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Jessica’s Sauce Piquant
Justin Head’s family makes sauce piquants using game, but his wife Jessica wanted a version for fish. She did some research on basic sauce piquant recipes and adapted them to her taste. […]
Month: May 2015
Catfish
Grabbling season open
Mississippi’s noodling season — a.k.a. hand-grabbing or grabbling season — opened statewide Friday (May 1) and will continue through July 15. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Fish need water
As I write this in late March, the Mississippi River is at flood stage, 12 feet above normal stage for this date, and rising. Hopefully this will not be a repeat of 2011, when the river reached a record high stage at Vicksburg and threatened to top or blow out levees. […]
Fishing
Daiwa’s Zillion reels
Daiwa’s hugely popular Zillion TWS reels just got faster with the introduction of the Xtra Hyper Speed XXS reels with a blazing 9.1:1 retrieve speed. The new Zillion Baitcasting reels offer some very advanced features, including their revolutionary T-Wing System (TWS) and Free Floating spool system, which together give you an even farther cast. […]
Hunting
iHunt Speaker and App Combo
Extreme Dimension’s iHunt Speaker has been paired with the iHunt by Ruger app to turn your smartphone into a complete game call system. This combo allows hunters to use a smartphone as the controller for more than 600 sounds from deer, coyote, turkeys, ducks and 42 other species. […]
Hunting
Duck Commander and Buck Commander cases
Americase, Inc. recently announced the completion of their newest case lines for Buck Commander and Duck Commander. The cases are not only stylish, but built extremely tough to handle the rigors of travel, as well as the demands of the outdoors. […]
Hunting
The Gator Country
Ruger and TALO Distributors combined recently to produce a limited edition of the .22LR rifle with an extremely detailed and textured reptile design. The Gator Country 10/22 features a beautifully carved Gator head cut into the walnut stock of an 18 ½-inch barrel, with a gold bead front sight on the Alloy Steel semi-auto. […]
Bass Fishing
Neshoba County beasts — How to catch trophy bass at this MDWFP lake
In any serious discussion about big bass locations in Mississippi, there’s one body of water that’s always in the Top 10 but rarely at the top of the list. […]
Content
Cover: May 2015
It’s time for bream to bed up, so learn everything needed to catch stringers of the tasty panfish every time you hit the water. […]
Content
Naturalists — Expert tips for using natural fishing bait
As a child growing up in Southeast Missouri, 15 miles from the original “Throwed Rolls” at Lambert’s Cafe in Sikeston, I’d ride my bike five miles to the Maple Slough Creek to fish. […]
Bass Fishing
Spawn sensation — How to catch bass during the shad spawn
It might sound rude, intrusive, bad form, but in lakes, ponds and rivers throughout the state it’s apparently just fine to interrupt the intimate moments of others. […]
Content
Confessions of a bream killer — Expert bream-fishing tips
Sometimes you can hardly keep bream out of your boat, but when the bite gets tough you have to know how to adjust. Here are some tips from a man who has perfected the art of catching these tasty panfish. […]