June 2019 Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Mississippi Sportsman

The Archery in Mississippi Schools championship drew around 6,600 students out of 70,000 involved in the program statewide.

AIMS’ state championship draws 6,600

May 24, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

With an increase in participation, that included more than 6,000 in the 2019 state championships, Archery in Mississippi Schools is growing in popularity. […]

Mississippi’s record for alligator gar by archery has been broken for the second time in two years.

State gator gar record is broken

May 16, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

On April 22, Hughes Skinner of Madison and Hayden Speed of Flora broke the Mississippi state record for alligator gar with an 8-foot, 223-pound entry. […]

Revel Rawlings with his gobbler from Homochitto National Forest on April 23. It had a 1.12-inch spurs, a 10.5-inch beard and weighed 19 pounds.

Rawlings legendary Mississippi turkey triple

May 7, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

Revel Rawlings accomplished something incredible in a three-day period in Mississippi. He killed three gobblers on three different National Forests. […]

Hunter Waltman of Kiln killed this solid white gobbler on March 17, 2019.

Hunter kills solid white turkey

May 2, 2019 Brian Cope

Hunter Waltman of Kiln, Miss., killed a solid white gobbler on March 17. By then, he was intimately familiar with the animal. […]

The slumbering long-beard sits in a logging road with his head tucked away underneath his wing.

A sleeper at Canemount WMA

April 18, 2019 Andy Douglas

Lincoln County hunter Ricky Case harvested a sleeping gobbler on Canemount WMA. While cleaning the turkey, he discovered two shotgun pellet wounds in its breast area. […]

Freddie McMullen doesn’t sit at home when summer temperatures rise — instead he keeps catching bream.

Tips to keep bream fishing hot all summer

July 23, 2015 Jerald Horst

Freddie McMullen is a bream-catching expert, who honed his skills on Louisiana’s Black Bayou Lake. Here are his tips for filling the ice chest every time you hit the water. […]

Brad Taylor knows finding bream beds can be the key to catching numbers of huge panfish.

How to mop up on bedding bream

June 21, 2015 Terry Madewell

Spawning bluegills and shellcrackers take over the shallows as summer approaches. Here’s how to catch a mess of them on fishing beds. […]

Bream fishing can be a lot of fun, as well as very productive — if you know the right approach.

Top 8 tips for more bream

June 20, 2015 Jerald Horst

Veteran angler Freddie McMullen has learned how to up his odds of success. Here are his tips to fill that cooler with slab-sized sunfish. […]

Flat-out fun — Tips for catching flounder

June 1, 2014 Sam Davis

Kyle Perry says bass anglers will see similarities in the approaches to putting delectable flounder in the boat this summer. […]

According to deer biologist William McKinley, food plots could be critical this year.

Checking soil pH good way to spend camp workday

June 25, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

How to get the best out of spending a summer day, in Mississippi’s brutal heat, working on food plots, paths and deer stands. […]

Yard crashers – How to fish grass beds for bass

June 1, 2013 David A. Brown

When bass hide in vegetation as thick as your back yard, take the game to them by following these experts’ advice for utilizing grass environments. […]

Off the shelf: Fishing ledges for more bass

June 1, 2012 Michael O. Giles

During June and July, offshore ledges are the place to fish for schools of bass, and you can really mop up with crankbaits once you find them. […]