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May 28, 2026

Hildebrandt Drum Roller

April 29, 2015 Don Shoopman

Want a unique and improved spinnerbait on your side when you go redfish fishing for pleasure or for money? […]

Panoptix’s view can be altered to show depths in colors, making it easy to determine depth of cover, contours and fish at a glance.

Almost live TV

April 23, 2015 Allan Tarvid

One of the most-difficult aspects of teaching fishermen and boaters to interpret conventional sonar screens has been getting them to understand how a screen picture is made. […]

This buck, which was wounded at the bottom of the chest a week before, bled as if it had been shot in the liver. But survived until it was killed chasing a doe.

Unravelling a blood trail

April 20, 2015 Bill Garbo

One recent cold, damp January morning, as I sat in my ground blind watching and hoping for a mature late-season buck, my cell phone in the pocket of my coat vibrated. […]

Working a Reel N’ Shad on a Pickwick pea gravel point is a great way to catch bass this month.

Load the boat with bass this month at Pickwick

April 16, 2015 Paul Elias

You can load the boat at Pickwick Lake this month with bass, if you’re not too choosy about what type of bass you want to catch — largemouths, smallmouths and spots. […]

Tip the scales in your favor for trophy trout

April 13, 2015 Sam Davis

There are some real gator speckled trout swimming along the coast. You just have to know how to target them. […]

Brad Chappell with a guest fisherman caught one fish at Lake Washington, but it turned out to be the big fish of the day.

Bad weather tournaments

April 9, 2015 Paul Johnson

The Magnolia Crappie Club’s February tournament was held at Lake Washington under horrible weather conditions. […]

Taylor Pratt of Canton strains to hold some of the bluegill that were biting on a trip with his grandfather on April 1.

Bluegill, not chinquapins, were hot

April 6, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

The moon’s reflection in the water was nearly full circle, which is why the plan was to find an active bed of redear bream, a.k.a. chinquapin or shellcracker. […]

Does bed fishing harm bass populations? The science doesn’t indicate there’s any harm.

Bass bed fishing

April 1, 2015 Hal Schramm

For some bass anglers, sight fishing for bedding bass is the ultimate rush. Other anglers consider bed fishing unsportsmanlike, with some asserting it adversely affects bass abundance.

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Turkey flock populations across the state are always in flux, but annual turkey surveys help track their activities.

Join the spring gobbler survey team

April 1, 2015 John J. Woods

Turkey hunters can play an active role in providing information that helps determine future management of the wild turkey in Mississippi. I mean, do you ever wonder where all the annual turkey hunting results information and data comes from each season?

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Tom Mann Jr. of Florida holds a 9-pound bass he caught in mid-December on a YamaFrog by Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits.

Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits’ YamaFrog

March 31, 2015 Don Shoopman

Christmas came early for one of the most-accomplished professional bass anglers in his era.

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The new Bio-Lume LED light array is a fish magnet that works after dark in either fresh or saltwater.

New high-tech night-fishing light

March 26, 2015 Allan Tarvid

Crossing a bridge over a southern reservoir on a summer night can treat you to a light show that really makes you want to wet a line. When the bite is on and the word is out, the flooded timber can be dotted with enough lights to look like a field of stars. […]

The details make all the difference

March 24, 2015 Bill Garbo

As I write this month’s “Happy Trails” column, the 2014-2015 Mississippi deer season here in Central Mississippi has just ended. […]