May 2020

Digital night vision, thermal optics give hunters a big edge when it’s time to add hunting by moonlight to your repetoire. He’s what you need to know.

Jiggin’ Pole’s inventor had plenty to say about crappie fishing, and his son J.B. “Blaine” Salter is keeping the religion alive.

After the spawn, when Mississippi’s slab crappie move out to deep water, trolling crankbaits might be the best way to trick them into biting.

Catfish are popular among Mississippi anglers. The state is full of channels, blues and flatheads. Here’s the 411 on how to recognize and catch them.

Topwater lures bring out the best in bass fishermen and the loudest in strikes from big fish. Here’s how to decide which of the dozens on the market to use.

One of the items Joshua Chauvin uses most in the field happens to be one of the cheapest and simplest devices out there: the ball bungee.

Whether placed by a fisheries or water management agency or by an angler, complex woody structure attracts bass. Here’s the findings.

Hunters may prepare this recipe with a turkey from this year, but should keep in mind it works well with a breast or some wings and legs from the freezer.

Some great and deadly techniques for catching bass this month around bream spawning areas at Bogue Homa for bass fishermen.

The Matrix X-Shad is the exact mold of the Matrix Shad, except it gives anglers the opportunity to rig it weedless or on an open-faced jighead.

Bass are the nation’s No. 1 gamefish because of their existence in such a wide variety of water types. They also eat just about anything.

Many anglers are hoping we will have reduced the upward curve of increased Covid 19 cases and Mississippians can again return to the water in May.

According to the latest statistics, Mississippi’s number of chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer has reached 54, with 27 confirmed cases.

A giant tuna, officially caught by Mike “Mikey” McElroy III of Hattiesburg, will soon be certified as the Mississippi state record.

Jimmy Ray Barnes, a squirrel-hunting enthusiast from Pascagoula, will be hunting during Mississippi’s 2020 spring squirrel season between May 15 and June 1.

Mississippi’s 2020 legislative session was suspended amid concerns over the spread of Covid 19, 12 bills involving hunting and fishing are still in play.

A ban on boating and fishing on state-managed lakes caught thousands of boaters, fishermen and even lake managers by surprise.