Duck guns used to be a big deal — really. In the old days, it was not all that uncommon to run into a salty waterfowler toting a 12-pound 10-gauge double slung over one shoulder along with a huge bag of real wood decoys over the other. Back in the way back day, it was still possible to catch a goose hunter carrying an 8-gauge, but by the 1950s, those were mostly long gone with modern duck guns taking over the scene. […]
It is midnight at the marina where your boat is moored, and water is slowly rising in its bilge. The float switch turns on your automatic bilge pump, but it can’t stay ahead of the leak and the water level creeps upward. By the time you return to the slip, your boat will be hanging by its mooring lines — if you’re lucky! […]
The fall 2011 fishing season has provided some surprises and some wonderful crappie fishing for lots of us Mississippians. First of all, the weather changes have been more abrupt, with cold weather fronts coming more often and with greater intensity than recent years. […]
During December, most of us are thinking about Santa Claus, children getting out of school and upcoming bowl games. However, on Christmas Day, when the presents are all unwrapped, and the toys are put away, these memories still aren’t nearly as long-lasting as fishing trips with mom and dad. […]
If you like to catch big bass, appreciate solitude on the lake, and know how to dress for cold weather, good bass fishing awaits you in Mississippi’s waters. December signals the end of fall fishing and the start of winter fishing throughout the northern two-thirds of the Magnolia State. And there are bass to be caught. […]
I was more than a little frustrated, and embarrassed to boot.
Invited to Jeff and Karen Lewis’ Agriana Plantation in Tensas Parish, I had promised to help them sight in Karen’s new .22-250 bolt-action rifle. […]
Fishing and boating tend to slow down during the winter months, but letting your battery maintenance slow down can be expensive. […]
The firestorm over the use of digital trail cameras for deer hunting rages on. The debate among hunters is whether the information revealed by trail cameras is of any real value or is it just imagined? […]
I was at Pickwick Lake on the Mississippi/Alabama/Tennessee border helping with a weigh-in at a cancer benefit when one of the fishermen in that tournament called me over to his boat after the event ended. […]
This month, I’ll be catching monster spotted bass, largemouths and smallmouths. I’ll be catching all these bass in the same places, at the same time, using the same tactics and lures. […]
If you think about ecological services, you quickly come to the conclusion of how vital they are, not only to anglers, but to all people whether they venture onto the water or not. […]
Keeping up with developments in sonar, radar and GPS over the last few decades hasn’t been easy, and the evolution of marine electronics seems to be speeding up. […]
Copyright 1998 - 2026 Mississippi Sportsman, Inc. All rights reserved.