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Crappie Masters National Championship to be held on Tenn-Tom Waterway

The 2012 Bass Pro Shops Crappie Masters National Championship will be held Oct. 5-6 on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway near Columbus. Some 200 teams and 400 competitors will be vying for the $150,000 in cash and prizes — and the championship title.

The week of events begins with the anglers meeting and greeting the public on Oct. 2 at the Columbus Convention & Visitors Bureau office from 6:30 to 8 p.m. […]

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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. […]

Deer Hunting

Magnolia state weather and deer hunting

Wikipedia defines weather as “The state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity.”

For a lot of deer hunters in the woods from October through January, and even into February, this sounds like our weather nearly every week. […]