It’s that time of year, when bass begin thinking of love and big females start making their way to bedding areas. And that means anglers begin picking them off. Whether it’s Ross Barnett, Calling Panther or one of the Mississippi River oxbows, now is the time to start looking for that wallhanger. […]
It’s time for MS-Sportsman.com users to choose the final monthly winners in the Nikon Deer of the Year and Trail Cam contests. The winner from each of these contests will move on to the final round of voting in which the grand prize winner will be announced. […]
With an average annual rainfall of almost 60 inches, Mississippi is the third wettest state in the U.S. Much of that rain falls in late winter and early spring. While filling the rivers, streams and reservoirs that provide bountiful fisheries, the rains negatively affect fisheries by transporting erodible soils from the watershed into fishable waters. […]
A true friend is someone who thinks you’re a good egg — even though he knows you’re slightly cracked. Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to lose and impossible to forget. It takes a long time to make an old friend. […]
A few issues back, we looked at emergency locator beacons that use the international search and rescue satellite system, and I mentioned that there is another choice, the SPOT satellite GPS messenger. While the EPIRBs and PLBs we looked at before communicate with U.S. and European emergency satellites, SPOT units use the commercial satellite network that supports satellite telephone and Internet communication. And while EPIRBs and PLBs are last-resort devices to be used only in life-threatening emergencies, SPOT can send less-intense transmissions and handle other tasks as well. […]
By every small-game hunter’s time clock, it is the rabbit-running time of year. Rabbit hunters know the woods and fields have settled down since the end of deer season. The only orange vests being worn now by most hunters across the state are out rabbit hunting. […]
Capt. Matthew Tusa with Shore Thing Charters in Bay St. Louis says sheepshead will be your best bet in February, but fishing for redfish, black drum and flounder can heat up, if the weather warms up. […]
Ben Boteler was spending his Saturday afternoon in January the way he does most Saturdays. He was in a deer stand on his hunt club at Willow Break located near the town of Redmon in Southwest Mississippi. The 3,800-acre club borders the Yazoo River and offers prime habitat for big deer. […]
Anglers are notorious for jumping the gun. Just as soon as Jack Frost quits nipping at their noses, they hook up their boats and hit the lakes. For too many, though, they find that the fishing doesn’t match the forecast. […]
Yankee outdoorsmen hate February, but here in the South, there’s no end to this month’s opportunities. […]
Pinnacle has introduced a new series of 15 custom-quality rods that cover a wide range of bass-fishing situations. […]
The Deer Hunter’s and Land Manager’s Pocket Reference, written by J. Wayne Fears, is a one-of-a-kind guide filled with valuable information including managing plants and land for deer, deer harvest information, butchering tips, getting the pH of a food plot, how to find a deer biologist where you live, and much, much more. […]
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