April in the Magnolia State has to be my favorite time of the year. The dogwoods are in full bloom; the fragrant smell of wisteria hangs heavy in the cool spring air; the thunderous gobble of boss toms echoes in the distance; and there is plenty of great fishing for everyone to partake. […]
Have you ever noticed there is always one girl who is the prettiest of the group, one dog that is bigger than the pack, one clown in every class? […]
It has been said that a mule has more horse sense than a horse; it knows when to stop eating, and it knows when to stop working. It is that tendency to stop working that led to the sayings “lazy as a mule” and “stubborn like a mule.” […]
With just a few days to go before the turkey season opener, veteran turkey hunter Jerry McKinley, a native of Petal, was riding high. The mild winter and warm spring temperatures had the southern Mississippi landscape greening up nicely, and the word on the grapevine around his hunting camp on the edge of the DeSoto National Forest was that the turkeys were gobbling. […]
Mississippi has tons of public-land wild turkeys positioned all over the state. There is no trouble, though, figuring out just where they are. […]
How would you define the term “turkey pro?” Is it a outdoorsman who has been turkey hunting for many years? Is a pro at this sport one who consistently bags his gobbler limit every season? […]
Paul Brown dropped this massive main-frame 12-point buck on Jan. 16 in Holmes County. […]
Don Marascalco moved stealthily in the pre-dawn darkness shortly before daylight last April. The veteran turkey hunter had spotted a mature gobbler and a large harem of 24 hens in a pasture on a previous scouting trip near Meridian. […]
If you think your 13-year-old daughter is temperamental and mercurial, you haven’t ever spent much time with a Florida-strain largemouth bass. […]
As many crappie anglers know, March ushers in what the rest of the world refers to as “crappie season.” This can be a time of feast or famine with the major determining factors being wind and weather. […]
The recently closed deer-hunting season might not have been the coldest on record, but hunters still managed to knock down some genuine beasts. […]
It continually amazes me how things have changed since the days of my youth. Faced with the modern-day diversions of cell phones, video games, text messages, personal computers and myspace accounts, it is a wonder kids of today ever look to the outdoors for entertainment. […]
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