General
GLOCK Gen4 Models
GLOCK is introducing three new models to the Gen4 pistol family for 2012.[…]
Month: February 2012
Inshore Fishing
MirrOlure Lil John
Available in fourteen popular color patterns, the MirrOlure Lil John Twitchbait is the latest addition to MirrOlure’s popular soft plastic product line.[…]
Sidebars
Should we shoot Jakes?
In Louisiana it is legal to shoot Jakes, the one-year-old gobblers. Some states do not allow this and regulate the harvest with a minimum beard length.[…]
Sidebars
Veteran turkey hunter dies
Anyone who hunted turkeys in East and West Feliciana during the seventies and eighties is familiar with the name Ken Morgan. Kenny died of cancer on Nov. 20 of this past year.[…]
Contents
Break the Rules, Catch More Fish
If I were a betting man, I’d be willing to bet that when Capt.Charlie Thomason was a kid, he was always in trouble. I picture him as the mischievous type, cutting up in class, constantly talking and generally disruptive.[…]
Contents
Cover: February 2012
Bring some big Rat-L-Traps to the Causeway this month, and you won’t go home empty handed.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Tools of the trade
The Slimeslinger travels light, with all his tools in a single plastic tool box. Naturally enough, the man’s most important tools are his knives.[…]
Columns
Trail camera scouting
This is my inaugural column in Mississippi Sportsman based around the general topic of trail-camera scouting. Each month I will share advice, tips, tactics, strategies and techniques regarding the use of digital scouting cameras that have proven useful to me over time in the successful pursuit of whitetail deer on my farm in west-central Mississippi.[…]
General
Hit the Jackpot
My hunter was Brady Perise, 11. Brady had been drawn for the youth turkey hunt on Tunica Hills Wildlife Management Area. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries offers youth lottery hunts on a number of its public WMAs across the state each year. These hunts usually open the week before the regular season and give the kids an opportunity to make a hunt before the adults hit the woods.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Why not electric?
Ricky Richoux must get asked that question a lot. His answer comes too quickly when a kibitzer pops the query.[…]
Inshore Fishing
Quality care
Ricky Richoux has strong opinions about the right way to handle fish to get a quality product for the table.[…]
Contents
Shallow Rig Slaughter
The whoops, roars and racket on Doc’s balcony for the post-Endymion party rattled the very tray as I carried the bowl of fresh-caught sheepshead ceviche to the serving table from the kitchen.[…]
Other Hunting
Rabbit sign leads to more productive hunts
Hunters who have access to enough land for rabbit hunting could just let their dogs go and see what they jump, or they could do like Smith and focus on areas that show promising sign.[…]
Other Hunting
Evading coyotes harder than evading beagles
While walking through the woods listening to Brent Smith’s beagles running rabbits, I wondered if they ever actually caught one before a hunter got a shot on it.[…]
Hunting
Rabbit Wrap-Up
Brent Smith’s head was on a swivel as he knelt on the forest floor in a Washington Parish pine plantation. Ice Man, Law Man, Boss Man, Hawk, Sugar and Ruby had just recently passed on a line where Smith now took a knee.[…]
Fishing
Lady Luck
It is easier to predict a winning roulette number than it is to guess who’s going to win a Bassmaster Classic. Take Skeet Reese for example. Nobody predicted this California kid going to the Red River and winning in 2009.
However, fishing being what it is, all the variables and proverbial stars aligned for Reese three years ago as he found enough Red River bass to bring home the title of Classic Champion.
Unfortunately for Reese, he won’t be able to defend his Red River championship because for the first time in 10 years, he didn’t qualify for the Classic.[…]