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According to deer biologist William McKinley, food plots could be critical this year.

Checking soil pH good way to spend camp workday

June 25, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

How to get the best out of spending a summer day, in Mississippi’s brutal heat, working on food plots, paths and deer stands. […]

Beulah Belle fired a wildcat .25-.348 cartridge—a necked-down .348 Winchester developed in 1936 to fit in the Model 71 Winchester Lever Action—still said to be one of the smoothest lever actions ever invented.

The building of ‘Beulah Belle’

June 25, 2013 Gordon Hutchinson

In the late ’40s and ’50s, the United States was undergoing a boom economy, recovering from restricted materiel supplies that resulted from World War II. […]

The evolution of LCD technology makes keeping screens more important than ever.

Keeping it clean

June 20, 2013 Allan Tarvid

LCD screen brightness, contrast and resolution improve with every new generation of marine electronics. Higher pixel counts, new sonar technologies, more-vibrant colors and improved visibility under adverse light conditions let us see tiny sonar and chart details that would have been invisible a decade ago without zooming to enlarge the screen picture. […]

It just didn’t seem right

June 18, 2013 Bill Garbo

A couple of years ago one frosty clear morning in early January 2011, as the whitetail rut was rapidly drawing to a close, I still had not closed the deal on a particular 6 ½-year-old buck that had been on our hit list for the better part of two seasons. […]

Gerald Moore lifts a big flathead into the boat, taking it off the hands of Mike Willoughby (left, in water) and Eddie Smith during their grabbling trip at Barnett Reservoir.

Grabbling — living on the edge (of insanity)

June 17, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

In Oklahoma, where they shoot TV shows about the sport, it is called noodling.

In Mississippi, it is called either grabbing, or, more correctly, grabbling. […]

With only a two-snapper limit, anglers want to catch the biggest fish they can during the season.

How to catch big red snapper

June 11, 2013 John E. Phillips

Red snapper season arrives this month, and with a two-fish limit, everyone wants to know how to catch the big ones. […]

On May 31, Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that the snapper season must be the same for all Gulf states.

States gaining on feds in snapper battle

June 7, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Reading between the lines of the crazy red snapper saga playing out in the Gulf of Mexico, in state and federal agency offices and, now, in court rooms, one aspect appears obvious. […]

Keeping bass healthy in a livewell is just a matter of a following a few simple steps.

Summertime bass care

June 6, 2013 Hal Schramm

It’s June and the waters where our sport fish live have warmed into the 80s. Although temperatures a little above 80 degrees approximate the preferred temperatures for bass, anglers intending to keep fish alive in livewells need to understand that these fish not only have to be given good conditions to survive confinement, but they also have to recover from the stress of capture — primarily the oxygen debt that results from playing the fish until it can be landed. […]