Columns Archives - Page 69 of 130 - Mississippi Sportsman

May 28, 2026

The new Arashi Wake Crank provides an alluring wobble right at the surface of the water, driving bass into biting.

Arashi Wake Crank a bass magnet

November 30, 2014 Don Shoopman

An Idaho outdoorsman had plenty of time to talk about some keys to his success this year as an Elite Series angler as part of a four-year career that has earned him $517,632. […]

When coated lightly with Jezebel Sauce and grilled over a hot fire, venison steaks take on a nice char while still producing the medium rare results sought with backstrap. The steaks can then be served with more sauce.

Jezebel Sauce perfect for venison

November 29, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

There are several tricks to serving venison to people who say they don’t like the taste, and getting them to savor it enough to demand more. […]

Next time you’re at the target range, try out some of the relatively new exploding targets. They add a great boom to your practice.

Making things go boom

November 27, 2014 Gordon Hutchinson

In all its infinite wisdom, the U.S. Army determined after basic training at Ft. Polk, La., that I needed to be bussed to Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. — a multi-use base about 50 miles from St. Louis — where I would receive advanced individual training (AIT) in my Army skill. […]

Charging your trolling motor batteries as you run can extend your fishing time and the lives of your batteries.

Battery charging on the run

November 23, 2014 Allan Tarvid

From the Complaints You Will Never Hear department: “I fished in the wind all day and still have too darned much power left in my trolling motor batteries!” […]

Tracking the rut phases

November 20, 2014 Bill Garbo

As this month’s title implies, we’re going to spend a few minutes tracking and dissecting the progression and timing of the rut so we can anticipate where to place our trail cameras and stands for best affect this season. […]

With so few stories of big bucks from the archery season, Bobby Cleveland thinks football is to blame. Kiel Higginbotham (left) and Brandon Dewease were hunting on a Thursday and not a Saturday when they took this buck.

Fewer big bucks — blame football

November 19, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

After an obviously tough archery season, Mississippi biologists and hunters — not to mention the outdoor magazines and writers that love to share good deer stories — are wondering why there’s been a shortage of big buck reports. […]

A walking bait will be one of the primary baits at Pickwick during November.

Positives of the Pickwick drawdown

November 16, 2014 Paul Elias

Pickwick Lake will be drawn down 6 feet for the dam to be repaired, making the lake level at 408 — the biggest drawdown in about 30 years. […]

Joey Davis sealed the deal on these two beauties with a green hornet Matrix Shad fishing a shallow sandbar adjacent to a deep bend in a bayou.

Two surefire tactics for specks

November 13, 2014 Sam Davis

Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it.

There’s no way I would’ve believed a speckled trout could be caught in another boat’s prop wash until I saw it with my own two eyes. […]

The author loads his Abu Garcia Silver Max reels with a system of presets so when he breaks off he is still in the game with a quick tie-on of another crankbait.

A lesson on loading line

November 9, 2014 Paul Johnson

Hot dog! It’s late October and the crappie are absolutely burning it up, friend.

Now is the time to load up on some of the year’s biggest, most-aggressive white perch. I’m not kidding, friend. November is one of the top two or three months of the entire year to catch quantity and quality crappie. […]

Seeing deer is always a good thing, but great days in a stand don't always involve the wildlife outside its walls.

Best day in deer stand? No doubt about it

November 8, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It was our last day in a deer stand together one hunting season.

My wife Pam had the left side of the shooting house, and I had the right. We sat on the bench with our backs together, giving us the 360-degree view of the huge field. […]

You have to count lateral line scales to tell this Choctaw bass from a spotted bass.

Choctaw bass or not?

November 6, 2014 Hal Schramm

In 2007, fishery researchers Brandon Barthel, John Knight and Mike Tringali at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute were conducting genetic analysis of black bass in Florida Panhandle rivers when they found a DNA profile from a Chipola River specimen that didn’t match any other known black bass. […]

Repeatedly hunting the same stands year after year can lead to deer learning hunters’ patterns.

Patterned deer hunters

November 1, 2014 John J. Woods

One of the big debates in deer hunting is if deer hunters pattern deer or do deer pattern hunters? […]