Freshwater Fishing Archives - Page 76 of 86

Pro Chip

June 27, 2011 Mississippi Sportsman

The Pro Chip line started by John McWhite has expanded this year to the Freshwater market. […]

The Magnolia Crappie Club Team of dad Eli and son Cole Rowell look forward to the summer when they can beat the heat by fishing south Mississippi rivers for crappie.

Summertime provides a great opportunity to get kids involved in fishing. Crappie and other panfish are ideally suited for teaching children how to fish because they readily bite, and where there’s one, there’s likely to be more. […]

Yellow catfish, or flatheads, are also found in the Mississippi River.

Don’t forget about yellow cats

June 14, 2011 Phillip Gentry

While blue cats are a big draw on the Mississippi River, they aren’t the only big cat to be found, especially when fishing during the summer. Flathead catfish, or yellow cats as they are locally referred to, present just as much fun and excitement as blue cats, and the action is better after dark. […]

Okatibbee has been producing larger than normal crappie in the last couple of years, which may be a pleasant surprise for Magnolia Crappie Club anglers on their next tournament stop.

Crankin’ crappie

June 10, 2011 Phillip Gentry

When it comes to targeting crappie, several key ingredients make crankbait trolling work. One popular setup is to pull crankbaits on rods that stagger along each side of the boat. […]

From the public ramp at LeTourneau, numerous catfish holes can be found both up and down the river.

Holes in Big Muddy

May 31, 2011 Phillip Gentry

It’s interesting how a day of rod-bending action from a fish that takes two hands to hold starts with an ultralight rod and some tiny jig baits.
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Take Your Pick

May 31, 2011 Phillip Gentry

The day started out especially warm for late May as Magnolia Crappie Club tournament director Hugh Krutz and his partner Steve Stevenson headed out for a day of crappie fishing. […]

Hand-to-Hand Combat

May 31, 2011 John E. Phillips

As Michael Willoughby of Brandon vanished beneath the waters of Ross Barnett Reservoir near Jackson, I couldn’t believe what I saw. He’d already gone underwater at this same spot, and when he’d come up dripping wet, he’d announced, “We’ve got one in there.” […]

Hand-grabbing is not for the squeamish, but those who do it absolutely love it.

Hand grabbing catfish: Does it hurt populations?

May 31, 2011 Hal Schramm

Hand grappling. Grapplin’. Noodling. Hand fishing. Call it what you will, it is a deeply rooted passion for some adventuresome anglers and a flashpoint for others. […]

Mississippi River flooding causing fish kills in Delta, MDWFP says

May 25, 2011 MDWFP news release

Several fish kills have been reported on lakes inundated by the rising Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks reported today (May 25).

“We have received reports from several conservation officers that fish kills have started in some of the flooded areas.” MDWFP’s Director of Fisheries Programs Ron Garavelli said.

The rising Mississippi River has redistributed debris, soils, chemicals, fuel, and other materials into lakes and rivers, to which state officials attribute the kills. […]

Building better crappie fisheries, part III

April 29, 2011 Hal Schramm

Crappie are notoriously cyclic. A lake is producing fair to good numbers of slabs for a couple years and then, mysteriously, the big fish disappear and are replaced with abundant but small fish. […]

When the fish aren’t spawning, they’ll stage in certain areas. That pattern will be consistent around the whole lake.

A Day on Okatibbee Lake

April 28, 2011 Michael O. Giles

Joe Giles is an expert bass angler and crappie angler who has spent a lifetime fishing Okatibbee Lake. Though he fishes for bass during most of the year, he concentrates on catching the succulent slabs from late February during pre-spawn, into April and through the spawn. […]

Mississippi River levels play a deciding role in how far up on the bank bream will bed in oxbow lakes.

Filled to the Bream

April 28, 2011 Phillip Gentry

“The worst thing you could do in here is run the trolling motor,” quipped Grenada bream expert Brad Kilgore as he sculled with one hand and flipped his cork back into the hole from which he had just snatched a feisty hand-sized bream. […]