Outdoors Feature: Falling, finally: Fewer hours of daylight lead to cooler water, hotter bass
With daylight hours growing shorter and the big waters beginning to cool, schooling shad are drawing frenzied bass and opportunities for fast action to the surface.
Outdoors feature: Hide and hair: Many options to make the most of deer harvests
Creativity and the option to preserve and use more parts of a deer than the meat and head alone bring the outdoors lifestyle into the everyday in ways that also bring the woods into closer contact with those who enjoy them most.
Sports column: Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame announces Class of 2025
The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Tuesday announced its 2025 induction class, and it is star-studded with championship coaches and athletes from football, baseball, basketball and golf.
Outdoors column: Using more than enough gun has its effect
The Boy took his time settling the crosshairs on what was about to be his first deer of the season.
Outdoors Column: Wingshooting lessons require experience to inform the message
It had been a cool morning for early fall, and daylight came wrapped in thick fog. Doves began flying before sunrise and the action continued nearly through noon.
Outdoors Feature: Safe and sound: Firearm, treestand safety paramount in the woods
The blaze orange and hunter education requirements that have gradually become an accepted part of the landscape for deer hunters in Mississippi were inspired by scores of tragic accidental shootings over the years. As new generations of hunters enter the field, generations removed from first-hand memory of safety’s bad old days, stressing the reasons for orange and education becomes more important.
Outdoors column: Running with the little dogs always preferred
The Old Man kept the small variety of beagles, presuming it’s all beagles that they were.
Outdoors Feature: Falling up: Autumn crappie a season well worth searching
The first warm days of spring may be the only time many fishing enthusiasts hit the water with crappie in mind, which is a shame because the fall can be just as productive for those seeking the slabs, and can be even more fun.
Outdoors Column: Human instinct may be repressed, but never replaced
A great amount of human instinct expresses itself every day in our lives.
Outdoors column: Working on the water original open office plan
The men pulled into the landing’s parking lot in a big, sweeping half circle, piled out of the truck and stepped quickly to their pre-launch tasks.
Sports column: Is Ole Miss this good? Are Mississippi State, Southern Miss this bad?
After 13 hours of watching college football last Saturday – and enduring seemingly 21,989 TV timeouts – this bleary-eyed correspondent is left with more questions than answers.
Office Hours: Are we having fun yet?
I owe you an apology. Last week in this space, I wrote that the Bulldogs, fresh off a disheartening loss to Arizona State in Tempe,
Outdoors Feature: Predator pursuit: Duke family legacy continues mission
Selling traps and buying fur have been a mission for Bill Duke’s family since the 1930s. Their operation on Brame Avenue continues right here today. As they approach a hundred years in business, the opportunity to help wild turkey populations by managing nest predator populations has come to the forefront of the job.
Outdoor Column: Echoes still ringing through the hallways of time
We walked into the wind as we crossed atop a small hill, passing an old house place someone had once worked hard to make, likely scraped and saved to keep, been proud of and called home. Nature had reclaimed most of it and no walls remained by then, though the foundation was still there. Like some memories, old foundations can be a long time fading.
Outdoors Column: Boats laid by for winter recall summers long gone
The lines had been taken up from the big waters, returned to the foam boxes that held their hooks in order row by row for a season yet to come.
Outdoors Column: Unique occasion lives forever in deepest memory
They sat around the perimeter of the pontoon boat and fished from lawn chairs, laughing at old stories, at old memories and at themselves.
Outdoors Feature: Deep and wide: Bass seek cool, dark waters everywhere
When summer’s temperatures go high, largemouth bass go low. Whether you’re working the wide, open waters of Tennessee River impoundments or fishing local lakes and ponds, it’s a safe bet the big bass will be as deep as they can get throughout the majority of the day.
She was Caitlin Clark 74 years ago. Now, Dot Burrow is a Hall of Famer
In Mississippi, Dot Ford Burrow was Caitlin Clark a half century before Caitlin Clark was born, scoring 50 points per game back in 1950 for tiny Smithville High School in Monroe County.
County to start paying SPD for animal control assistance
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