January 2019 Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Mississippi Sportsman

Mississippi’s Top 10 stories of 2018

January 1, 2019 Mississippi Sportsman

We researched the archives of MS-Sportsman.com and came up with the 10 most compelling stories of the year. […]

It’s never too late to take a big Mississippi buck

January 1, 2019 Michael O. Giles

The whitetail rut is underway in January in plenty of areas of Mississippi — just maybe not at the same times. […]

The black drum hold very closely to some of the area’s most productive wintertime speckled trout holes.

Black drum fill up dull, winter days along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast

January 1, 2019 Todd Masson

Battles with big, black drum ward off winter’s chill for Mississippi’s saltwater fishermen. […]

Jason Pugh of Dixon, a freshman at East Central Community, chose a well-used trail crossing under a power line in Neshoba County to bag this heavy-antlered buck.

Try these tricks for taking late-season Mississippi deer

January 1, 2019 David Hawkins

Take advantage of a whitetail’s response to hunting pressure to use your tags as Mississippi’s season wanes. […]

Ag fields and converted catfish ponds produced ducks last season, as Jacob Sartain (right) can attest.

Mississippi duck hunters look forward to great January

January 1, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

If January 2019 duck season is even close to 2018, Mississippi hunters will be in heaven. […]

Heath Hodges and his big 20-point Leflore County buck.

Hodges wins big buck lottery when brute dials his number

December 6, 2018 Glynn Harris

Heath Hodges won something akin to a big buck lottery on the afternoon of Dec. 3 when a huge 20-point brute chose his trail to walk down.

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Second Issaquena CWD case confirmed

November 30, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

A suspected second case of chronic wasting disease in Issaquena County has been confirmed, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks announced this week.

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Rick Reeves of Southaven with Samson, the 16-point he killed Nov. 18 on public land somewhere in North Mississippi.

Son puts pop on big public land buck

November 28, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

Rick and Nathanael Reeves had a rare kinship with a buck that covered several years, not far from their home in Southaven in DeSoto County, a deer so impressive they called it Samson.

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