2014 - Page 11 of 57 - Mississippi Sportsman

Cover: November 2014

November 1, 2014 Mississippi Sportsman

The 2014-15 hunting season got off to a good start for hunters like 12-year old Bryce Gaston. Flip to page 116 to read how he nailed this beautiful deer. […]

Coastal touchdown — Top fishing tips for speckled trout and redfish

November 1, 2014 Sam Davis

Cooler weather brings the coast’s specks and reds into Bay St. Louis, and they come in hungry and ready to bite. Here’s how to load up. […]

Jerry Pounders of Columbus is a man of God first and a catfisherman second. He loves to catch trophy-sized flathead catfish from Pickensville Lake near his home.

Pounders picks apart Pickensville — Best catfishing tactics for Tenn-Tom’s Aliceville Pool

November 1, 2014 Phillip Gentry

For Jerry Pounders of Columbus, catching catfish out of the Tenn-Tom waterway comes second nature. His first calling is in the service of the Lord as a youth pastor at Zion Assembly Church of God, but fishing isn’t far behind and he manages to find time to fish with his brother Joey. […]

Jimmy Primos harvested this trophy buck with a Mission Crossbow near Belzoni shortly before Christmas last season.

Rut warriors— Hunting tips for the rut

November 1, 2014 Michael O. Giles

Jimmy Primos patiently waited as the trophy buck strode closer through the sage. Still at a safe distance, the veteran hunter eased his Mission crossbow into position. […]

Rich Delta soil has produced a lot of trophy bucks, like this one for archery hunter Gary Blakeney.

The keys to the Delta — Mississippi Delta soil, deer genetics can produce big bucks

November 1, 2014 John J. Woods

A persistent mystique looms about giant bucks coming out of the Mississippi Delta, and the truth is that this soil-rich region is just one area of the state that produces book deer. […]

During the full moon cycle or during extremely cold weather, bucks will break their habit and can be found feeding at midday. Deer may have learned hunting pressure is lighter at midday, although no scientific evidence proves this point.

Midday rendezvous — Tips for deer hunting in the middle of the day

November 1, 2014 David Hawkins

Deer hunters, by nature, are crepuscular.

Before you go reaching for the dictionary, it means we relate to twilight. […]

Repeatedly hunting the same stands year after year can lead to deer learning hunters’ patterns.

Patterned deer hunters

November 1, 2014 John J. Woods

One of the big debates in deer hunting is if deer hunters pattern deer or do deer pattern hunters? […]

Louisiana men, company sentenced in deer case

October 31, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Three Louisiana men and a Slidell company they owned and represented were sentenced Thursday in a federal court in Gulfport on violations of the Lacey Act for illegally importing white-tailed deer into Mississippi. […]

Bass pros like Pete Ponds of Madison will have two big weekends, back-to-back, for pro tournaments on Barnett Reservoir next March.

CGM move clears way for BFL, BASS

October 30, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

A gesture of good will Thursday from a popular locally based bass tournament series has avoided a potential conflict of major fishing events on Barnett Reservoir in March 2015. […]

Tracy Laird killed this deer in 2003 and it remains the No. 1 non-typical buck by archery — No. 2 by any weapon — in the state records.

Revisiting Laird’s 11-year-old record

October 30, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

When Tracy Laird found the giant buck, his heart started racing and his knees were buckling. […]

According to creator Clyde Folse, the scent will remain on the little soft plastic strips for two or three years.

The Crappie Psychic

October 30, 2014 Don Shoopman

There were days as recently as this summer that a 51-year-old Raceland outdoorsman returned from a sac-a-lait (crappie) fishing trip and removed a secret weapon on his tube jig about a mile from the boat ramp. He did this so no one would get so much as a glimpse of the artificial add-on responsible for putting so many slabs in the ice chest. […]

Anthony Denny caught the state record bass on New Year's Eve of 1992 at Natchez State Park. Did his 18.15-pounder raise the bar too far?

Winter is lunker time

October 29, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It was a warm winter’s day, the last one of 1992 in fact, when Anthony Denny saw the telltale sign of a big bass making a feeding run on some shad in a cove on the lake at Natchez State Park. […]