Heavy March rains have forced the closure of turkey season at three of Mississippi’s South Delta state Wildlife Management Areas, the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced on Tuesday. […]
A bill to raise hunting and fishing license fees for Mississippi residents continues to work through the legislative process, despite being amended every step of the way. […]
It is true that calling a crappie fisherman a perch jerker is incorrect 99.99999 percent of the time.
On Monday, March 21, Wesley Cummings of Booneville was a member of the other .00001 percent. […]
There’s nothing worse than opening up a tackle box and finding the hooks on all your hard-plastic baits rusted.
And it’s not like you can really dry off each bait before putting them into storage. So it’s just an inherent problem with which anglers have always had to deal. […]
When redear and bluegill are bedding, you can find them sharing the same areas. There’s a good chance you’ll find them after a full moon. […]
The importance of realistic, crawfish patterns is well known to Bassmaster Elite pro, and Brandon Palaniuk proved it on his way to finishing second in the 2013 Bassmaster Classic on Grand Lake in Oklahoma. […]
Brady Watts is sick, very sick.
He’s also an avid turkey hunter, extremely avid.
His timing is awful, horribly awful. […]
There seems to be no end to the number of ways smartphones and tablets can help us. Just about the time I thought I couldn’t be surprised by another smart-electronics revelation, I discovered that they can now operate a bow-mounted trolling motor. […]
The bilge of my boat has long looked like the Exxon Valdez threw up under my back deck. No matter how hard I have tried over the years, I just haven’t been able to avoid spilling at least a little bit of oil when filling the reservoir. […]
If you’re a hard-core fisherman like Grand Isle trout assassin Tommy Vidrine, you should be changing your fishing line — a lot. […]
A 36-volt trolling motor is the only way to go. They have lots of power but sip at the batteries, so you rarely have to worry about losing steam during a hard day on the water. […]
Toward the end of last month’s installment of Happy Trails I began to opine and brag a little about the evolution of deer hunting in Mississippi during my 45-year tenure as a deer hunter, and about how much positive progress has been made over the past 10 or 15 years. […]
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