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Lakeway has been a sportsman’s icon in the Grenada Lake area for over 20 years and has evolved from a convenience store and bait shop to a full service hunting and fishing headquarters.

Lakeway Archery & Outfitters

December 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Over 20 years ago, as an enterprising young sportsman, Jason Golden opened Lakeway Sporting Goods as a convenience store that sold fishing supplies on the side. […]

The winter months offer the best opportunities to catch big bass because fishing pressure declines.

December marks the beginning of my favorite time to be bass fishing. No, I don’t like the challenge of being so cold it hurts, being stuffed into so many layers of clothing that it’s hard to move or the thrill of falling into 45-degree water. […]

Fishing might have been tough in October, but by December crappie should be in pre-winter feeding frenzies.
inset: Flowood’s Randy Morrow caught this fall crappie fishing with the author.

Mix it up this month

December 1, 2012 Paul Johnson

I just love this time of the year! Crappie fishing is never better, as far as I am concerned — including the ever-popular spring season. I said it before: Crappie, during this time of the year, “feed up.” The shorter days and cooling water temps signal freshwater fish that winter, with its hard times, is right around the corner. […]

Sharing a common border with both Alabama and Tennessee, this month we pick the pockets of Shoals Area Crappie Association angler Darrell Keil to find out his favorite 10 crappie fishing hotspots for Pickwick Lake.

Crappie Hotspots – Pickwick Lake

November 21, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Located at the most-northern reach of the Tom-Bigbee Waterway, Pickwick Lake is synonymous with crappie fishing to many anglers in the tri-state areas of Northeast Mississippi, Northwest Alabama, and Southern Tennessee.

Pickwick’s clear waters are in stark contrast to most of Mississippi’s other notable crappie lakes, but its reputation as a slab crappie fishery is well earned.

As cooler weather settles in for the season, two things occur that help crappie anglers hone in on their favorite game fish. With flood control as one of the lake’s primary objectives, the Tennessee Valley Authority begins drawing the impoundment down to winter pool. In reaction to both the receding and cooling water, crappie tend to congregate along the main channels of Pickwick’s major tributaries. […]

The Magnolia Crappie Club kicked off its new season at Grenada, with new leadership taking the reigns of the nation’s largest crappie club.

The more the merrier

November 12, 2012 Paul Johnson

Since last month, the Magnolia Crappie Club and crappie fishing in general here in Mississippi has really gotten busy. Oh, I know that lots of Mississippi’s outdoorsmen turn their full attention toward deer hunting now, but trust me — not all of us spend every waking moment planning our next deer kill. […]

Where do southern channel cats go in the winter? There’s not much science to go by.

Channel catfish winter whereabouts

November 5, 2012 Hal Schramm

Although often considered a “Southern fish,” channel catfish provide fine fishing throughout the United States and into Canada. In northern waters, channel cats exhibit extensive annual winter migrations that rival those of many fish, including salmon. […]

Despite a die off reported this spring, white bass remain plentiful at Sardis Lake and this week they can be found schooling on points where they are waiting to ambush migrating shad.

White bass chasing shad at Sardis

November 2, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

The tricks thrown at fishermen by Mother Nature in late October are gone now, and that should produce a treat as the first weekend of November approaches. […]

Crappie Hotspots – Pickwick Lake

November 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Pickwick’s clear waters are in stark contrast to most of Mississippi’s other notable crappie lakes, but its reputation as a slab crappie fishery is well earned.

No need to worry about which side of the state line you’re on as all three of the states that border Pickwick have a reciprocal fishing license agreement that covers the majority of the lake, including all of the hotspots mentioned.

Reciprocal fishing license agreements on Pickwick

November 1, 2012 Phillip Gentry

Nobody likes getting a ticket, whether you’re driving a car or fishing in a lake. To avoid both, slow down and know the rules. […]

The bigger the bait, the bigger the catfish that will eat it.

Cold Cats — Tips for catching more November catfish

November 1, 2012 David Hawkins

The surface was still on Ross Barnett Reservoir. I wondered how the view of the boat’s wake appeared to the passengers of an airliner as it banked for the final approach into Jackson-Evers International. […]

The weather should be kicking off some fine crappie fishing in Mississippi Delta lakes, but the fish have veteran anglers confounded.

Delta crappie confounding best perch jerkers

October 23, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Fishing conditions could not be more ideal in the Delta. The temperatures have fallen to a more comfortable autumn range. Passing fronts are few and far between. […]

Even one leaf from this hydrilla plant is capable of taking root and forming a new colony of the evasive, non-native vegetation that is considered a threat to Ross Barnett Reservoir.

Anglers asked to prevent spread of Barnett hydrilla

October 18, 2012 Bobby Cleveland

Fishermen are being urged to avoid spreading hydrilla at Ross Barnett Reservoir, not only from one place to another within the popular lake but also to other state waters. […]