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30th Wildlife Extravaganza starts Friday
After a few years of growing pains in the mid 80s, the Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza became firmly entrenched as the state’s traditional beginning of the hunting season. […]
Month: August 2016
Deer Hunting
Barnett Reservoir deer hunt process starts Friday
The application process for archery draw hunts for deer on parts of Barnett Reservoir will begin Friday, the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District announced. […]
Deer Hunting
Preseason wildlife plot prep
It’s a given that August is hot, humid and nasty. Who in the world is thinking now about fall hunting?
Well, any deer hunter worth his trail camera, grunt call, bow and arrows or a favorite deer rifle is already dreaming about sitting over a well-groomed food plot in a well-positioned tree stand or shooting house. […]
Bass Fishing
Shimano Zodias bass rods
Shimano has expanded its Zodias (ZDS) bass rod line-up with three new models that are constructed for specific lure and situation use and feature Shimano’s unique CI4+ reel seat. The 7-foot ZDS 170M-G and 7-foot-6 inch ZDS 176M-G crankbait rods have longer reargrips for long-casting leverage, and include glass composite Hi-Power X blanks to give the rods the needed softer action when using crankbaits. […]
Bass Fishing
Cool runnings — Fishing tips for catching bass in streams and creeks
Jack Davis cast a spinnerbait in the bend of a creek, started his retrieve and promptly hooked up with a fish.
A ferocious spotted bass almost tore the rod from his hands. Davis held on, wearing the fish down, and landed and admired it before casting out again. […]
Catfish
Catfish caliphate — Tips for catfishing on the Pascagoula River
The Pascagoula is far from the longest river in Mississippi, running only 80 miles from the convergence of the Chickasawhay and Leaf rivers to where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico without great fanfare. […]
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Cover: August 2016
The season is weeks away, so it’s time to get everything in order. And we have all the information and tips you’ll need to start the fall with a bang. […]
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Frayed — How to catch hard-fighting gar
I heard the fish, but didn’t see it. My guide recognized the sound immediately.
“That’s a gar gulping air: Look for the bubbles or the rings of water,” said Mark Beason, who was standing on the bow of the boat and quickly reeling in his line. “That was close by.” […]
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Earning your stripes — Best bets for Ross Barnett stripers
If you were to go out looking for someone to sit down and talk with about striper fishing on Barnett Reservoir, you’d have a hard time. Most of those who catch them, typically by accident, hate them or at the least don’t care for them. Those who do fish for them regularly run when they see you coming. […]
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The rub about deer: Understanding rubs
The language of whitetail rubs and scrapes is diverse and, at times, complex — especially when bucks ravage the timber with cluster rubs. […]
Bass Fishing
Pick it apart — How to fish laydowns
Wood — once a tree, felled by man or nature, it’s now a bass fortress and a structure to be negotiated, encroached upon, invaded by those seeking a face-to-face with said fish. […]
Freshwater Fishing
The sunfish clan
I’ve provided information about the biology of bluegill and redear sunfish, Mississippi’s two most-popular sunfish, in the two previous columns. […]