August 2010 - Mississippi Sportsman

2010-11 WMA Forecast

August 31, 2010 Andy Crawford

Hunters hitting Mississippi’s system of wildlife management areas will, for the first time, be able to use crossbows this year, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has announced. […]

Cover: September 2010

August 31, 2010 Mississippi Sportsman

Don’t even think about stepping foot on public land this year without reading our annual WMA Forecast. […]

In September, Barnett starts to heat up

August 31, 2010 Paul Elias

Two different patterns always produce bass for me during September on Ross Barnett. The early September pattern is a spotted bass pattern up the river. This pattern won’t catch really big bass, but you will catch numbers of hard-fighting fish. I believe the spotted bass fights about twice as hard as a big largemouth. […]

U.N. Small Arms Treaty a real threat to U.S. gun owners

August 31, 2010 Gordon Hutchinson

Several times a week, I receive internet warnings that scream the present administration plans to circumvent the Second Amendment to the Constitution. […]

Get your crankbaits ready for fall

August 31, 2010 Paul Johnson

Can you believe it? It’s time to find your bird shot shells from last September and beg your way onto a dove field somewhere. It’s tradition around here, you know. Labor Day and dove hunting announce to practically every Mississippi outdoorsman that huntin’ season is here. […]

Fish finders lower learning curve to speed bump

August 31, 2010 Allan Tarvid

Wandering the aisles at the annual ICAST show last month looking at next year’s fishing equipment, I realized that the convention is a window into the future in more ways than one. I’d heard about the new fish finders Lowrance was going to introduce, but their significance didn’t really hit me until I saw them running in the company’s booth. […]

Doves get everything rolling

August 31, 2010 John J. Woods

Dove season in Mississippi can bring together an eclectic group of folks. But it is the coming together of friends, family, kids, work associates, miscellaneous acquaintances and other unknowns that makes dove hunting in the Magnolia State so special. Mississippi dove hunting is social first, then hunting second. […]