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Second generation Cool Breeze high performance shirts, which are available in both long-sleeve and short-sleeve models, feature moisture-activated cooling technology that will keep you cool and comfortable all summer long.

Cool Breeze just got cooler

May 11, 2015 Patrick Bonin

There’s a new Cool Breeze blowing in, and it will definitely keep you comfortable all summer long. […]

Layne Carpenter, 12, caught the fish of a lifetime five minutes into his tournament-fishing career.

You can’t make stuff like this up

May 7, 2015 Paul Johnson

Fishermen are known to tell tall tales — we all know that. How do you know when a fisherman is telling a lie? His lips are moving — right? […]

Lyme disease is only one of the illnesses spread by ticks, so it's important to know how to avoid such infections.

Best ways to avoid tick-borne diseases

May 6, 2015 Dan Kibler

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick.

It’s not necessarily the sound of a time bomb, but it just might be. […]

Mississippi's first spring squirrel season is another opportunity to introduce children to small game hunting.

Squirrel hunters mixed on spring season

May 6, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Avid squirrel hunter Mark Beason of Jackson knows snakes are a springtime problem for his champion squirrel dogs, but it won’t stop him from spending time in the woods during Mississippi’s first May season. […]

First cricket in the water on May's full moon put the first bluegill in the boat.

Bream are bedding and biting

May 5, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

My bobber settled on the surface of the 60-acre lake just long enough for the small split-shot weight, hook and minnow to make the 1-inch piece of orange and white Styrofoam stand vertical. […]

Jessica’s Sauce Piquant

May 5, 2015 Jerald Horst

Justin Head’s family makes sauce piquants using game, but his wife Jessica wanted a version for fish. She did some research on basic sauce piquant recipes and adapted them to her taste. […]

Hand-grabbers target big flathead catfish by reaching into their nests, getting bit and then wrestling the big fish to the surface.

Grabbling season open

May 4, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Mississippi’s noodling season — a.k.a. hand-grabbing or grabbling season — opened statewide Friday (May 1) and will continue through July 15. […]

Old Muddy’s fish production is dependent upon the flooding of batture land each spring.

Fish need water

May 4, 2015 Hal Schramm

As I write this in late March, the Mississippi River is at flood stage, 12 feet above normal stage for this date, and rising. Hopefully this will not be a repeat of 2011, when the river reached a record high stage at Vicksburg and threatened to top or blow out levees. […]

Cranking bridge riprap early in the morning can be a highly productive shad spawn pattern.

Spawn sensation — How to catch bass during the shad spawn

May 1, 2015 David A. Brown

It might sound rude, intrusive, bad form, but in lakes, ponds and rivers throughout the state it’s apparently just fine to interrupt the intimate moments of others. […]

Bluegills are more likely named for the bluish hue on the bottom of their gill covers than for the dark tab extending from the rear of the cover.

Confessions of a bream killer — Expert bream-fishing tips

May 1, 2015 Jerald Horst

Sometimes you can hardly keep bream out of your boat, but when the bite gets tough you have to know how to adjust. Here are some tips from a man who has perfected the art of catching these tasty panfish. […]

Cover: May 2015

May 1, 2015 Mississippi Sportsman

It’s time for bream to bed up, so learn everything needed to catch stringers of the tasty panfish every time you hit the water. […]

The Gator Country

May 1, 2015 Mississippi Sportsman

Ruger and TALO Distributors combined recently to produce a limited edition of the .22LR rifle with an extremely detailed and textured reptile design. The Gator Country 10/22 features a beautifully carved Gator head cut into the walnut stock of an 18 ½-inch barrel, with a gold bead front sight on the Alloy Steel semi-auto. […]