Features from July 2020
- Consider the .25-06, a century old cartridge, if you’re getting ready to look for your next deer rifle. It might just be the best purchase you ever make.
- Guides, pros share their tactics for catching crappie when the temperature skyrockets and the fish change their haunts and habits.
- Reaching the northeastern stretches of the Biloxi Marsh is less than 12 miles from Pass Christian. Here’s how to catch limits without burning a lot of fuel.
- Try holding off your bass-fishing trips until after dark when summer really takes hold in Mississippi. You’ll be pleasantly surprised to find big fish.
Columns - July 2020
- Stocking can help crappie populations with inconsistent year-class survival. A state agency restores a struggling fishery, answers a few questions.
- Big speckled trout have made a pretty good appearance in the waters around Venice the past three years. Will it continue and/or get better?
- A unique and affordable way to begin archery is the Genesis bow. This bow is unique in that it will fit all members of most families without any adjustment.
- It’s summer and Mahi are here. Try this ceviché recipe early on, because you’ll want to use it again — probably several times.
- Red snapper are large snappers that are most often found near reef habitats, livebottom habitats, platforms, shipwrecks and artificial reefs.
- July is always a hot month, and Bogue Homa Lake is relatively shallow, but the lake provides a lot of cover for bass. Here are three ways to catch them.
- Ross Wager’s Calcutta Jigs are turning the heads of bass and bass anglers near and far. Synthetic hair gives the bladed bait a different action.
- One of the most-versatile and effective ways to catch speckled trout is with a soft plastic and jighead pairing. You can target fish both shallow and deep.
Outdoor Updates - July 2020
- Speckled trout are ravenous this month off Bay St. Louis, and you can tag-team them all day with topwaters and soft-plastic swimbaits.
- Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo for the year 2020 has been cancelled for first time in 72 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Mississippi’s 2020-21 deer season will see some big changes in areas impacted by chronic wasting disease, including three major ones.
- A 37-pound, 1.44-ounce African pompano is the largest of four Mississippi all-tackle saltwater records set this year by Harley Havard of Lucedale.
- Grab the sunscreen and let’s hit some July fishing hot spots. These possibilities top the list of can’t-miss fishing holes this month.
- As of June 10, the first Wildlife and Outdoor Expo was still scheduled to begin on July 31, but in reality, it faces long odds due to pandemic restrictions.
- Capt. Robert Earl McDaniel loves chasing the big “sow” red snapper, and offers them a big meal to get their interest this month.
- A month-long investigation resulted in charges being filed against five Warren County teenagers involving killing alligators in Issaquena County.