2014 - Page 46 of 57 - Mississippi Sportsman

There's more to turkey hunting than the harvest of a gobbler. Being able to enjoy the outdoors with family and friends is what makes spring turkey season so great.

A simple gobble makes day worthwhile

March 7, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It’s March now, and spring is on the way. We can soon look forward to blooming dogwoods, spawning crappie and to the thunderous gobbles of turkeys, resounding through the woods. […]

Whether it's a redear or a bluegill, the tough and tasty fish are fun to catch and eat.

Days with bream are the best

March 7, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

My alma mater’s football program has had this motto for years: “Anyone, anytime, anywhere.” The obvious meaning is that they’re willing to play any team at any time on any field the other chooses. […]

Fishing rods

March 6, 2014 David A. Brown

Made to endure the intense demands of tournament action, All Star built this lineup of technique-specific rods with Nano Resin technology, which offers two distinct design options: lessening material for a lighter rod while maintaining break strength or keeping the same amount of material and significantly increasing break strength. […]

Mother Nature is pointing male crappie toward the shallows right now, and the big females are right behind them.

Crappie head to spawning grounds

March 6, 2014 Paul Johnson

Finally, we’re breaking out of a record cold and miserable Mississippi winter, and we’re looking at spring right around the corner. Snow and frozen interstates in South Mississippi? Frozen pipes and a few frozen lakes and ponds? Sixteen days in a row — a Mississippi record — where temps didn’t get above freezing in Central Mississippi? […]

When Swayze Rawlings was 9, he killed his first gobbler with help from his dad Revel Rawlings of Ridgeland and his dad's wise selection of accessories.

Accessories increase youth’s turkey odds

March 5, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

When it comes to killing turkeys, Revel Rawlings of Ridgeland is one of the best.

Even then, the former president of the Mississippi Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation knows he needed all the help he could get when his two sons started chasing gobblers with him. […]

Bass pro Pete Ponds knows the swimming lizard is deadly on pre-spawn buck bass when they move extremely shallow on vegetation.

Pre-spawn debate: Swimming jig vs. swimming lizard

March 5, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Let’s get ready to caaaaassssssttttttttt!

In this corner, weighing in at roughly 3/16s of an ounce and wearing mostly natural colors, the long-time champion of pre-spawn bass baits, the soft-plastic swimming lizard. […]

Readying for a successful spawn

March 3, 2014 Hal Schramm

Have you heard the term “energy crises?” We are reminded of limits to energy when gas prices jump a quarter per gallon (energy for our vehicles) or grocery prices soar a couple hundred dollars a year above what we spent last year (energy for our bodies). […]