Grenada Lake lays claim to producing more trophy-sized crappie than any other fishery in the country, earning the nickname “Home of the 3-Pound Crappie” bestowed by a local tourism board. […]
State fisheries biologist Jerry Brown provided some behind-the-scenes information that can help fishermen choose hot spots this month, and even later in the year, in Central and Southwest Mississippi. […]
The Tenn-Tom waterway is composed of 10 locks, which are stretch from north to south along the waterway; […]
About three years ago, West Point’s B’n’M Poles, made an expansion of their nearly exclusive crappie and panfish lines to include catfish rods. […]
The first known recommendation to build a water transportation route connecting the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers was made by a French explorer, the Marquis de Montcalm, to Louis XV of France between 1760 and 1770. […]
Believe it or not, we’re quickly leaving winter fishing patterns and looking at those annual pre-spawn crappie catching patterns.
Yes, it has been a weird winter. We had the warmest December on record for Mississippi. I swear the pear trees around my house were budding on Christmas Day. […]
Bruce Roberts trolled slowly with a crappie pole in each hand, searching for prespawn crappie while scanning his Humminbird down-imaging unit. […]
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers created the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway — the Tenn-Tom for short — to complete a route connecting the Tennessee River to the Tombigbee River and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Back trolling is a good technique for putting catfish in the boat, and with the right tools it is a pretty easy procedure. […]
Spider-rigging is a great way to put more crappie in the boat this month – if you understand how to best use the tactic. […]
Kenny Allen doesn’t begin to claim he’s one of the crappie pros who first hit on trolling crankbaits for big slabs, but he said he’s smart enough to know when a technique is worth using — and in January in many Southeastern reservoirs, dropping a half-dozen crankbaits behind your boat and pulling them along at various depths is a very productive way to put cold-water slabs in the boat. […]
Last month I told you about the “blue man” I ran into on a cold January day several years ago over in East Texas. He had turned blue because he was so cold and didn’t want to leave the lake because he was catching some of the biggest deep water slabs I’ve ever seen. […]
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