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Tommy Ware of Ocean Springs caught this 3-pound, 10-ounce rainbow trout in a Scooba pond Saturday (March 22) on a fly, establishing a new Mississippi record.

Fly produces new state rainbow trout record

March 26, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

If there is an ideal person to hold the odd record for the largest rainbow trout ever caught in Mississippi, it is Tommy Ware. […]

Sausage-stuffed venison meatloaf

March 26, 2014 Jerry Dilsaver

This recipe is something I had wanted to do for a while, and I had to experiment a bit to get it right. Several of the early attempts were actually pretty good, but just not what I was looking for. This is my base recipe, but I am constantly experimenting. I have a penchant for combining two things that taste good separately and seeing how they taste together. […]

Breck Farrior, 9, needed only five minutes on the opening morning of the youth turkey season in Mississippi to kill this gobbler in Hinds County.

Youngster gets the early bird

March 20, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Breck Farrior, age 9, of Learned has a pretty good reason to brag about the gobbler he killed on March 8, the opening morning of Mississippi’s youth turkey season. […]

The statewide squirrel season will be open Oct. 1 through Feb. 28.

Governor signs squirrel bill

March 19, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

It won’t be effective in time for this May, but beginning in 2015 Mississippi squirrel hunters will have a spring season […]

Boater rescued by MDMR officer

March 18, 2014 From News Reports

A Marine Patrol officer with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources was able to rescue a boater after his vessel capsized on March 15. […]

Barnett Reservoir is a top pick this month because of the excellent pre-spawn crappie fishing it has to offer.

March brings prespawn peak

March 16, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Whether you prefer bass or crappie, the third month of the year is the peak time to catch a big one. The fish are busy feeding to build up their energy for the spawning season, and generally achieve their biggest weights of the year. […]

The Archery in Mississippi Schools program has events scheduled this month and in April leading up to the AIMS state championship April 15-17.

Archery in Mississippi Schools events scheduled

March 14, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Archery is one of the fastest-growing programs in the state’s education system, with nearly 40,000 students participating in Archery in Mississippi Schools (AIMS). […]

Hayden Kyle, 9, a third grader from Pontotoc, got his first gobbler and a spring-break lesson Tuesday (March 11), while hunting with his dad, Jay Kyle.

Spring break lesson comes in turkey woods

March 13, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Spring break and youth turkey season in the same week, could it be?

You bet and the ideal scenario worked perfectly for Hayden Kyle, 9, a third grader at Pontotoc City School. One of thousands of kids out of school in Mississippi this week, Kyle learned an important lesson in the woods. […]

Taylor Cannon, 13, harvested this squirrel on Feb. 24 in Raymond. If Senate Bill 2369 gets signed into law, there would be a unified opening day of the regular fall-winter squirrel season and all zones would have a new spring season.

Squirrel season bill headed to governor

March 13, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

A bill that will provide as much as six new weeks of squirrel hunting opportunity has passed both sides of the Mississippi Legislature and is headed to Gov. Phil Bryant’s desk. […]

For Rabbit Rogers, there's no room, or need, for minnows in his boat, especially during the crappie spawn. He's a jig man, through and through.

Crappie question: Jig or minnow? Or both?

March 9, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

“Is a minnow always necessary?”

One of the crappie fishermen in line at Tommy’s Trading Post on the upper end of Barnett Reservoir asked the question, probably tired of shelling out $10 a day for enough minnows to last the morning. […]

When Swayze Rawlings was 9, he killed his first gobbler with help from his dad Revel Rawlings of Ridgeland and his dad's wise selection of accessories.

Accessories increase youth’s turkey odds

March 5, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

When it comes to killing turkeys, Revel Rawlings of Ridgeland is one of the best.

Even then, the former president of the Mississippi Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation knows he needed all the help he could get when his two sons started chasing gobblers with him. […]

Bass pro Pete Ponds knows the swimming lizard is deadly on pre-spawn buck bass when they move extremely shallow on vegetation.

Pre-spawn debate: Swimming jig vs. swimming lizard

March 5, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Let’s get ready to caaaaassssssttttttttt!

In this corner, weighing in at roughly 3/16s of an ounce and wearing mostly natural colors, the long-time champion of pre-spawn bass baits, the soft-plastic swimming lizard. […]