Deer of the Year
Louisiana coed gets Mississippi trophy
Moments after aiming her .308 rifle at a big buck and pulling the trigger on Jan. 16, Darrion Tregre started having a bad feeling that evoked a flashback to 2014. […]
Month: February 2016
Ducks
Saturday is youth duck day
Duck season returns Saturday for one more day of hunting, and while shooting is limited to hunters aged 15 and under, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks encourages participation by licensed adults. […]
New Products
Excel OPTIFADE Camo Boats
Excel Boat Co. and W.L. GORE & Associates have partnered to offer Excel boats in GORE OPTIFADE Concealment Waterfowl Marsh Pattern. The pattern takes into account how ducks and geese see the world below them. […]
Fishing
Mustad Elite Series Jig Heads
Mustad has just launched an exciting new range of custom quality jig heads. Special top quality features include exclusive new hooks, customizable designs and high-impact chip resistant gloss, UV, or low-vis matte epoxy finishes. […]
Deer Hunting
Antler Boost’s Bean Bale
When the weather starts to get cold in the late-season, there is nothing that deer crave more than soybeans. That’s why the natural look and scent of Bean Bale is great for attracting those mature bucks. […]
Fishing
Recognizing and dealing with barotrauma
You might know barotrauma by a different name, like “hyperbuoyancy” or “overinflated swim bladder.”
You might have even seen pictures of deepwater marine fish with bug eyes or their stomachs pushed out their mouths. Maybe you have witnessed it yourself. […]
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2015-16 Deer of the Year
The recently closed deer season was weird. It began with warm temperatures and few deer being killed by those stalwart bowhunters braving the mosquitoes. […]
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Cover: February 2016
A season marked with warm weather and flooding still produced some beastly deer, including this record-book typical taken on Giles Island by Cheri Hillebrandt on Dec. 26. […]
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After the shooting stops — Post-season deer hunting work
As slowly as the opening of deer hunting approaches through the long, torturous summer, the season’s end comes so quickly hunters count the seconds of each passing January day in the stand. […]
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Ice-cold crappie — How to catch winter crappie at Okatibbee
Bruce Roberts trolled slowly with a crappie pole in each hand, searching for prespawn crappie while scanning his Humminbird down-imaging unit. […]
Catfish
Cool cats — Fishing tips for Tenn-Tom cats
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway — the Tenn-Tom for short — to complete a route connecting the Tennessee River to the Tombigbee River and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Rabbit
Squirrel and rabbit hunting, one more time
It is definitely not time to put away your shotgun or .22 rimfire rifle.
Hunters these days tend to wrap things up after deer season is over. It’s like they never look at the hunting season schedule to see that small-game hunting is still open until the end of February. […]