As Ol’ Man Winter slowly releases his grip on the Deep South, many of us will find ourselves out listening on those warmer days for the first gobbles of the season. The spring turkey season is a much anticipated event for many woodsmen in the Magnolia State. […]
February is generally considered an odd month for hunting. Deer season is basically over, except for the southeast sector of the state, but even there it’s only open until the middle of the month. Most of the buck chasers have long retreated to the house anyway. […]
While talking with Magnolia Crappie Club tournament director Hugh Krutz recently, he told me that crappie never really stop biting at any time during the year. […]
A proposed legislative bill that would increase gun hunting for deer by 22 days has the endorsement of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
House Bill 1282 passed out of the House wildlife committee on Thursday (Jan. 21), and is awaiting full consideration of the House, which has until Feb. 11 to act on bill or will die on the calendar. […]
The damp of the January morning (on Jan. 14) drove straight to the bone and clung like steel traps, much colder than the dry snow and sub-freezing temperatures I’d left behind near Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the day before.
But then, that’s the way it’s always been down South – a cold that courses your body; one that numbs the toes and finger tips, tortures any exposed surfaces and makes the sway of an errant limb feel like the lash of an angry whip. I know the pain of Southern cold ever so well: I grew up in Shreveport, La., just about 200 miles east of where I was creeping Indian style through the undergrowth of Claiborne County. […]
Wayne McAndrew stumbled across a piece of Amite County property available for lease in August 2009, and jumped at the chance to start his own club.
While the tract of land only encompassed 450 acre, McAndrew soon knew he had made the right decision.
“The first or second week of bow season, my buddy (Brad Balado) actually got a picture way on the other side of the lease of this buck,” the Louisiana hunter said. “Our jaws dropped when we saw the picture.” […]
Eddie Peterson had made the drive from Waveland to Mahanna Wildlife Management Area for a draw hunt, but hadn’t had much luck until they ran across another hunter who had killed a pretty nice deer.
“He didn’t tell us, ‘Go here,’ but he told us a general area to go to,” Peterson said.
So during the mid-day lull on Dec. 16, the hunter and his buddies eased in to find stand sites. […]
Will Foreman has hunted with his dad since he was 5 years old, and a tradition developed for the youngster during those days afield.
“We had a routine: He likes Vienna Sausages, so I’d bring a can of them and a (cold drink) to the stand,” father Terry Foreman explained. “I’d open that Vienna Sausage, and he’d eat three or four, and then he’d pour that juice out the window of the stand and say, ‘The deer are going to smell that and come out.’”
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All experienced deer hunters know there are two components to producing big bucks: age and food. Clubs will often have one without the other, but one Washington County hunting club has married the two to produce an impressive herd of deer. […]
Joey DeVeer picked up a bow three years ago, and he’s killed a number of does. But he’s been waiting for that special buck before putting his first bow buck on the ground.
That special buck showed up Tuesday (Jan. 12) while the Gonzales, La., hunter was on Bassmaster Elite Series pro Greg Hackney’s Washington County property.
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The Women’s Bassmaster Tour was eliminated Monday (Jan. 4)by BASS, which said the circuit just never gained traction. […]
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