Bass Fishing
Lake Ohkissa ripe for sightfishing
The forecast for Thursday (April 7) was for high winds, but Craig Graham wasn’t worried because it was blowing out of the south. That, the Lake Okhissa veteran said, is perfect. […]
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Bass Fishing
Frierson wins March edition of online Big Bass Contest
MS-Sportsman user Eli Frierson won the March installment of the Big Bass Contest with a photo of him holding a Pearl River monster he estimated would weigh more than 10 pounds. […]
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Turkey trifecta provides family memories
Nowhere else across this country do wild turkeys receive more hunting pressure than right here in Mississippi. This intense hunting pressure results in our Magnolia State longbeards being a little bit wiser, a little bit spookier and a whole lot harder to kill than gobblers in any other state. […]
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Pending state record AJ landed near Horseshoe Rigs
The group of seven anglers leaving Ocean Springs Harbor on March 18 had one destination and one species in mind: the Horseshoe Rigs and amberjack. When they came home, they carried the pending state record AJ. […]
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‘renot16’ takes weird-looking gobbler
Wiggins hunter Matt Renot knew there was a gobbler living behind his grandfather’s Stone County home, but when he headed to the woods yesterday (March 23) he didn’t even think about chasing the bird.
“We’ve heard it gobbling back there for the past three years, but nobody could get it to do anything,” said Renot, pointing out that no one had even laid eyes on the wary turkey. “My grandfather said he was going to listen (for gobbling) there, and I said I was going to my hunting club and listen.” […]
Deer Hunting
Shaffer buck misses B&C all-time record book by 3 1/2 inches
On Dec. 2, the opening day of primitive weapon season, Dwight Shaffer was waiting for his brother Burnell to pick him up and drive to a nearby hunting camp for an afternoon hunt.
Then his wife’s father interrupted with his latest story about a big deer he’d been seeing, news that nearly landed Shaffer in the Boone & Crockett Record Book of North American Big Game. […]
Bass Fishing
‘TedPearce’ takes February Big Bass Contest
MS-Sportsman.com user Ted Pearce won the February edition of the Big Bass Contest for a photo showing him with two 7-pounders on the banks of Lake Lincoln. […]
Bass Fishing
Calling Panther lake record broken twice in a week
When James Allen of Crystal Springs headed to Calling Panther Lake on Feb. 26, he had his sights set on landing a lunker largemouth. And since his neighbor, David Howell had just broken the old lake record the previous weekend with a 27 ½-inch-long, 14-pound, 1-ounce trophy Allen knew that the time was right to be wetting his line in the waters of the lake near his home.
Incredibly, David Howell also held the old lake record, a 13-pound, 4-ounce sow caught back on Feb. 2, 2009. […]
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VanDam sets Bassmaster Classic record on way to fourth championship title
It’s hard to tell who exactly was the star of the 2011 Bassmaster Classic.
Was it Kevin VanDam, the now four-time Classic winner, who threw 69 pounds of bass on the scales to crush the dreams of 49 other anglers?
Or was it the Lake Cataouatche Tank Pond, a non-descript rectangle of shallow water that delivered lunker after lunker for each of the top three finishers?
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Classic information available on sister site
The Bassmaster Classic is arguably the biggest bass-fishing championship in the world, and it’s coming to New Orleans Feb. 18-20. To provide continuous updates about all the festivities, our sister site – LouisianaSportsman.com – has launched a section dedicated to the tournament.
“This is such an important event that we wanted to accumulate all Classic information in once place so our users can go to one place and learn everything they need to know,” MS-Sportsman.com’s Andy Crawford said. “It’s really one-stop Classic shopping.” […]
Deer Hunting
Palmer, Hester win online photo contests grand prizes
Jackson Palmer and Jared Hester won the grand-prize round of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam photo contests. The two MS-Sportsman.com users’ photos were chosen by the site’s users.
The two contest winners earned berths in the grand-prize round of voting by winning monthly contests. […]
Deer Hunting
Palmer, Bankston win deer photo monthly contests; finals round begins
MS-Sportman.com users Jackson Palmer and Justin Bankston took top honors in the final monthly edition of the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam photo contests. Palmer and Bankston now move on to the grand-prize round of voting that begins this afternoon.
Each of the users will receive an Official Sportsman Gear prize pack that includes a Sportsman T-shirt, a decal and a free one-year subscription to Mississippi Sportsman magazine. […]