Fishing
Ditch bag stocking-up sources
These addresses will take you directly to the products and save a lot of searching. […]
Year: 2012
Fishing
The most important electrical impulses are between your ears
Floating around for three hours with nothing but a Coleman cooler between you and drowning is enough to make a guy and his friends renew the commonsense boating habits they’ve let slide. […]
Deer of the Year
Panola County gives up 160-inch buck
Two days after missing on a 10-point buck he had worked so hard to get, Sam Wray of Courtland found the perfect cure for buck fever blues on Wednesday (Oct. 24). […]
Bass Fishing
Frenzied bass can’t resist swimming jig
We weren’t even on Barnett Reservoir to fish Tuesday (Oct. 23), just riding around the upper river backwaters to look at the effects of recent aquatic vegetation spraying efforts. […]
Deer Hunting
Unlikely Lauderdale: How the county’s biggest buck was killed
It was Jan. 18, 2012 — the last day of Mississippi’s zone 1 rifle season. And Ricky Sullivan knew immediately when he saw the buck at 210 yards that it was Pea Vine. […]
Featured Story
Coast on fire, but still waiting on flounders to show up
Anchored adjacent to a towering bridge piling, Paul Thomas had his hands full for a few hours on Saturday (Oct. 21). There were three rod holders on the back corner of his 22-foot boat, and only Thomas and his young son Ronnie were aboard. […]
Deer Hunting
WWW: Weather, wind and where to deer hunt
It seems the whole world these days is ruled by communication via initials. Electronic forms of communication via a multitude of handheld devices has created a language predicated on a series of short buzz words or sound-bite phrases reduced further to a few letters.
These letters in triples carry the meaning of the message or an exclamatory remark, such as LOL or OMG or as my daughter sums up most responses with “whatever.” Perhaps all this started with the initiation of the World Wide Web phenomenon, or the www.coms, as we have come to know it. […]
Featured Story
Delta crappie confounding best perch jerkers
Fishing conditions could not be more ideal in the Delta. The temperatures have fallen to a more comfortable autumn range. Passing fronts are few and far between. […]
Featured
Boater rescued after vessel collides with Bay St. Louis Bridge
A 21-foot boat struck the Bay St. Louis Bridge on Friday (Oct. 19), and the sole person aboard the vessel was airlifted to a New Orleans hospital, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources reported.
The MDMR received the call about the collision at 2:08 p.m. on Friday. […]
Deer Hunting
All flashes are not equal
This past week I ran by the showroom of one of my favorite hunting-products companies that, fortunately for me, happens to be headquartered about a 20-minute drive from my home. My goal was to check out their new trail camera line in person and grab two or three of their latest “black-flash” cameras to replace some of my older antiquated “red-glow” flash (so-called “infrared”) models. […]
Fishing
Hobie’s 14-foot kayak updated for 2013; popular features remain, upgrades are added
Hobie isn’t a company that rests on it laurels. The Mirage Pro Angler 14 was introduced in 2009 and won Best of Show Honors at ICAST (International Convention of Allied Sportfishing Trades) that year. […]
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Two saltwater state fish records confirmed
Two saltwater state-record fish catches — one for conventional tackle and one for fly fishing — were certified Oct. 16 by the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources, the agency announced yesterday (Oct. 17). […]