April 2019 - Mississippi Sportsman

Oh boy: Bream! Return to your fishing roots

April 30, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

May begins serious fishing for bluegill and other sunfish around Mississippi. […]

A state-of-the-art public shooting range is opening on the Charles Ray Nix WMA in north Mississippi.

MDWFP opens new range near Sardis

April 25, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks opened its latest shooting range; the 300-acre McIvor Shooting Facility at the Charles Ray Nix Wildlife Management Area near Sardis. […]

CWD count now 19; zones grow closer

April 25, 2019 Bobby Cleveland

The two latest confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease in Mississippi’s free-ranging deer herd brings the total to 19, causing the North CWD Management Zone to expand south. […]

Lone gobblers whose hens are nesting are likely to be doing a lot of traveling, especially late in the morning and early in the afternoon, when they can be fooled and killed.

Be patient, stay late for late-season turkeys

April 25, 2019 Craig Holt

Turkey hunters find at the end of turkey season that most “easy” turkeys have been killed, and the remaining ones are more wary and won’t come to calls. […]

The many benefits of using artificial shrimp

April 22, 2019 David A. Brown

The artificial version of this popular coastal crustacean, shrimp, offers a wider array of performance than the real deal. […]

LiveTarget Skip Shad

April 22, 2019 Don Shoopman

The Skip Shad is the latest in ultra-natural, lifelike products from LiveTarget Lures. […]

The slumbering long-beard sits in a logging road with his head tucked away underneath his wing.

A sleeper at Canemount WMA

April 18, 2019 Andy Douglas

Lincoln County hunter Ricky Case harvested a sleeping gobbler on Canemount WMA. While cleaning the turkey, he discovered two shotgun pellet wounds in its breast area. […]

Fishing for sac-a-lait, Lloyd Brandt ended up catching this choupique.

The bowfin (Amia calva), whose more common name is mudfish, is a close relative of the gar. Its stout body and long dorsal fin, which covers almost three-quarters the length of its body, give the fish a snaky or eel-like appearance. […]

Dont overlook bright colors in overcast, clear water conditions. This 27 ½-inch fish fell for a Double Bubble DD.

Three twitch baits that lure uncommitted trout

April 17, 2019 Chris Bush

Below the surface twitch baits provide the perfect hybrid capability for those finicky spring topwater trout. […]

Flatten the turkey breast with a mallet to render it thin enough to roll it into a ball.

Turkey Cordon Bleu (almost)

April 15, 2019 Jerry Dilsaver

Put that wild gobbler’s breast to work in a big, delicious way with this turkey recipe. […]

Before the sun gets up and the fog leaves the water, Paul Elias will be fishing a buzzbait and the Baby 1-Minus on the spawning flats at Bay Springs Lake, since I can’t see the beds or the bass at that time of day.

Buzzing, cranking, pitching to April bass at Bay Springs

April 12, 2019 Paul Elias

The bass will be very shallow at 9-mile long Bay Springs Lake in April and now is the perfect time to catch them. […]

Every slab crappie was small once. Effects of environmental conditions on growth and survival of young fish determines future fishing.

Effects of turbidity on young crappie

April 12, 2019 Hal Schramm

Understanding the effects of environmental conditions on young crappie is especially important because abundance of crappie year-classes varies widely over time. […]

Month: April 2019