Hunting
Primos Turbo Dogg
The Primos Turbo Dogg, which can store up to 500 sounds, comes already equipped with 36 sounds and 4 preprogrammed calling sequences from Team Primos experts. […]
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Freshwater Fishing
Mississippi Two-Step — How to catch crappie on oxbow lakes
“You can tell it’s starting to turn winter around here,” laughs Tim Carpenter, owner of Eagle Lake Lodge and Outfitters near Vicksburg. […]
Hunting
Ruger 10-22: from caterpillar to butterfly
I remember the first Ruger 10-22 carbine I came across. […]
Fishing
Pontoon pinging is a little different
A friend showed me his new pontoon boat, and I was impressed until I saw how a sonar transducer was mounted on the back of a pontoon. […]
Bass Fishing
Fishing
Time to consider changing to LED trailer lights
The lights on your trailer are your boat’s first line of defense against collisions. Running lights show other drivers that you have a boat behind you when towing in the dark. […]
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Hooked on Quack — Make effective use of duck calls
The water was high, but it wouldn’t be for long.
A northwest wind baring fangs sharpened in Canada tore through our camo coats and waders, making the short night spent in our warm beds seem like some type of surreal fantasy. […]
Deer Hunting
150-inch, 150-pound buck raises ‘short deer’ discussion
Normally, a 150-inch 9-point taken from the Big Black River bottoms of Hinds County would not get a lot of attention, but, then, nothing about Wil Moore’s buck is normal. […]
Deer Hunting
Now or Never?
Ronnie Corkern had to wait only one year to see the value of quality-buck management. […]
Bass Fishing
Tricks to warming up Mississippi’s cold water bass
Working the dam at Calling Panther Lake near Crystal Springs, I kept the boat parallel to the riprap and launched the long, thin Pro Pointer 100 jerkbait as close to the rocks as I could.
With three quick jerks of the rod tip, I put the lure to work.
And, then, I stopped and let the bait’s suspending characteristics do the work. […]
Ducks
Duck Down-low — Tips to keep birds falling into your decoy spread
As hunters huddled in the frosty blind below, a flock of gadwalls rocketed high over the reclaimed catfish pond and circled, deciding whether to land or not. Surely, the 150 mallard decoys spread over every square inch of the pond since late October would attract these birds. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Crappie Hotspots – Pickwick Lake
Located at the most-northern reach of the Tom-Bigbee Waterway, Pickwick Lake is synonymous with crappie fishing to many anglers in the tri-state areas of Northeast Mississippi, Northwest Alabama, and Southern Tennessee.
Pickwick’s clear waters are in stark contrast to most of Mississippi’s other notable crappie lakes, but its reputation as a slab crappie fishery is well earned.
As cooler weather settles in for the season, two things occur that help crappie anglers hone in on their favorite game fish. With flood control as one of the lake’s primary objectives, the Tennessee Valley Authority begins drawing the impoundment down to winter pool. In reaction to both the receding and cooling water, crappie tend to congregate along the main channels of Pickwick’s major tributaries. […]