Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 47 of 86

April 25, 2026

Catfish Hotspot Series: No gamble at Tunica

December 1, 2014 Phillip Gentry

Using the old oxbow Tunica Lake as a base, Mississippi River fishermen have a sure bet on cold-water catfish action. […]

Ellison Bates of Fannin shows off a couple of big fish caught at the recent fall Big Mama event on Grenada Lake.

College football and crappie fishing

December 1, 2014 Paul Johnson

If you’re enjoying this autumn as much as I am, you’re having a really great time watching Ole Miss and Mississippi State show out. […]

Derek’s Potato-Crusted Catfish

November 24, 2014 Jerald Horst

After he heard about frying venison backstrap with crushed potato chips and croutons, Derek Logan fried fish with instant mashed potatoes. […]

The author loads his Abu Garcia Silver Max reels with a system of presets so when he breaks off he is still in the game with a quick tie-on of another crankbait.

A lesson on loading line

November 9, 2014 Paul Johnson

Hot dog! It’s late October and the crappie are absolutely burning it up, friend.

Now is the time to load up on some of the year’s biggest, most-aggressive white perch. I’m not kidding, friend. November is one of the top two or three months of the entire year to catch quantity and quality crappie. […]

You have to count lateral line scales to tell this Choctaw bass from a spotted bass.

Choctaw bass or not?

November 6, 2014 Hal Schramm

In 2007, fishery researchers Brandon Barthel, John Knight and Mike Tringali at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute were conducting genetic analysis of black bass in Florida Panhandle rivers when they found a DNA profile from a Chipola River specimen that didn’t match any other known black bass. […]

Crappie Trailers

November 1, 2014 Mississippi Sportsman

Normally used as an add-on to other crappie lures such as tube jigs or small crappie spinner baits, Crappie Trailers from The Crappie Psychic, LLC feature a beveled design that creates greater bait action and generates more strikes. […]

Jerry Pounders of Columbus is a man of God first and a catfisherman second. He loves to catch trophy-sized flathead catfish from Pickensville Lake near his home.

Pounders picks apart Pickensville — Best catfishing tactics for Tenn-Tom’s Aliceville Pool

November 1, 2014 Phillip Gentry

For Jerry Pounders of Columbus, catching catfish out of the Tenn-Tom waterway comes second nature. His first calling is in the service of the Lord as a youth pastor at Zion Assembly Church of God, but fishing isn’t far behind and he manages to find time to fish with his brother Joey. […]

According to creator Clyde Folse, the scent will remain on the little soft plastic strips for two or three years.

The Crappie Psychic

October 30, 2014 Don Shoopman

There were days as recently as this summer that a 51-year-old Raceland outdoorsman returned from a sac-a-lait (crappie) fishing trip and removed a secret weapon on his tube jig about a mile from the boat ramp. He did this so no one would get so much as a glimpse of the artificial add-on responsible for putting so many slabs in the ice chest. […]

Cooler weather puts a lot of crappie fishermen to work on the oxbow lakes. Paul Johnson loves them when they bite two at the time on Eagle Lake.

Don’t forget crappie, bream in the fall

October 20, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

Crappie fishing in the fall and later on through the winter means fish gang up in big schools under big wads of shad. […]

Phil King uses a two-hook Santee-Cooper trolling rig. The two circle hooks insure an almost 99-percent hookup on big cats.

King believes in 2-hook trolling rig for catfish

October 15, 2014 Phillip Gentry

For trophy blue and flathead catfish trolling, Phil King uses a variation of the Santee-Cooper Trolling Rig. […]

New to crappie tournament fishing, Ellison Bates of Fannin shows off a Wolf Lake “slab.”

Finicky fish will soon want to feed

October 9, 2014 Paul Johnson

Ordinarily, my deadline for submitting each month’s “As Big As They Grow” column with Mississippi Sportsman is the first day of the month immediately preceding next month’s magazine issue date. I asked this time to be a week late, wanting to reference the Magnolia Crappie Club’s first tournament of the new 2014-15 season as the backdrop of this column. […]

This month, the King of Catfishing, Phil King, takes us on a tour of his favorite catfishing hotspots along the upper Tenn-Tom Waterway.

Tenn-Tom’s ‘King’ of catfishing

October 1, 2014 Phillip Gentry

Over the last 20 years, national catfishing tournaments have slowly but surely made their way forward into the limelight of the mainstream outdoors. Less about flair and showmanship than the big bass trails, catfish anglers are a breed apart. […]