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Hunter kills white trophy gobbler
Bo Brown had little choice, the way he had it figured, but to lift up his shotgun, aim and fire at the gobbler.
Hills Region
Bass Fishing
Pickwick Lake’s bass bonanza
Catching 30 to 50 bass per day is what you can expect in November on Pickwick Lake, which corners Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee and should be one of the hottest lakes in all those states this month. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish Pickwick Lake for 30 May bass per day
Pickwick bass fishing can’t get any better than in May. From only two or three schools of bass, you may catch 30 or more bass per day. If rising water happens, the bass will be in this newly inundated water in the grass, bushes and trees. About the middle of May, the bass will be pulling out of the creeks and staging at their mouths or in the cuts and ditches in the flats leading to the river channel. At the end of May, I’ll look for bass out on the main river channel. […]
Crappie/Bream
One of Mississippi’s top lakes to be drained
Old Natchez Trace Lake — a.k.a. Trace Lake — at Trace State Park near Pontotoc will soon be drained and closed to the public during its renovation, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks. […]
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Hammer Rods, from Mississippi
A Mississippi company based in Guntown is specializing in bass fishing rods that are made one at a time with a touch only a mother could give. […]
Bass Fishing
Catch a bunch of bass at Pickwick Lake
In February at Pickwick Lake, the bass family will be having a reunion and ganging up.
In warm weather with active bass biting the Alabama Rig, you might have a 50-fish catch. […]
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Hillside NWR accepting turkey applications
Applications for the spring turkey hunt at Hillside National Wildlife Refuge are now being accepted, according to the Teddy Roosevelt National Refuge Complex. […]
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‘Garilla’ — Sardis spillway yields world record
Last Sept. 10, Don Henson of Southaven went fishing at the Sardis Lake spillway for a catfish dinner, but instead ended up taking a bite out of a couple of record books. […]
Deer Hunting
Rutting facts you don’t want to hear
Have you ever heard this statement around deer camp in October: “We need to get some cold weather to get the rut going?”
Of course you have. You might have even been the one who said it. […]
Deer Hunting
Doe harvest increases quality of herd
In the early years of quality deer management, changing attitudes from only harvesting bucks to acceptance that doe harvests were mandatory to keep ratios in balance was a hard first step. […]
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Before the chase — Pre-rut deer-hunting tactics
The hunting terrain across northern Mississippi is some of the most varied in the state, giving hunters opportunities to take deer from the lower reaches of the Appalachians to the deep rich Delta soils along the Mississippi River. […]
Bass Fishing
Pickwick bassing
September is a transition month for bass, with some holding in deep water and others moving up into the grass. […]