Steven Albright of Starkville, Mississippi spent the morning recently enjoying a cool cloudy day teaching his cute daughters how to catch a catfish on the Tennesse Tombigbee. He said that they played hard and fished hard. Here are some cute pictures he took of his daughters in our great wild Mississippi outdoors! Making precious memories!
Steven said that this catfish bit off more than it could chew!
My congratulation to these two new Fishermans!
My Facebook friend, Kareen Beinhauer who just shot Hog #182 and 12th for the year so far. Here is her story in her own words from the Hog Queen herself of Alpine, Texas!
I'm back in from sitting out and I figured I wouldn’t see anything. The usual javelinas came in but all of a sudden they ran off. A few seconds later a boar wandered in so I slowly put my earplugs in and took my safety off. I thought about taking a lung shot but he offered me a perfect headshot which I took and he went down. 182 total, 12th for the year which I didn't think I would even get to, Yay!
I went to drag that hog off and took my measuring tape with me because on a hog hunting page somebody posted a picture of a chart. You measure the hog right behind the front legs and run your tape around the hog. The measurement will tell you how much they weigh within ten pounds. Before I measured I guessed he weighed about 250 and sure enough, he measured 45 inches which is 250. What a handy thing to have and now I will know how much they weigh without Roy having to bring the backhoe over.
Stephanie and Kenric Ladner of Hancock County, Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, young son is holding an apple snail and said in the 39 years they had never found a snail this big in the freshwater of the Jourdan River and found two of them.
One had eggs recently. Apple snails are opportunistic feeders that consume a variety of aquatic vegetation, fruits, and vegetable, algae, remains of a decaying organism, and other snail eggs. Because of damage to crops, the channeled apple snails are listed as one of the world's worst invaders.
There are millions of them in the Louisiana swamps and in south Florida. Kill everyone you can and the only way to do that is to scrap the eggs into water and they will die. This is another non-native that should be reported and/or destroyed.
My congratulations to Seth on a job well done during our MS dove season and I'm sure his great grandfather would be so proud.
My very first 8-point buck taken on New Year's Eve '89 at Brown's Point Hunting and Fishing Club on Kings Point Island, located north of Vicksburg, MS. It weighed 190lbs. I have it mounted and hanging on my wall. A very proud deer hunter in our wild and wonderful Mississippi outdoors!
This is the very first alligator hunt at the famous Christmas Place Plantation Hunting Club on the edge of the MS Delta where I hunt every year. Berney Howell organized it and they caught two. My hunting buddy Rex Howell of Deer Camp Blog sent me these two pictures of the alligators. The camp has a 40-acre lake on 2,500 acres of hunting land. My congratulations to all the guys at the camp on a successful hunt in our great wild and wonderful Mississippi outdoors.
Berney Howell is on far-right and I don't know the other hunters.
It was a great opening morning in north Mississippi for Tim and Cameron Adams bagging Canadian Geese with hunting for migratory game birds closing on September 30th. The daily bag limit is 5. It will open back up November 13-29; December 4-6; December 9-January 31st. My congratulations to both Tim and Cameron in our great wild and wonderful Mississippi outdoors! Way to go guys!
Mississippi's alligator season opened Friday and it didn't take long for one group of hunters to get tangled up with a gator on the Ross Barnett Reservoir.
"He was 300 yards away and when the light hit him, he went down," said Ashley Harris of Canton. "All we saw was eyes for about three seconds. That's the only way we knew he was there."
Ashley and his crew drove their boats to where they saw the alligator and used side-imaging electronics to locate him. On one pass the gator was suspended. On the next pass, he was resting on the bottom. The group marked the spot on a GPS and then pulled out rods and reels.
I made a couple of blind casts and got a hook on him," Harris said. "The
the only way I could tell it wasn't a log is as soon as I hooked him he
went about 10 feet and slid off into some deep water.
"We got three more hooks in him. All these poles have a 150-pound line on
them and 20 pounds of drag. It's heavy stuff."
Harris, speaking Saturday after only a few hours of sleep, said time was
somewhat of a blur, but after about an hour of fighting the alligator, he
finally tired enough that they were able to pull him to the surface and get a
look at him.
"We didn't know he was that big, but we knew he was a pretty good one
when we saw him on the fish-finder," said Michael Fielder of Brandon.
"When you see one on there you know it's a pretty decent size. When we
saw him we knew he was pretty large."
They also knew he was strong.
"We were worn out," Fielder said. "We couldn't budge him off the bottom.
"We had four lines trying to get him off the bottom and he wouldn't move.
It was like pulling a log off the bottom. Every once in a while he'd take a
couple of steps, but other than that, he wouldn't move."
The gator was tired enough to come to the surface, but he wasn't close to
giving up. Fielder place another line on the gator with a crossbow and the
gator started dragging the boat.
The fight wasn't over
"He took off and took us through some trees a storm blew down,"
Harris said.
"He had us all tangled up, but we had two boats.
"I got in the other boat and got another line on him. When I got the
other lines on him he really didn't go anywhere because he had so many
lines on him and was so tangled up."
After two hours of battling the big alligator, the hunting party was able to
secure him with two snares; however, he was so tangled in lines and limbs,
they couldn't get him into open water with their trolling motor.
"We had to crank up the 70-horse motor to pull him out," Harris said.
The alligator was dispatched and when they got him in the boat,
they realized what they had.
"We measured him at 13 feet, 9 inches on the boat, but when we stretched
him out he was 13 feet, 8 inches," Harris said. "I'm going to weigh him
sometime this week when I get scales.
"I think this is the biggest one to come out of the reservoir itself. He's
going to go 600, maybe 700 pounds."
Ricky Flynt, Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Park's
The Alligator Program coordinator, said conditions varied on an opening
day, but a good number of large alligators were harvested.
"It's just hard to tell," Flynt said. "I'm going off social media posts.
"I'm going off other officers. The conditions were pretty good. Everybody
was seeing gators."
However, Flynt said hunters in the Delta may have experienced a setback.
"At least in the Delta, ramps are an issue," Flynt said. "The water is so low
and the ramps are silted in. It's probably concentrating hunters where they
have access. On social media, it still looks like some very nice gators were
taken last night."
The Clarion-Ledger
The four are accused of traveling to Kansas and Nebraska--states where they were not licensed to hunt--and leaving trophy spurs and beards of over 25 wild turkeys.
The legal limit for killing turkeys in Kansas is two per person.
It is against federal laws to transport wildlife across state lines if killed against state law.
Britt also faces a felony of lying to a federal law enforcement officer, while Smith is accused of killing red-shouldered hawks, which is a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
if guilty, Britt faces a total of seven years in prison and a $450,000 fine. Smith faces two and a half years in prison and a $215,000 fine. Bairfield faces three years in prison and a $300,000 fine, and Treadway faces a year in prison and a $100,000 fine.
The fine sportsmen and women of this state can rest assured that, nationwide, conservation enforcement agencies, along with Agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will continue working together to stop the thievery and abuse of our valuable natural resources,” Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks Colonel Steve Adcock said.
Yesterday morning I took these pictures of M/V Jeffrey G southbound and M/V Lat Gonsoulin northbound on a very pretty day before MARCO & LAURA appears.
Also, a sunken barge sticking out of the MS River.
M/V Big Valley 379 northbound towards the curve in the MS River called Delta Point. The calm before MARCO and LAURA heading towards TX, LA, and MS borders with the prediction of bad weather for the rest of the week.
My Facebook friend, Mike Persichini took these adorable pictures of Mom teaching one of her triplet bucks that the guy (Mike) throwing out peanut butter and bread is a good guy.
It's too late for that!
