Freshwater Fishing

Hidden treasures

The Mississippi Delta is dotted with fisheries resources — the oxbow and abandoned channel lakes on the floodplain of the Yazoo River Basin. In contrast to the larger river lakes that were former channels of the Mighty Mississippi — lakes like Chotard, Eagle, Ferguson, Lee, Washington and Whittington — that are well known among anglers, the smaller lakes of the Yazoo Basin attract little attention. […]

As Big As they Grow

Sardis crappie are fat and healthy

Learned something new the other day while preparing for a crappie tournament to be held on Sardis Reservoir. I learned the meaning of the term “turbidity level.” Look, I was at the top of my vocabulary class when I was in grade school a hundred years or so ago, and I knew the word turbid. […]

Inshore Fishing

Bass Kandi’s Coastal Crippler

Mike “Redbone” Holland of Ragley, who owns Bass Kandi Baits — a Southwest Louisiana artificial lure manufacturing company specializings in soft plastics — and his 11-year-old son Payton were deer hunting the week before Christmas near Kerrville, Texas. […]

Fishing

Is there an electric outboard in your future?

We fishermen have seen all-electric boats come and go, but most of these vessels have been small, slow and had limited carrying capacity that make them best suited to ponds or protected lakes.

Electric outboard motors with from five to 10 horsepower are available from several makers, and electric primary propulsion outboard motor systems for open utility and pontoon boats have long been available from manufacturers like Minn Kota and Torqeedo. […]