Heartland Region Archives - Page 20 of 25

Crappie gather where eddy currents form below the spillway at the Ross Barnett Reservoir. This attracts crappie anglers who fill their limits of slabs in the small areas.

Cold Case — Tips for fishing for cold-water crappie

January 1, 2013 David Hawkins

January is a time of new beginnings. A few souls actually make resolutions with the intention of keeping them, but for most the first month of a new year only marks the passing of the holiday season and time to return to the grind.

For crappie anglers across the state, however, January marks a time when crappie start to stir in the waters of the reservoirs of the Magnolia State.

Here are some tips for fishing for cold-water crappie.
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Nikki Hoff put her deer hunting skills to use on the Enid Reservoir.

Engineering Deer — Hunting tips for Enid Lake deer

January 1, 2013 John J. Woods

The negative stigma associated with hunting public lands in the Magnolia State needs to be dispelled. As hunters we simply cannot turn our backs on nearly 2 million acres of prime hunting property, which after all is land that actually belongs to us. […]

Jason Golden of Lakeway Sporting Goods in Grenada suggested another look at Grenada Lake was in order to reveal a winter drawdown crappie fishery like no other.

Crappie fishing hotspots — Grenada Lake Encore

December 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Back in March of this year, the Mississippi Sportsman Crappie Hotspot Series made a stop at the official home of the 3-pound crappie, Grenada Lake, and provided 10 hotspots for spring crappie fishing and tips on how to catch them. […]

Golden’s go-to bait during the winter is a made-over Sassy Shad body rigged on a 1/10-ounce football head jig.

Crappie re-baits

December 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

When asked which tactics and baits he preferred to land big Grenada crappie during the winter drawdown months, Lakeway Archery & Outfitters owner Jason Golden didn’t mince words. In fact, he has just one favorite tactic and one favorite bait. […]

Lakeway has been a sportsman’s icon in the Grenada Lake area for over 20 years and has evolved from a convenience store and bait shop to a full service hunting and fishing headquarters.

Lakeway Archery & Outfitters

December 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Over 20 years ago, as an enterprising young sportsman, Jason Golden opened Lakeway Sporting Goods as a convenience store that sold fishing supplies on the side. […]

A hog hunt by Calhoun City's Shane Ragon ended in the killing of this massive buck, which has been greenscored at more than 200 inches Pope & Young.

Calhoun County hunt ends with Top-3 archery buck

October 17, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

It was fitting that Shane Ragon fell to his knees when he first put his hands on the massive antlers of the buck he killed Oct. 6 in the middle of a sweet potato field near his home in Calhoun County.

Heck, he was on both knees when he made the shot.

“I am not ashamed to tell you that I got very emotional when I grabbed those antlers and lifted them up and saw what I had done,” the 40-year-old Ragon said. “I cried. I laughed. I cried again. And I laughed again. […]

Jeffrey Wood (left) had a slow start to the 2012-13 squirrel-hunting season, in large part because of the warm weather.

Squirrel season starts off with a thud

October 16, 2012 M.A. Fisher

The squirrel-hunting season in Mississippi got off to a slow start last weekend, due in large part to very warm temperatures, according to two avid hunters in the central part of the state. […]

Bogue Homa Lake is known for a lot of smaller fish, but there are some big bass prowling about the reservoir.

Bet on Bogue Homa this month

October 15, 2012 Paul Elias

Restocked about four years ago, Bogue Homa Lake is really producing a lot of bass, with a few weighing 5 to 7 pounds. Bogue Homa is about 1,000 acres with plenty of grass, lily pads and cypress trees, as well as well-defined creek channels with stumps sitting in them. […]