Sidebars
Friction call conditioning and maintenance
All friction calls — box, trough, pot or scratch box — will need a little TLC from time to time. […]
Month: April 2018
Bass Fishing
Scouting new water: It’s for the birds
When Brock Mosley hits new water for the first time, he scouts … for birds. […]
Crappie/Bream
The pros and cons of current
Long is the debate over exactly how current, whether it be wind or water generated, has on crappie fishing. […]
Crappie/Bream
Rodholders key to stalking crappie
Driftmaster Rodholders, a division of Black River Tools, is the manufacturer of one of the most innovative rod holders designed specifically for spider-rigging for crappie. […]
Sidebars
Wait them out: Great hunting is on the way
Once the hens start to lay, and as they continue to incubate those eggs a little more, it opens things up for hunters. […]
Inshore Fishing
Match the hatch
Guides Lee Parsons and Mark Dickson emphasize choosing lures that are the same body shape, size and color of the dominant forage in an area. Several of the Catch 2000 lures, plus the 52M and MR, TT and MirrOmullet, have the general body shape as a mullet, and all topwater MirrOlures have mullet shapes. […]
Crappie/Bream
Crappie yet to spawn on Barnett Reservoir
It could happen today, but then, again, it might be tomorrow. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish for Bogue Homa post-spawn bass in April
April is a post-spawn bass month at Bogue Homa. The females will be coming off the bed, and they’ll want to feed up to help recover from the spawn. But they will still will be holding fairly close to the spawning area in shallow water. […]
Columns
How do young crappie survive the winter
Good crappie fishing often depends on a strong year-class: an abundance of fish produced in a given year. When those fish grow to a size of interest to anglers — what biologists call “recruit to the fishery” — the result is fast action, filled limits and full coolers. Fast growth and limited harvest often equates to super slabs for the next several years. […]
Deer Hunting
Mississippi officials get good news on CWD tests in south Mississippi
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks continues to find good news related to chronic wasting disease in an area of concern in south Mississippi. Seventy deer tested during the 2017-18 hunting season were all found to be negative for CWD, a disease that is deadly in several species of cervids including white-tailed deer. […]
Content
Cover: April 2018
Turkey season is in full swing as April arrives, and Mississippi hunters can pick up plenty of tips on tricking gobblers, outwitting bossy hens and making old calls sound like new. […]
Features
Henned again? There’s hope!
Try these four tricks when you’re having trouble getting a gobbler to pay attention to you and not his live girlfriends. […]