Features
Float up a duck – Limit out on ducks on a Mississippi float trip
Two things you’ll find in abundance across Mississippi this month are ducks and flowing waterways. […]
Year: 2018
Deer Hunting
Reelin’ in the rut
Linda Burdine Pollard sat in her favorite deer stand in north Choctaw County last year, searching for sign of a hot doe. What she heard and saw were something very different, but exactly what she was looking for: a red-hot buck. […]
Features
We’re in a poke — with pigs
Unless you have lived under a rock for the past decade you know feral hogs are a problem in Mississippi. They have the highest reproduction rate of any mammal that weighs 100 pounds or more, and trying to control them is like nailing Jell-O to a creosote post. […]
Deer Hunting
Second Issaquena CWD case confirmed
A suspected second case of chronic wasting disease in Issaquena County has been confirmed, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks announced this week.
Columns
Cooking with ‘Cajun spice’
Buddy Callahan looks like anything but a Cajun with his curly blond hair, fair complexion, a stocky build and a grizzled Van Dyke beard. […]
Ducks
Duck hunters hoping for another good season in the Delta
A wet start to November put a lot of rain on the Delta, providing good early habitat for ducks. Hunters just need it to keep raining and for the temperatures to start falling quickly to hasten waterfowl migration.
Deer of the Year
Son puts pop on big public land buck
Rick and Nathanael Reeves had a rare kinship with a buck that covered several years, not far from their home in Southaven in DeSoto County, a deer so impressive they called it Samson.
Deer of the Year
Father, son double in Jasper County
Billy McKee and his appropriately named son Gunner of Terry can make a claim that few other deer hunters can — they collected 262 inches of antler with two shots in five minutes. […]
Columns
Crackin’ Craw
If you want to catch bass or redfish, you better get crackin’.
Artificial lure manufacturer Zach Dubois, who specializes in soft plastics, has watched the fairly new Crackin’ Craw — a crawfish imitation — take the bass fishing world by storm. And to his pleasant surprise, it’s also become a go-to bait for redfish along the coast. […]
Columns
Gentlemen, start your engines!
It’s finally November, and we all know what that means. For fellow members of the deer-hunting community, the past nine months have been slowly and steadily building toward November. […]
Bass Fishing
Put a skirt on – and punch that jig
Punch skirts are popular with many bass anglers because they turn normal creature baits into essentially jig presentations. […]
Field Notes
Add a topwater ‘shock absorber’
Topwater strikes make anglers’ knees go weak, but the thrill of victory can quickly turn to crushing defeat when monster bass pull off. […]