As Big As they Grow
Fall fishing is fun for everyone
Can you believe it? September is here. Dove season is upon us. And, as you know, dove season ushers in the ever-popular deer-hunting season.
Crappie/Bream
As Big As they Grow
Cranking productivity
For more and more crappie anglers, summer fishing includes pulling crankbaits. Granted, for the few hardcore crankers, summer comes two to three months into our cranking season. […]
Crappie/Bream
Dealing with dynamics
Mississippi’s flood-control reservoirs — Arkabutla, Sardis, Enid and Grenada — provide outstanding crappie fishing. But like crappie fisheries everywhere, the quality of the fishing in any one of these lakes varies widely from year to year. […]
Crappie/Bream
Crappie scent options
Crappie anglers have many products from which to choose. Some might be marketed more heavily to the bass world, but a shad is a shad and garlic is garlic, regardless of who’s smelling it. […]
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Common scents — Using scents to catch more crappie
Successful crappie anglers typically exude that common sense vibe. Theirs is a straightforward approach with little room for extravagance.
Often, you can alter that opening sentence with the phrase “common scents,” and still retain the full meaning. […]
Bobby C's Outdoors
Base bream bait on production
Live bait is a necessary evil of bream fishing, especially in the spring when bluegill are on the beds. […]
Crappie/Bream
Tricking out crankbaits
B’n’M pro Kent Driscoll, a noted crankbait angler, began tearing apart northern walleye tactics to see if they would work for crappie. […]
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Cranking up panfish — How to fish for crappie and bream with crankbaits
Life is full of assumptions, but to the open-minded, opportunity springs abundant. Take, for example, crankbaits. Mention that lure category and most anglers will start telling you their tales of big bass.
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Crappie Commanders — Members of the Duck Commander crew learn how to troll for Grenada Lake crappie
Think the crappie season ends after the spawn? Not so, at least not on many Mississippi waters where another even more productive pattern starts — deep trolling with crankbaits on the main lake bodies.
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Crappie Cockpit Recon – Tips for crappie fishing
Boat space, accessory placement and functionality impact fishing efficiency. Here’s how to make the most of your day on the water. […]
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Crappie head to spawning grounds
Finally, we’re breaking out of a record cold and miserable Mississippi winter, and we’re looking at spring right around the corner. Snow and frozen interstates in South Mississippi? Frozen pipes and a few frozen lakes and ponds? Sixteen days in a row — a Mississippi record — where temps didn’t get above freezing in Central Mississippi? […]
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Prespawn super slabs
John Harrison waded slowly until he was a pole’s reach of a flooded cypress tree before easing a jig into the knees and roots.
Wham! A Grenada Lake slab crappie nailed it. […]