Freshwater Fishing
Using winter brush piles to find crappie
Jim and Barbara Reedy fish all over the country on the Crappie Masters tournament trail, where they encounter many different scenarios in which to find fish. […]
December 2015
Freshwater Fishing
Lake Lincoln Fish Attractors
Many fish attractor sites were created in 2011 and 2015, and most were marked with GPS and the coordinates are listed below. Be sure your GPS is set to read decimal degrees (shown below) and not degrees-minutes-seconds when attempting to locate these attractors. […]
Inshore Fishing
December trout fishing
I love December. I love Christmas music, Christmas trees, Christmas presents, Christmas cookies, the movies Elf and A Christmas Story, cool temps and the fact that trout are stacked up in deep bayous no more than a long cast wide. […]
As Big As they Grow
Winter fishing can be wonderful
The 2015 Central Mississippi drought has hit us all hard in one way or another. Everyone from farmers to fishermen has been affected by the deep drought. […]
Freshwater Fishing
A good day – How to measure fishing satisfaction
Have you ever pondered what makes a “good day” of fishing? Skipping the clichés, this is an important question for fishery managers because their job is to provide satisfying fishing opportunities for anglers. […]
Deer Hunting
Using scents, drags, wicks and bombs to attract deer
Can a white-tailed buck actually be fooled by the use of real or artificial doe scents? After considerable research has been conducted on the use of such deer scents — as well as tons of anecdotal reports from hunters in the field — much of the evidence offers up marginal results. […]
Content
Cover: December 2015
Get the basics to ambushing a trophy like this buck killed last season. […]
Deer Hunting
Life on the edge — How to up your odds of deer-hunting success
As the whitetail rut arrives, find an active edge, revisit scrape locations, rights-of-way as peak of deer season arrives with Christmas on the horizon. […]
Content
Close encounters — How to deer hunt with a longbow
A stick and a string — the only things standing between a traditional archery hunter and harvesting a whitetail.
It doesn’t get much simpler than that. […]
General
Honda EU2000i
If you’re looking for a generator that will power the basics and is easy to transport, the Honda EU2000i fits the bill perfectly. Rated at 2000 watts, the EU2000i is very quiet, only 47 pounds and has an Eco-Throttle feature that allows you to run up to 15 hours on 1 gallon of fuel. […]
Features
Conditional awareness — Learn when to duck hunt timber and when to hunt ag fields
Twas cold and shivering, all through that pit blind in the heart of Mississippi’s Delta. The low, early morning sky spit a bit of sleet, rain and even snow through the light fog. […]
Fishing