Freshwater Fishing
Doing the crappie jig
Now I’d be the first to admit that, at my age, my dancing days are over, but I sure do love to slip a bright colored, fluffy-tailed jig hook down into some prime crappie cover. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Bobby C's Outdoors
Mississippi Freshwater Grand Slam
Wham! Something whacked the lipless crankbait, mid-pump, as I worked it on a submerged roadbed on Lake Albemarle, the old Mississippi River oxbow. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Hand over fist
Greg Parker guided his flat-bottomed boat toward a spot near the northern shore of the Ross Barnett Reservoir. […]
Featured Story
Where there’s a will, there’s a way
Thunder, lightning, wind and, last but not least, rain tormented Mississippi fishermen statewide the past week. When the weather wasn’t the problem, its lasting effects — high, muddy and swift waters — were.
But at least a few fishermen were able to figure out an answer and beat the conditions. It was easy for some, not for others. […]
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Catfish stocking scheduled for Pearl River
An estimated 14,000 pounds of blue catfish are set to be released Friday (June 15) into the Pearl River near Picayune as part of the recovery effort following a massive fish kill last year, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced.
More than 200,000 fish and freshwater mussels were killed after an equipment malfunction at Temple-Inland Paper Mill in Bogalusa, La., caused a spill of paper-making byproducts that depleted oxygen in the river’s water. […]
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Catfish stocking scheduled for Pearl River
An estimated 14,000 pounds of blue catfish are set to be released Friday (June 15) into the Pearl River near Picayune as part of the recovery effort following a massive fish kill last year, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks announced.
More than 200,000 fish and freshwater mussels were killed after an equipment malfunction at Temple-Inland Paper Mill in Bogalusa, La., caused a spill of paper-making byproducts that depleted oxygen in the river’s water. […]
Crappie/Bream
Bream fishing getting insanely good
Changing weather patterns this week have played havoc with many fishermen, but there are a few exceptions. “I was disappointed that the cold fronts knocked the shad down off the surface and ruined the fishing for striped bass and hybrid bass this week, but oh buddy it sure hasn’t hurt the crappie fishing,” said William Thomas of Jackson, whose deeply-trolled crankbaits kept enticing slab crappie on Barnett Reservoir. […]
Crappie/Bream
New regulation sets boat creel limit on North Mississippi crappie
A Public Notice of Intent passed by the Commission on Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks adopted a boat creel limit on crappie for Arkabutla, Sardis, Enid and Grenada Flood Control Reservoirs in North Mississippi. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Hand-grabbing regulations
Jerry Brown, a fisheries biologist for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said the fact that blues and flatheads are cavity spawners accounts for their willingness to enter man-made boxes during the spawning season. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Bomber crankbaits still a top producer
Although “Mr. Ken” Franklin agrees the newer crankbaits look good and catch a lot of crappie, he’s a member of the original “Bomb Squad” and prefers to pull plugs made by the Bomber Bait Company. […]
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Crappie Hotspot Series – Enid Lake
An ad on the back page of a magazine touted a particular brand of crankbait as “the newest and hottest tactic on the water.” In the ad, a young crappie-fishing guide wearing a NASCAR-style fishing jersey emblazoned with sponsors displays a slab crappie while the images of the crankbait in hot pink and neon chartreuse colors fills the background. All the “new” hype over catching crappie on crankbaits makes Ken Franklin just smile. […]
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Hand over fist
Greg Parker guided his flat-bottomed boat toward a spot near the northern shore of the Ross Barnett Reservoir. In the boat were no rods and reels, no bait buckets or tackle boxes — just a large cooler with some ice, a bag of gloves, a roll of duct tape and a few other tools of the hand-grabbers trade.
Parker cut the motor, removed his life vest and allowed the boat to glide to a near stop before he rolled over the gunwale, hardly making a splash. In his hand was a catch stick, used by poultry workers to collect chickens. […]