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SPOT's Connect model enables your smartphone to operate all SPOT features.

What is your life worth?

January 27, 2011 Allan Tarvid

A few issues back, we looked at emergency locator beacons that use the international search and rescue satellite system, and I mentioned that there is another choice, the SPOT satellite GPS messenger. While the EPIRBs and PLBs we looked at before communicate with U.S. and European emergency satellites, SPOT units use the commercial satellite network that supports satellite telephone and Internet communication. And while EPIRBs and PLBs are last-resort devices to be used only in life-threatening emergencies, SPOT can send less-intense transmissions and handle other tasks as well. […]

Rabbit hunting is all about camaraderie and watching well-trained dogs do their thing.

It’s time to run rabbits

January 27, 2011 John J. Woods

By every small-game hunter’s time clock, it is the rabbit-running time of year. Rabbit hunters know the woods and fields have settled down since the end of deer season. The only orange vests being worn now by most hunters across the state are out rabbit hunting. […]

During February, the speckled trout will be scattered, and you'll catch them mixed in with the redfish and black drum.

Fish weather breaks in February

January 27, 2011 John E. Phillips

Capt. Matthew Tusa with Shore Thing Charters in Bay St. Louis says sheepshead will be your best bet in February, but fishing for redfish, black drum and flounder can heat up, if the weather warms up. […]

Bang the bass at Ross Barnett

January 26, 2011 Paul Elias

Ross Barnett is my bass-fishing pick for February, and we’ll fish this lake with baits we can bang against rocks, lily-pad stems and vegetation. […]

Hog tries to steal blogger’s deer

January 14, 2011 Dan McKinzey

The following video is of me taking a doe with my bow in Southwest Mississippi. Everything was going great until I found the deer.
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Johnny Smith of McCall Creek loves to catch “hubcaps” on Chotard in the winter.

It’s time for winter’s hubcaps

December 28, 2010 Paul Johnson

Winter is here, and, from where I sit, cold-weather crappie fishing keeps growing in popularity. There are ever-growing numbers of serious, hardcore crappie anglers who know that winter in the Deep South, especially here in Mississippi, can produce the largest lunkers of the year. […]

The top unit in Humminbird's new Down Imaging line is the 788ci HD DI Combo with built in GPS and both Down Imaging and traditional down-looking sonar.

New electronics arrive in time for New Year

December 28, 2010 Allan Tarvid

About the time my report on Lowrance’s new down-scan imaging (DSI) units reached these pages, Humminbird announced a new series of down-scanning units with both its Down Imaging and traditional sonar technology built in. […]

Although there are some speckled trout in many areas, the white trout will be more dependable this month.

Begin the year in salt water

December 28, 2010 John E. Phillips

Lenny Maiolatesi, captain of the Fighting Chicken, expects outstanding fishing in January. […]

Arms Trade Treaty facts are still alarming

December 27, 2010 Gordon Hutchinson

After my September column on the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty, two readers took me to task for an alarmist statement they said caused the entire column to be suspect. […]

Many hunters shoot hogs incidentally while targeting deer, but they’re actually a blast to hunt.

Wild hogs — our other big game

December 27, 2010 John J. Woods

What was supposed to be a non-typical deer hunt quickly turned into something completely different. Non-typical because we were hunting with handguns in the pursuit of a bit more challenge than the usual shoulder-mounted deer rifle and big-end scope. Turns out for a few minutes another quarry in the woods may have been stalking us. […]

Marsh bass are tenacious fighters, but they just don’t get very big. New research gives clues as to why.

Slow growth, small size of marsh bass investigated

December 27, 2010 Hal Schramm

Largemouth bass abound in Mississippi’s coastal rivers and marshes. Unfortunately, growth is slow, and fish over 3 pounds are rare. Why, in these food-rich systems where redfish grow to several pounds in their fist year of life, is slow growth of marsh largemouth a reality and large bass a rarity? […]

Fish for smallmouth this month at Pickwick, and you’re sure to pick up a few nice largemouth.

It’s a smallmouth picnic at Pickwick

December 27, 2010 Paul Elias

This month, the big smallmouth start suspending off bluff banks and holding off bluff points at Pickwick Lake in northeast Mississippi. From the middle to the end of January is the best time to catch a trophy smallmouth at Pickwick. We catch these suspending fish on Smithwick Suspending Rogues and Mann’s Stone Jigs. Using those two lures, you should be able to catch smallmouth that weigh from 2 to 6 pounds each with some largemouths and spotted bass mixed in. […]