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Hunt the Woodard way
Soon after Lakeisha Woodard spotted a group of does coming toward her stand on a hunt last year, things got crazy. […]
Statewide MS
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Squirrel away that knowledge
A tradition with roots in learning how to become one with the woods, Mississippi’s squirrel season is a popular October event. […]
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Tips from an archery shop
In Columbia, Waldo’s Sports Center is where a lot of south Mississippi hunters get ready for the season. […]
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Cover: October 2017
Deer hunting gets going this month across Mississippi, with hunters facing restrictions on taking antlerless deer and still expecting a great season. […]
Ducks
Tri-Star’s latest shotgun debuts in time for duck hunters
I’m reasonably certain that my quest for a shotgun to devote entirely to waterfowl hunting has come to an end.
A successful one. […]
Deer Hunting
Black Widow Deer Lures
Black Widow Deer Lures is the only scent company that strictly collects and bottles fresh deer urine from the southern whitetail deer. Southern deer eat different foliage, browse, fruits and nuts then their cousins the Northern whitetail deer, and this changes the smell and glandular secretions in the urine. […]
Deer Hunting
Archery, squirrel seasons open Saturday
What most bow hunters would call a blessing — cooler weather — for the opening weekend of the archery deer season, Gene Glover of Jackson calls a curse. […]
Crappie/Bream
Slim Jimmys
Before there was a Cooyon Croaker, Kaplan-based Cajun Lures probably was best known for the little soft plastic that slayed sac-a-lait here, there and everywhere. […]
Deer Hunting
Practical strategies for success
In the last couple of installments of “Happy Trails” we have been peeling the onion back a few layers on the finer points of supplemental feeding. During the preseason period from late spring to early fall, consistent and properly done supplemental feeding accomplishes multiple things for your deer herd and potentially you as a deer hunter […]
Field Notes
Turn a Matrix Shad into a shrimp-imitation twitchbait
Many coastal anglers are probably familiar with Matrix Shad soft-plastic paddletail lures and how deadly they are when jigging for speckled trout.
Crappie/Bream
Top 7 tips for catching slabs in brush
Terry Blankenship’s passion is finding and catching crappie year-round. And the fish don’t stand a chance when the summer heat pushes fish out to deep, flooded brush and standing timber. […]
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Barnett Reservoir spillway to close during cleanup
The popular spillway fishing area below the Barnett Reservoir dam will be closed to recreation on Sept. 23-24 to accommodate a river-long clean up, the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District announced.