Inshore Fishing
The Egret Wedgetail Eel
When Cowboy Outdoors decided to make a big, wedge-tailed soft-plastic artificial lure strictly a saltwater bait, speckled trout fishermen along the country’s coast benefitted big time. […]
February 2016
Fishing
Understanding Navspeak
Looking through an owner’s manual for a new GPS navigation unit, I was surprised at how much the manual assumed I already knew. Some of the terminology was so poorly explained I don’t know how a newcomer to GPS navigation would figure it all out. […]
Deer Hunting
Thoughts from the deer stand
As I collected my thoughts for this month’s installment of Happy Trails, the deer season had transitioned into its final phase. […]
Bass Fishing
Big bass bite in February at Ross Barnett
February’s the best month to fish Ross Barnett Reservoir just outside Jackson because it warms up quickly. Bass always pull into shallow water there in February to prepare for the spawn. […]
Freshwater Fishing
10 Tenn-Tom locks and dams
The Tenn-Tom waterway is composed of 10 locks, which are stretch from north to south along the waterway; […]
Freshwater Fishing
B’n’M Poles enters catfish pole market
About three years ago, West Point’s B’n’M Poles, made an expansion of their nearly exclusive crappie and panfish lines to include catfish rods. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 200 years in the making
The first known recommendation to build a water transportation route connecting the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers was made by a French explorer, the Marquis de Montcalm, to Louis XV of France between 1760 and 1770. […]
Sheepshead
Winter sheepshead
“How’s the snapper?” I asked.
“It’s OK, but it could use some garlic,” Uncle Topper replied. […]
As Big As they Grow
Pre-spawn fishing strategies
Believe it or not, we’re quickly leaving winter fishing patterns and looking at those annual pre-spawn crappie catching patterns.
Yes, it has been a weird winter. We had the warmest December on record for Mississippi. I swear the pear trees around my house were budding on Christmas Day. […]
Fishing
Recognizing and dealing with barotrauma
You might know barotrauma by a different name, like “hyperbuoyancy” or “overinflated swim bladder.”
You might have even seen pictures of deepwater marine fish with bug eyes or their stomachs pushed out their mouths. Maybe you have witnessed it yourself. […]
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2015-16 Deer of the Year
The recently closed deer season was weird. It began with warm temperatures and few deer being killed by those stalwart bowhunters braving the mosquitoes. […]
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Cover: February 2016
A season marked with warm weather and flooding still produced some beastly deer, including this record-book typical taken on Giles Island by Cheri Hillebrandt on Dec. 26. […]