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Mississippi Outdoors Podcast episodes

October 07 How a Mississippi Broom Company Became a Crappie Fishing Giant
How did a Mississippi company that started by making brooms and mops become one of the biggest names in crappie fishing? Jack Wells of B'n'M Pole Company joins the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast to tell the story of a business that has called West Point, Mississippi home for nearly 80 years.
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29 min
September 30 How One Mississippi Landowner Is Rebuilding Wildlife Habitat
What can a private landowner actually do to improve wildlife habitat? Mississippi landowner and lifelong hunter Randy Taylor joins the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast to talk about the changes he's making on his family's property after decades of managing deer and hunting the land.
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32 min
September 23 50 Years of Primos Hunting: Jimmy Primos on the TV Show, the Business & His Favorite Hunts
Jimmy Primos joins Matt Wyatt on the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast to look back on 50 years of Primos Hunting, from making turkey calls in a backyard workshop to building one of the most recognizable brands in the hunting industry.

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42 min
September 16 How Do Geckos Stick to Walls? What a Mississippi Professor Is Discovering
Did you know geckos live in Mississippi, and that you may have them around your house without ever noticing? Travis Hagey, a professor at Mississippi University for Women, joins the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast to explain the reptiles living around us and the unusual science behind gecko feet.
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30 min
September 09 Why Turkey Trumpet Calls Work: Bill Lester on Sound, Craft & Calling
What makes a turkey trumpet different from every other call?

2025 Mississippi Sportsman of the Year Bill Lester joins the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast to demonstrate the calls he's spent decades developing and explain why he believes the ability to call softly can make such a difference on a gobbler.

Bill takes us from traditional wing-bone calls to acrylic trumpets, brass mouthpieces and some of his newest designs. He also shares stories from a lifetime outdoors — homemade bird decoys, his first dove hunt, calling turkeys from a quarter-mile away, teaching art at Delta State for 38 years and the artistic side of building every call by hand.
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37 min
September 02 Post-Civil War Outdoor Magazines and Mississippi's Forgotten Writers with James T. McCafferty
Outdoor magazines go back further than most people realize. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with returning guest James T. McCafferty, author and outdoor historian, to talk about the writers who documented hunting and fishing in Mississippi as far back as the 1830s.
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43 min
August 26 Growing Trees for Wildlife: Meet the Tree Guy at Mossy Oak, Dudley Phelps
You know Mossy Oak for deer and turkey hunting gear — but did you know they have a tree expert on staff? In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with Dudley Phelps, known around Mossy Oak as "the tree guy," to talk about growing trees for wildlife habitat.
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30 min
August 19 Light Pollution Is Confusing Migratory Birds: Ornithologist Murray Burgess Explains
Have you noticed it's a little harder to see the stars at night lately? That's light pollution, and it turns out it's doing a lot more than dimming the night sky. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with Murray Burgess, ornithologist at Mississippi State University, to talk about how artificial light is affecting migratory birds.
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25 min
August 12 Mississippi's Hospitality Ambassador: Robert St. John on Food, Family & the Coast
Mississippi is the Hospitality State — and few people have done more to prove it than Robert St. John. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with the Hattiesburg restaurateur, author, and travel host to talk about food, Mississippi, and a career that started because he flunked out of college.

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30 min
August 05 How to Stock a Pond: Species, Timing, and Common Mistakes with Larry Bull
If you've got a pond on your property — or you're about to dig one — this episode is for you. In this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, Matt Wyatt sits down with Larry Bull, retired MDWFP fisheries biologist, to walk through exactly how to stock a pond and get it right the first time.
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31 min

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Listen to the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast, hosted by Matt Wyatt. We'll dive into fascinating conversations about Mississippi's rich outdoor life, where each episode brings new knowledge about…