For 25 years, it has been a spring ritual for one of my favorite fishing partners, Li’l Joe, and me. Sure, we may get together a few times earlier in the year and try to catch a hybrid or two, or maybe a bass and a crappie. […]
March is the prime month for catching big bass in Mississippi. Bass at Calling Panther Lake, near Crystal Springs, will be in prespawn, spawn and postspawn conditions. This relatively young lake has some trophy size, double-digit bass.
Mississippi gets a bad rap in the media. We’re last in the country in supposedly important things and first in supposedly bad things.
At posting time for this month’s Mississippi Sportsman, it will be the “official” kickoff of the 2015 fishing season. That is, we finally got through winter, and spring, with all its outdoor opportunities, is upon us. Dust off that jig pole, find the sunscreen and get out on your favorite crappie fishing hole. […]
Interest in catfishing — particularly trophy catfish — appears to be growing. […]
Turkey tactics, strategies and methods of hunting have come and gone over the years. One can still hear heated debates around the campfire during deer season about how to best hunt a wild turkey gobbler. Some say to use this call or that, hunt morning roosted birds or afternoon lovesick toms, use decoys, and so forth. […]
The WX TIDE is equipped with Wiley X’s patented removable and breathable Facial Cavity™ seal which blocks out wind and light for enhanced polarization. […]
Every now and then, as I poke along through life, I’m hit with small blasts of clarity. Usually, it isn’t over anything new, just a clarification of a fuzzy thought that’s been lurking in the back of my mind. […]
Many readers of Happy Trails no doubt also read my additional article last month in the January issue titled Hinds County Hunter Bags Monster Buck. Well, there is a little more to that story than what you read on those pages. […]
Bogue Homa near Laurel is a very good lake for finding and catching bass in February.
The bass there become aggressive because they often spawn at the end of February, so they’re gearing up for the rigors of that time of year. […]
Speckled trout in February can be harder to find than a civil servant the day after the Super Bowl […]
I want to talk about kids this month. Specifically, I want to talk about some amazing kids who have put down cell phones and the iPads/iPods and picked up fishing poles. […]
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