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Mann’s C-4 Elite-series crankbaits run about 4 feet deep. Pro Paul Elias uses this bait in March along wood cover on Turkey Creek.

Bet on Turkey Creek for March bass

February 29, 2008 Paul Elias

As the weather warms, Mississippi bass will be moving to the spawning flats. I like to fish Turkey Creek in Decatur in March. This 400- to 500-acre lake has several pockets and arms with lily pads, which generally provide excellent spawning flats for bass. The stems represent the vertical structure that bass like to hold around, and the pads on the surface offer cover and shade. Baitfish, bream, crappie and all types of fish besides bass like to live under the lily pads. […]

Bed fishing is extremely popular in many Mississippi lakes, just as it is across much of the South. This activity can harm bass-spawn success, but there are some steps anglers can take to mitigate the impact.

Does it hurt to fish bedding bass?

February 29, 2008 Hal Schramm

Spring. The water has warmed to 62 degrees in shallow coves and pockets. Time for bass to start bedding. […]

Cover: March 2008

February 29, 2008 Mississippi Sportsman

Paul Brown dropped this massive main-frame 12-point buck on Jan. 16 in Holmes County. […]

In addition to offering concealment (main pic), blinds also make hunting much more comfortable.

Blinds have definite advantages

February 29, 2008 John J. Woods

They say if you can see the sun glint off the eyeballs of a game animal that you must be really close to it. […]

Barry and Tony Warnock of Vicksburg boated these slabs during a Magnolia Crappie Club tournament on Grenada.

Flat-lining still works on crappie

February 29, 2008 Paul Johnson

Funny how things have evolved in crappie fishing, isn’t it? I mean, if you’re like me, you’ve tried lots of different things to catch a white perch. […]

Turkeys that survived Katrina not only became older, but wiser as well.

Trophy Toms

February 29, 2008 Michael O. Giles

Don Marascalco moved stealthily in the pre-dawn darkness shortly before daylight last April. The veteran turkey hunter had spotted a mature gobbler and a large harem of 24 hens in a pasture on a previous scouting trip near Meridian. […]

Jigs are popular on the lake because they can be fished on the channel drop-offs and for bass spawning on logs in 6 to 8 feet of water.

Natchez Knuckleball

February 29, 2008 Chris Ginn

If you think your 13-year-old daughter is temperamental and mercurial, you haven’t ever spent much time with a Florida-strain largemouth bass. […]

The ledges around the Highway 43 bridge crossing Barnett Reservoir can be a hotspot for spring trolling.

It’s Crappie Season

February 29, 2008 Phillip Gentry

As many crappie anglers know, March ushers in what the rest of the world refers to as “crappie season.” This can be a time of feast or famine with the major determining factors being wind and weather. […]

After a relentless pursuit, Justin Malouf’s perseverance paid off when he was finally able to kill this massive buck nicknamed “Big Freak Nasty.”

Deer of the Year

February 28, 2008 Andy Crawford

The recently closed deer-hunting season might not have been the coldest on record, but hunters still managed to knock down some genuine beasts. […]

Small boats open up new waters to anglers, and provide them access to fish that have never seen artificial lures.

Going Small to Get Big

February 28, 2008 Cliff Covington

It continually amazes me how things have changed since the days of my youth. Faced with the modern-day diversions of cell phones, video games, text messages, personal computers and myspace accounts, it is a wonder kids of today ever look to the outdoors for entertainment. […]

If you’re legally carrying your firearm, law-enforcement authorities have no right to seize it during a traffic stop.

You don’t lose gun rights in traffic stop

January 24, 2008 Gordon Hutchinson

“Do I look like a thug?” The gentleman who asked this question was dressed casually and stylishly. He looked like a middle-class male, about 40 years of age. No obvious tattoos, he had short-cropped hair. Tall, average weight, well-spoken, to my eyes he looked like anything but a street criminal, and I said so. […]

Hunting rabbits is more productive in February because by now, heavy frosts in December and January have knocked back briars and other foliage that makes hunting tough.

Rabbits wrap up the winter season

January 23, 2008 John J. Woods

Whoa daddy, the hunting season isn’t over yet. Now is the perfect time for some quality small-game hunting and for squirrel or rabbit hunters to dominate the woods and fields. Right now through the end of February, small-game hunters can capitalize on the best hunting conditions of the entire season. This is especially true for rabbit hunting across the Magnolia State. […]