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November 9, 2018 Mississippi Sportsman

We value your input and want to see what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. Here’s how to become part of our Sportsman community… it’s easy. […]

This largemouth bass, and 19 more like it, was caught on a 1/4-ounce, green pumpkin finesse jig with a small trailer after other baits, including a similar-sized, black/blue jig, failed to generate bites.

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November 7, 2018 Hal Schramm

Catching your target fish is easy some days, hard or even seemingly impossible other days. […]

Specklebellies typically don’t arrive in Mississippi until the latter parts of the season.

Plenty of shooting on the wing

November 5, 2018 Bobby Cleveland

For waterfowlers who just don’t want to wait for the duck season to get a little wet and muddy, there’s the regular goose season that starts well in advance of duck season this fall. […]

The allure of chasing whitetails is a lifelong addiction for Mississippi hunters.

The timeless allure of hunting

November 1, 2018 David Hawkins

For every hunter, there is a shaft of light, an opening in the woods, or a corner of a green field where his or her buck of a lifetime stands in regal splendor albeit in a dream. […]

Forget what you’ve learned about catfish always being bottom dwellers. Catfish pros like David Shipman of Corinth know they suspend and have figured out how to catch them higher in the water column.

Catfish off the bottom

November 1, 2018 Phillip Gentry

Think of all of your hunting and fishing pursuits and imagine your quarry in its preferred environment. […]

Hunting in early November gives a hunter a chance to catch bucks acting naturally, before pressure drives them deeper in the woods or later in the night.

Hayes Nance was scanning the area around his stand, looking for a deer or any sign of movement, when, without warning, the woods came alive, and a couple of yearlings burst out, followed close behind by their mothers. […]

Sitting on the camp’s front porch is just part of the club experience for Lincoln County hunter Shane McCullough. Joining a hunting club is a tradition for many Mississippi hunters.

How to raise deer ‘clubbing’ to an art form in Mississippi

November 1, 2018 Andy Douglas

Tactics to keep hunting clubs vibrant and alive include changes in management of leased land, beyond just economic or membership moves. […]

A climbing stand gives deer hunters several advantages when it comes to taking a big buck.

Climb for the prize

November 1, 2018 Phillip Gentry

If you were to survey any given piece of hunting property, there are areas that cry out to be hunted. A majority of times, these areas are soon saddled with a permanent hunting stand, be it a ladder, box or other permanent fixture. A hunter may even take one or more deer from that stand the next season, or it may be one of those rare stands that produces every season. But the reason that site was chosen is because it looked good to the hunter, not because it was conducive to the deer. […]