Lure Review
Hildebrandt Drum Roller
Want a unique and improved spinnerbait on your side when you go redfish fishing for pleasure or for money? […]
April 2015
Fishing
Almost live TV
One of the most-difficult aspects of teaching fishermen and boaters to interpret conventional sonar screens has been getting them to understand how a screen picture is made. […]
Deer Hunting
Unravelling a blood trail
One recent cold, damp January morning, as I sat in my ground blind watching and hoping for a mature late-season buck, my cell phone in the pocket of my coat vibrated. […]
Bass Fishing
Load the boat with bass this month at Pickwick
You can load the boat at Pickwick Lake this month with bass, if you’re not too choosy about what type of bass you want to catch — largemouths, smallmouths and spots. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Long poles vs. short poles
On the surface, choosing a long or short jigging pole for crappie might seem like a no-brainer issue.
But is it? […]
Crappie/Bream
In most situations, go with bright jigs
Jerry Gross of Meatgetter Jigs of Rison, Ark., is one crappie fishing fool — and, I mean that in a good way. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Top chinquapin baits
Aggressive and gluttonous as any schooling fish, chinquapin are hardly picky. Nevertheless, catering to their tastes and preferences will earn you more love. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Best tactics for bedding chinquapin
When chinquapin move in shallow to spawn, the ensuing game of tempting and taunting them to bite can become much like bed fishing for largemouth bass. […]
Inshore Fishing
Ground mullet, flounder should be on the menu
Biloxi’s Rob Thomas is a near-shore fanatic who will wade fish but usually stays in his 18-foot skiff or his 12-foot kayak. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Nighttime fishing for chinquapin
Panfish aficionado Glynn “Catch” Cormier reminds anglers not to overlook the species’ after-hours potential. […]
Inshore Fishing
April puts cobia on the bars
Capt. Robert Earl McDaniel was doing the cobia two-step, a ritual similar to that of a rain dance, on the back deck of his boat that was anchored in 8 feet of water about 10 miles south of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. […]
Sidebars
Meek: Keep your box “fine tuned”
Paul Meek has made thousands of turkey calls in his life, including about every style there is to try. It’s what he does for a living.
Even with that experience, he knows every call has to be fined tuned. […]