Featured
Begin applying for WMA draw hunts Monday
Even though the first deer hunting opportunities don’t start until Oct. 1, the time to start the process for drawing for the best public land opportunities is August. […]
Month: July 2015
Deer Hunting
Rez draw hunt process begins Friday
Applications will be accepted beginning Friday (July 31) for the third year of archery deer hunts on two areas of the Barnett Reservoir project, and hunters have more to draw for, according to the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District. […]
Featured
29th Extravaganza opens Friday
OK, so it’s like an oven outside, and has been for weeks, seemingly with it set on “high” during the day and “hold warm” at night. On the news, they talk about record days of 95-plus and 100-plus, and kick around heat indexes of 110 and up. […]
Fishing
Trout trailers
Success, as usual in the artificial lure manufacturing business — or anything else, for that matter — begats success. […]
Recipes
Ronnie’s Smothered Crabs
Ronnie Sampey shows you how he cooks crabs. This tasty Smothered Crabs dish is wonderful, but messy to eat. […]
Crappie/Bream
Tips to keep bream fishing hot all summer
Freddie McMullen is a bream-catching expert, who honed his skills on Louisiana’s Black Bayou Lake. Here are his tips for filling the ice chest every time you hit the water. […]
Fishing
Simrad’s new Halo radar solves problems
Some things about radar that used to be considered common knowledge are no longer valid — and some, of course, never were. […]
Field Notes
7 steps to clean trout
Nobody likes cleaning the day’s catch. But you’ll burn through these 7 steps to clean speckled trout and get these fish ready for the freezer or dinner. […]
Featured
Rez jugging, trotline regs unified
Regulation changes made months apart by Barnett Reservoir officials and last week by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks have unified the law regarding trotlining and jugging in the Pelahatchie Bay area of the 33,000-acre lake near Jackson. […]
Featured
Two saltwater records certified
Though 99 percent of fishermen, even those die-hards who prowl the coastal waters off Mississippi, couldn’t identify either of the two fish, the Commission on Marine Resources gave them recognition we can all understand — state records. […]
Field Notes
How to avoid buying ice
Crappie killer Tim Bye has a solution that allows him to save the cost of loose ice without having to deal with those danged plastic jugs. […]
Field Notes
Know how to pick the right topwater
Using topwater lures to catch fish is a favorite technique of many fishermen. The lure wobbles across the surface, imitating a thrashing, wounded baitfish. […]