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Spillway Spectacular
“The colder the weather, the better the fishing gets” is the way professional angler Kent Driscoll describes the crappie fishing behind the dam at Ross Barnett Reservoir. […]
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Bass Fishing
Ross on Ross
While that’s a nice bass anywhere in the state, it’s especially good for bitter January temperatures. […]
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Better Late Than Never
January duck hunting in the Magnolia State is quite a bit different than hunting early-season birds in December. Birds that have been pounded from Canada to the Gulf are quite wary, and hunting them at the tail-end of our duck season can be frustrating to say the least. […]
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Getting Grounded
Quite often tactics used for deer hunting come around full circle over time. Just a mere 30 years ago, virtually no deer hunter had ever heard of a factory-manufactured lock-on tree stand, ladder stand or climber, much less seen or used one. A few hunters built elevated tree houses to hunt out of, some fabricated pallet platforms up in a tree, or others more likely just wedged a 2×6 board into the Y-juncture of two tree-trunk limbs. […]
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Cover: December 2008
Casey Edwards overcame some tough odds to arrow this monster buck in Lincoln County. […]
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Tree Rat Resurgnece
“This is as good as it gets,” Neal Brown said as he stoked a Tennessee-style flintlock in .32 caliber. “I’ve done a lot of hunting, but squirrel hunting with a dog and the flintlock is my favorite. Let’s see what Barlow puts up down here in the swamp.” […]
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Mississippi Two-Step
“You can tell it’s starting to turn winter around here,” laughs Tim Carpenter, owner of Eagle Lake Lodge and Outfitters near Vicksburg. “That’s when all the crappie fishermen show up.” […]
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Dove Delay
Not many of us think of hunting small game, especially doves, during the dead of winter. It is true that while dove hunters come out en masse on Labor Day and a few weekends afterwards in September, only a few “professional” dove hunters take to the fields during the second and third seasons in the Magnolia State. […]
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CSI:Mississippi
Your heart is still pounding uncontrollably as the overdose of adrenaline rushes through your veins. Only seconds have passed since you squeezed the trigger on the biggest buck you’ve ever seen. Everything happened so fast that it almost seemed like a dream. […]
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Cover: November 2008
Mississippi Hunters are experts a coming up with out-of-the-box methods for luring big bucks into range. […]
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Happy Trails
Deer hunters are always looking for an edge to help them harvest that buck of a lifetime, and as any successful deer hunter will acknowledge, information is the most valuable resource when hunting trophy whitetails. […]
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Channel Surfing
This month, the most watched channels for crappie anglers won’t be on TV; they’ll be on Ross Barnett Reservoir. […]