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April 25, 2026

Gil Woodis of Philadelphia shows off some nice fall crappie caught on Barnett last fall.

Fall fishing is fun for everyone

September 8, 2014 Paul Johnson

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.

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Bowfin: An ancient fish with an attitude

September 4, 2014 Hal Schramm

Bowfin are easily recognized by the flattened head, continuous dorsal fin over two-thirds of the back and rounded tail. […]

David Wall has fished Grenada Lake for 57 of his 75 years of life, with his best catfish, a 55-½ pounder coming from only 4 feet of water during a late September outing.

Catfish Hotspot Series: Cats in crappie heaven

September 1, 2014 Phillip Gentry

Fifty-seven years — that’s how long David Wall of the small Big Creek Community on the upper end of Grenada Lake has fished for catfish in the massive flood control watershed. […]

Catfish anglers can catch skipjack herring on Sabiki rigs in areas with clear, shallow running water.

Pickle: Gotta have skipjack bait

August 15, 2014 Phillip Gentry

A recurring theme from both the Mississippi and Tenn-Tom anglers is the importance of using river herring for bait when attempting to catch catfish, particularly trophy-sized blue cats. The hands-down favorite is skipjack herring, a.k.a. skipjack shad.

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Finding baitfish and pulling lures the proper depth are keys to catching summer slabs.

Cranking productivity

August 8, 2014 Paul Johnson

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. […]

Bass and other predatory fish don’t seem to be as affected by boat noise as baitfish.

Is silence golden?

August 5, 2014 Hal Schramm

Is there is an avid angler who hasn’t wondered about the effects of outboard motors, trolling motors or even the sounds of fishing on fish? […]

Manmade structures, such as grain bins, produce action all year, but are best right after grain has been loaded.

Red-hot river cats — Mississippi River catfishing tips

August 1, 2014 Phillip Gentry

Pat and Jay Pickle of Rolling Fork are a father-son fishing team that has been running the Mississippi River together for trophy catfish for most of their lives. […]

The perfect bream rig

July 17, 2014 Andy Crawford

I grew up bream fishing, and we caught a lot of fish using cane poles. And as I aged, I pretty much kept to the same approach, moving to telescopic graphite jig poles. […]

Drane carries his yo-yos, 25 to the box, in an old Styrofoam ice chest. Mississippi laws limit each fisherman to 25 yo-yo devices, and on Lake Washington, anglers must remain within sight of the devices during daylight hours.

Lake Washington yo-yo fishing regulations

July 15, 2014 Phillip Gentry

No more than 25 yo-yos may be fished by an individual. […]

Bluegill and redear, which are biting good at other MDWFP lakes, have been restocked in Lake Tangipohoa at Percy Quin State Park. The 700-acre lake has been closed since its dam was damaged in Hurricane Issac in 2012, causing it to be drained.

Stocking starts at Percy Quin

July 10, 2014 Bobby Cleveland

While bream fishing reports are good at many of the honey holes in its state lakes system, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has announced a big step in the comeback in one of its hot spots. […]

Jeremy Aldridge and Clint Egbert of Batesville won two MCC events this year. The were named the circuit’s Rookie Team of the Year.

What tournaments can teach you

July 10, 2014 Paul Johnson

The Magnolia Crappie Club fished our 23rd annual state championship the last weekend in May. Thirty-seven teams qualified by fishing in seven out of our nine regular-season tournaments, and competed for bragging rights and over $20,000 in cash prize money in a two-day event held on Sardis and Enid Reservoirs. […]

Crappie abundance is closely tied to water level.

Dealing with dynamics

July 7, 2014 Hal Schramm

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. […]