Hotter than Hades: High temps affecting anglers, equipment
Has it been hot or what this summer? Record heat and “real-feel” temps have gone as high as I can remember, and, although my memory is not what it used to be, I’m old enough to remember lots of really hot summers and hot days on the lake. […]
Bass Fishing
Pickwick’s offshore ranges abound with bass
It may feel like the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack, but ledge fishing is one of the most productive tactics for summer bass on Pickwick Lake. […]
Bass Fishing
Bass fishing good, getting better on Columbus Lake
Jeff Collum worked a shallow bank picking apart the isolated cover like a skilled surgeon. Without hesitation he flipped, pitched and worked every piece of cover on and off the bank. Suddenly a bass struck his jig. Collum reared back and slammed the hook into the old sow’s jaw.
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Thermoclines drive late-summer crappie action
Staring directly into the sun on the last day of August is enough to drive you insane. However, flip the calendar, and you begin to notice some tiny cracks in the heat wave that beams down on the water beginning the first day of September. Though it may seem far away, the approach of fall is imminent. […]