Plains Region Archives - Page 10 of 20

Drag crankbaits through stake beds and gravel pads on Turkey Fork this month to get your line stretched.

Bassing Turkey Fork Lake in June

June 16, 2014 Paul Elias

The closest town to 250-acre Turkey Fork Lake, my pick for June bassing, is Sand Hill. This lake on federal land has been rehabilitated recently, and reopened in December 2013. […]

The new McHenry Shooting Range provides lots of options, including a great 5 Stand that provides real-world hunting situations.

MDWFP opens McHenry Shooting Range

June 4, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Shooters in South Mississippi have a new place to practice their skills and sharpen their aim, thanks to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. […]

Early in the month, bass will be feeding on bluegill spawning in shallows.

Bet on Calling Panther for May

May 15, 2014 Paul Elias

Calling Panther near Crystal Springs is a fairly new lake that holds numbers of big bass, timber, lily pads and other structure. […]

Rebecca Hall killed this trophy gobbler on April 12 in Simpson County. The big bird had an 11 ½-inch beard and 1 ¼-inch spurs.

Silent approach nets Hall’s trophy tom

April 23, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Three days into chasing a wily gobbler, with absolutely no success, Rebecca Hall and boyfriend Timothy Fox knew they had to make some drastic changes in strategy. […]

A combination of topwaters, crankbaits, buzzbaits and worms should produce plenty of fish on the Rez.

Bumping the stems at Ross Barnett

April 14, 2014 Paul Elias

April is a magic month, with bass readying to go on the bed, turkeys gobbling and everything in nature turning green. […]

Buck McKinion, 12, of Pelahatchie, with the nice gobbler he killed April 5 while hunting with father Johnny McKinion in Rankin County.

Youngster’s ears save hunt

April 10, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

The McKinions, dad Johnny and son Buck, were being treated to a very vocal show by a tom turkey early on Saturday morning (April 5), so much so that the thundering gobbles made it hard to hear anything else in that part of Rankin County. […]

Breck Farrior, 9, needed only five minutes on the opening morning of the youth turkey season in Mississippi to kill this gobbler in Hinds County.

Youngster gets the early bird

March 20, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Breck Farrior, age 9, of Learned has a pretty good reason to brag about the gobbler he killed on March 8, the opening morning of Mississippi’s youth turkey season. […]

Reed Rogers with his season-ending, limit-fulfilling 140-inch 10-point taken with his dad Steve Rogers on Jan. 31 near Jackson.

Rookie hunter fills limit with 140-inch 10-point

February 13, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Steve Rogers never fired a shot during Mississippi’s 2013-14 gun season on deer, but he’ll tell you right away “it is hands down, the best deer season I have ever had.” […]

Tommy Tinsley killed this 14-point palmated monster literally in his backyard in western Hinds County on Jan. 2.

Tinsley gets backyard monster

February 7, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

With a giant buck that will score somewhere between 178 to 201 inches, Tommy Tinsley is getting a last laugh on one of his hunting camp partners and good friends, Dan Hall of Vicksburg, and enjoying it to the max. […]

Ten-year-old Christian Michael Lancaster bagged his first trophy buck on Jan. 25. The 10-point buck green scored 144 and was taken by a single shot from Christian’s Ruger 77 in 7mm-08.

Young hunter bags trophy buck

January 28, 2014 John J. Woods

Like most 10-year-old kids this one likes to ride his bike through mud and eat Shipley’s Do-Nuts with his granddad, Bill. But mostly Christian Michael Lancaster is crazy about deer hunting. That is not an understatement either. […]

Brandon fireman Michael Nichols with the estimated 400-pound plus wild hog sow he killed in December in Hinds County.

This 400-pound pig is no boar

January 21, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Two things you need to know about the giant, probably 400-pound-plus hog that Michael Nichols of Brandon killed back in early December near Raymond in Hinds County. […]

Tanner Hornback, 8, of Lafayette, La., shot this 160-inch 10-point on Nov. 26 while hunting the Mississippi side of Belle Island Hunting Club near Vicksburg. It was the youngster's first buck.

Youngster’s first buck scores 160

January 17, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

With a big ol’ doe in the food plot already in his crosshairs, Tanner Hornback, 8, had been given the OK to pull the trigger by his mom, who was sitting beside him in the ground blind. […]