Crappie/Bream
Fish Sensory Systems: Part 3
This final segment explores fishes’ ability to detect sound and water movement. These senses may have much more to do with feeding than formerly known or even thought. […]
Columns
Columns
Keys to bow stand selection
Archery season is fast approaching and hopefully, most bowhunters have their archery equipment set up and dialed in. But what about the tree stands they will hunt from? […]
Fishing
Zombie RIP Stik
The RIP in Egret Baits’ new Zombie RIP Stik doesn’t stand for “rest in peace,” although it could.
Fishing
Mounting transducers with a need for speed
You open the throttle, plane the boat, tickle the trim until you can’t go any faster, and then your sonar loses the bottom. Chances are, the problem lies with your transducer installation.
Deer Hunting
Supplemental feeding in better focus
In last month’s installment we discussed minerals and supplemental feeding of deer in Mississippi. This is still a controversial subject depending on who you talk to. Proponents call it supplemental feeding, opponents call it deer baiting. It has been two years now since the MDWFP loosened the regulations regarding: Rule 2.4 — Supplemental Feeding of Wild Animals Outside of Wildlife Enclosures. Let’s drill down on this subject a little deeper and see what is legal and what is not, and how to properly use supplemental feeding to best affect. […]
Bass Fishing
Great August fishing awaits you at Ross Barnett
Because bass don’t have sunscreen, sunglasses or air conditioning, in August, they’re looking for shade and cool water. Ross Barnett Reservoir has numerous lily pads, providing shade and cooler water where the baitfish also can feed on the algae on the lily pads’ bottoms, and big, thick clumps of grass. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Fish Sensory Systems – Part 2
Much remains to be learned about exploiting the sense of smell to attract fish or make them bite. Which odors attract, which repel? […]
Columns
Be ready for field repairs
You can do several things to prepare for most bow issues you will encounter in the field, possibly saving your hunt in the process. […]
Bass Fishing
The Stanley Standup Football Jig
Lonnie Stanley does more than talk a good bass fishing game; he makes solid baits, too.
The East Texas native who lives in Huntington, Texas, home of Stanley Jigs, has been making artificial lures for more than 30 years that are good enough for the pros to catch bass on, which “makes it a lot easier for the regular guy to catch fish,” Stanley told bassfishingarchives.com in 2015. […]
Fishing
The big screen advantage
“Multifunction display” grows in meaning with each new generation of marine electronics. Sonar functions now include traditional down-looking 2-D scanning with and without CHIRP, high-definition side and down scanning, live forward scanning, 360-degree circular scanning and a choice of frequencies to optimize each type for either maximum detail or greatest scanning depth/distance. […]
Deer Hunting
Helping your deer herd
I sit down to write this installment of Happy Trails after spending yesterday morning in the deer woods of southwest Mississippi, attending to tasks associated with supplemental feeder sites and salt/mineral stations. It was hot and humid and horse flies the size of nickels were buzzing around our heads, but other than that it was a fun and interesting time. […]
Bass Fishing
July bass at Bogue Homa
I choose the lakes I pick each month, since I know where the bass have to be, and what baits they’ve historically taken. That’s why for July I’m selecting Bogue Homa.