Virtually all of the waterfowl hunting done in Tallahatchie County with Catfish Flautt is over small water-holding areas and assorted water resources duck hunters have always referred to as potholes. These “open waters” are not lake size by any means; potholes can be everything from a small depression in a field of corn or soybeans to a low-lying area along a creek, bayou or slough. […]
The question always comes as to why Tallahatchie County is poised to be such a great place for waterfowl hunting. If you could just do a flyover of this county during the duck season, the answer would quickly become obvious. […]
Providing a list of the 12 hottest crappie locations in the state sounds easy in theory, but becomes difficult in practice. It’s not because they’re hard to find, but just the opposite: The Magnolia state is chock full of great crappie fishing waters. […]
Bogue Homa, a fairly-shallow lake located in Jones County on Highway 84 near Laurel, has about 1,000 acres and several small creek channels running through it. During the winter months, the bass hold close to or in the creek channels. […]
Joe Poole had been cooling his heels in his truck for much of the day last Jan. 13, watching a huge bean field that was literally full of deer. It was four days after a major snowfall, and the cold weather had deer up and moving. […]
Many long-distance shooters spend thousands of dollars getting a rifle custom made, but Joe Poole decided on a stock Remington Sendero SF II. […]
Joe Poole is nothing if not consistent. While shooters will tell you glass is much more important than the rifle on which it sits, Poole has found it unnecessary to spend big money on a scope. […]
It takes more than proper equipment to make deer die at extreme ranges, so time on the range is a critical part of the equation. […]
Making long shots absolutely requires a rock-solid shooting platform.
“No person is going to free-hand one and hit one, that’s for sure,” Joe Poole said. “I’ve never shot a deer free-hand past 250 yards and hit it, and that was when I was young.” […]
OK, so you’ve got the right rifle, scope and bullet. You’ve added a good, solid rest. Now you’re looking at a deer through the scope at 500 yards, and the crosshairs won’t sit still. […]
In search of vegetative foliage, five bucks — a mature 8-pointer, a 3½-year-old, two spunky spikes and a curious button buck — go single file along the forest edge, ascending a bluff. Occasionally the group stops to forage; yet one of the spikes and the button buck, by instinct, prefer to assertively test their status with bouts of mock sparring. […]
January 2012 […]
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