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Back in Black
Flowing through the heart of the Desoto National Forest, there is an often overlooked waterway that provides a challenging yet rewarding fishing adventure for anyone looking for something unique. […]
Statewide MS
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Early Birds
September in Mississippi is a wonderful time that signals the start of the fall hunting seasons. Magnolia hunters take to the fields in droves for the mouth-watering morsels we call mourning doves, but they aren’t the only feathery foods we can hunt in September. […]
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Maximizing Day Hunts
Hunting is a time-intensive activity. Unfortunately in this fast paced whirlwind world, time is a prized commodity. We all have so many obligations with church, family, work, civic duties and everything else it is increasingly difficult to squeeze in just one day of hunting every so often. […]
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September Slabs
Many Mississippians have discovered the pleasures of retirement near the water. Typically, all that’s required is a body of water with available land so that residents can enjoy their new surroundings. […]
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Cover: September 2008
Cory Vignes is one hunter who can’t wait for the 2008 deer season to open. […]
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2008 WMA Forecast
No hunting season can be looked at in isolation, since game-animal health this fall depends on what happened last season. […]
Hunting
Think outside the box for fall plots
It’s never too early to plan ahead for fall wildlife food plots. It may be hot as a firecracker outside with sweltering humidity to match, but the universal targeted Labor Day planting date is fast approaching. […]
Deer Hunting
Bruinsburg Bruiser ruins hunter for life
In 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant’s federal troops crossed the Mississippi River at a sleepy little town called Bruinsburg, where Bayou Pierre empties into the Mississippi below a magnificent mansion named Windsor that later burned, leaving only stately columns standing as mute testimony to the former glory the federal troops saw when they climbed those steep bluffs. […]
Bass Fishing
Largemouths rule Pickwick now
Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River, located in the corner of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, is making a comeback this year. The grass is growing in the lake, and the largemouth are responding to the additional habitat. The fishing has been really good there this year. […]
As Big As they Grow
Not a champ, but not a chump either
I just had one of the best crappie-fishing experiences ever, and I’d like to tell you about it. The Magnolia Crappie Club held the Magnolia State Crappie Championship on beautiful Wolf Lake recently. This was one of the best tournaments in the 16-year history of the state’s largest crappie club. […]
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Avoiding Ground Shrinkage
How many times at deer camp every season have you heard the immortal words of a disappointed deer hunter? […]
Bass Fishing
The Enid Equation
When quite a few 25-pound-plus stringers were weighed in by bass club anglers last year at Enid Lake, it invariably raised questions in the minds of state fisheries biologists. […]