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Harvesting antlerless deer is part of a management strategy that has led to better bucks in the Mississippi population.

Doe limit change creates confusion

August 1, 2017 Bobby Cleveland

Befuddled, an adjective, defined by Webster to mean a state of confusion, with synonyms, among others, like discombobulated, bewildered, dazed and stupefied. […]

Finding lunker bass in August’s hot water

August 1, 2017 Phillip Gentry

Dry conditions create clear water, which tends to push bass deeper into structure in Mississippi River oxbow lakes. […]

Cover: August 2017

August 1, 2017 Mississippi Sportsman

Summertime is the time to unleash large plastics rigged a variety of ways. Even a shaky head can catch whoppers like this 7 pounder. […]

William Flournoy caught this 8 ½-pound bass on one of his Uncle Lonnie Stanley’s new Stanley Standup Football Jigs at Lake Sam Rayburn.

The Stanley Standup Football Jig

July 27, 2017 Don Shoopman

Lonnie Stanley does more than talk a good bass fishing game; he makes solid baits, too.

The East Texas native who lives in Huntington, Texas, home of Stanley Jigs, has been making artificial lures for more than 30 years that are good enough for the pros to catch bass on, which “makes it a lot easier for the regular guy to catch fish,” Stanley told bassfishingarchives.com in 2015. […]

Units can use overlays to combine features and save screen space. The top right window of this split-screen image capture shows the submerged remains of a bridge piling in DownScan detail. The window below it shows the DownScan detail overlaid on a conventional 2D view with Lowrance’s DownScan Overlay feature so you can see the image displayed with both types of sonar.

The big screen advantage

July 24, 2017 Allan Tarvid

“Multifunction display” grows in meaning with each new generation of marine electronics. Sonar functions now include traditional down-looking 2-D scanning with and without CHIRP, high-definition side and down scanning, live forward scanning, 360-degree circular scanning and a choice of frequencies to optimize each type for either maximum detail or greatest scanning depth/distance. […]

Zeringue’s system can hold 300 to 400 croakers for an extended period of time.

Live bait life support

July 20, 2017 Jerald Horst

Live bait is considered critical for success by the anglers. Whether croakers, cocahoe minnows or mullet are used, live bait must, by definition, be kept alive to be used. […]

The Flounder Fanatic Bottom hook rigged with a plastic.

More flat fish, fewer junk fish

July 19, 2017 John Flores

Because of the sideways bite of a flounder, traditional jigs leave a few fish on the table. However, Betts’ Flounder Fanatic hooks are a good way to increase your catch. […]

Summertime protein feeding can pay big dividends down the road.

Helping your deer herd

July 19, 2017 Bill Garbo

I sit down to write this installment of Happy Trails after spending yesterday morning in the deer woods of southwest Mississippi, attending to tasks associated with supplemental feeder sites and salt/mineral stations. It was hot and humid and horse flies the size of nickels were buzzing around our heads, but other than that it was a fun and interesting time. […]