2019 - Page 19 of 29 - Mississippi Sportsman

This photo shows 10 trail cameras — nine the author painted himself and one unpainted.

Use paint brushes to stealth up trail cameras

May 9, 2019 Joshua Chauvin

Unfortunately, many cameras on sale are often non-camouflaged. Well no need to spend more money. The cameras can be self-painted for only pennies in cost. […]

Revel Rawlings with his gobbler from Homochitto National Forest on April 23. It had a 1.12-inch spurs, a 10.5-inch beard and weighed 19 pounds.

Rawlings legendary Mississippi turkey triple

May 7, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Revel Rawlings accomplished something incredible in a three-day period in Mississippi. He killed three gobblers on three different National Forests. […]

Spring squirrel season will open on May 15

May 6, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi hunters will again have a chance to take squirrels this month when the statewide spring season opens May 15. It ends on June 1. […]

Species spotlight: Swordfish

May 3, 2019 Brian Cope

Swordfish (Xiphias gladius), often referred to as broadbills or broadbill swordfish, are highly sought-after by offshore anglers around the world. […]

Grabbing for big flathead and blue catfish begins May 1 in Mississippi.

Catfish, by hand, cranks up in May

May 2, 2019 Mississippi Sportsman

Mississippi’s hand-grabbing season opens May 1 and runs through July 15, which is timed to match the spawning season of flathead and blue catfish. […]

Hunter Waltman of Kiln killed this solid white gobbler on March 17, 2019.

Hunter kills solid white turkey

May 2, 2019 Brian Cope

Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Miss., killed a solid white gobbler on March 17. By then, he was intimately familiar with the animal. […]

Catching bedding bream is as easy as swinging a cricket or worm into a pond.

Worms vs. crickets — or go for a fly

May 1, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

The cricket vs. worm argument is an old one. Live bait is a necessary evil of bream fishing, especially in the spring when bluegill are on their beds. […]

Working this KVD jig along a grass line resulted in a nice Tenn-Tom bass coming to the boat.

Bassin’ the Tenn-Tom

May 1, 2019 David Hawkins

These four lakes on the famed Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway are worth the attention of any Mississippi bass fisherman. Try one out soon. […]

Paddle up a Mississippi lunker bass

May 1, 2019 Michael O. Giles

Fishing from a kayak gives anglers access to all kinds of great Mississippi bass waters, some that bass boats can’t access. Learn the basics here. […]

Crappie pro Ronnie Capps said to look for water that’s just a little deeper than what anglers have been wading through the spawn.

Try these tricks for Mississippi’s postspawn crappie

May 1, 2019 Phillip Gentry

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that crappie fishing is over, just because the spawn is past. Keep catching slabs using these tactics. […]

Speck-tacular May fishing

May 1, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Relatively small factors can make a huge difference in targeting speckled trout that begin spawning in Gulf waters in May. […]

Oh boy: Bream! Return to your fishing roots

April 30, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

May begins serious fishing for bluegill and other sunfish around Mississippi. […]