November 2018 Archives - Page 2 of 3

The mouth of the sheepshead is loaded with odd teeth, much like sheep, that can inflict damage on weak tackle and ill-placed fingers.

Sheepshead ugly and, boy, what teeth …

November 15, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

Sheepshead got their name for a reason: their faces forevermore look like those of sheep, with teeth that can do harm to weak hooks and an ill-placed finger. […]

Glenn Young caught this redfish and a host of others on a Z-Man ChatterBait while fishing Venice last month.

How to have redfish success with a chatterbait

November 15, 2018 Todd Masson

Most Gulf Coast anglers have seen, either in person or in videos, redfish in water that’s so clear, it looks like it should have been delivered by the Kentwood man. […]

Duck season won’t really start rocking until late December or January, but hunters get four days in November (23, 24, 25 and 30) to hunt.

Get quacking come Thanksgiving weekend

November 14, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

After what was, at best, a decent teal season in the latter part of September, Mississippi duck hunters are hungry for more. No, make that starving. […]

Fishing down the riprap early in the morning in water only 1 to 2 feet deep, you may be surprised at the size of November bass you can catch on Maynor Creek.

Fish Maynor Creek for November bass

November 13, 2018 Paul Elias

On Maynor Creek, a 500-acre lake near Waynesboro, bass are generally holding shallow this month. The grass breaking up makes accessible sections of the lake that have been almost inaccessible to anglers earlier in the year; you can see baitfish concentrating in the grass and be able to catch the big bass that have been holding deep in the grass earlier in the year. […]

This largemouth bass, and 19 more like it, was caught on a 1/4-ounce, green pumpkin finesse jig with a small trailer after other baits, including a similar-sized, black/blue jig, failed to generate bites.

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November 7, 2018 Hal Schramm

Catching your target fish is easy some days, hard or even seemingly impossible other days. […]

Specklebellies typically don’t arrive in Mississippi until the latter parts of the season.

Plenty of shooting on the wing

November 5, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

For waterfowlers who just don’t want to wait for the duck season to get a little wet and muddy, there’s the regular goose season that starts well in advance of duck season this fall. […]

Nikon’s BLACK riflescopes

November 1, 2018 Mississippi Sportsman

Engineered to deliver your longest shots with confident precision, the new BLACK FX1000 is set to raise eyebrows and expectations among long-range shooters. […]

A climbing stand gives deer hunters several advantages when it comes to taking a big buck.

Climb for the prize

November 1, 2018 Phillip Gentry

If you were to survey any given piece of hunting property, there are areas that cry out to be hunted. A majority of times, these areas are soon saddled with a permanent hunting stand, be it a ladder, box or other permanent fixture. A hunter may even take one or more deer from that stand the next season, or it may be one of those rare stands that produces every season. But the reason that site was chosen is because it looked good to the hunter, not because it was conducive to the deer. […]