Catfish
Catfish do suspend, but why?
Biologists and anglers have theorized what causes catfish to suspend off the bottom at different times, with feeding, water quality, oxygen, and thermoclines being the most-common answers.
Month: November 2018
Deer Hunting
Club poll provides base of cost-saving ideas
Several hunting club presidents and/or board members surveyed about what they’ve done to help alleviate the financial burden their groups have faced volunteered some of their tactics to compensate for the rise in lease prices. […]
Inshore Fishing
Sheepshead ugly and, boy, what teeth …
Sheepshead got their name for a reason: their faces forevermore look like those of sheep, with teeth that can do harm to weak hooks and an ill-placed finger. […]
Deer Hunting
Be safe with a system
Hunter Safety System, Inc., was born out of a love for hunting and a desire to keep safe all hunters who use tree stands. Even so, it took a near-death experience to provide the impetus for the creation of the HSS harness. […]
Deer Hunting
Writer’s Thanksgiving morning buck
I love hunting cutovers that are between three and five years old, offer plenty of browse for deer and afford them security to feed openly during the day while never leaving the thick browse. Hunters who set up in elevated stands are able to spot deer — and pick out a good buck every once in a while — without ever being spotted. […]
Catfish
Reservoir cats also suspend but can be caught
While the Mississippi River is probably the best-known catfish producer in the state, many of Mississippi’s reservoirs also hold their share of decent blue catfish. […]
Field Notes
How to have redfish success with a chatterbait
Most Gulf Coast anglers have seen, either in person or in videos, redfish in water that’s so clear, it looks like it should have been delivered by the Kentwood man. […]
Ducks
Get quacking come Thanksgiving weekend
After what was, at best, a decent teal season in the latter part of September, Mississippi duck hunters are hungry for more. No, make that starving. […]
Deer of the Year
Little Lott’s big Sharkey County buck
The advantage of youth can extend way beyond the lack of fiscal responsibility, work deadlines, body pains and all that stuff us older folks deal with on a regular basis. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish Maynor Creek for November bass
On Maynor Creek, a 500-acre lake near Waynesboro, bass are generally holding shallow this month. The grass breaking up makes accessible sections of the lake that have been almost inaccessible to anglers earlier in the year; you can see baitfish concentrating in the grass and be able to catch the big bass that have been holding deep in the grass earlier in the year. […]
Deer Hunting
3rd CWD case suspected in Issaquena County
Mississippi appears to have its third deer with chronic wasting disease, the second from the Issaquena County CWD Management Zone, and the first doe to be discovered with the deadly protein-based illness.
Deer Hunting
Young hunter’s first buck recovery captured on video
Just about everyone nowadays has a video camera in their pocket and Shaun Briggs used his smartphone brilliantly to capture the moment his son Brayson realized he had killed his very first buck. […]