Crappie/Bream
Pull crankbaits for post-spawn crappie
Pickwick Lake provides literally miles of open water mid-depth flats that are prime for trolling for crappie. […]
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Crappie/Bream
Picking the right docks for black, white crappie
With crappie season in full swing, all crappie tend to get lumped together into one species and most anglers don’t fish any differently, or even care what the differences are. […]
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Vary your turkey call selection
Collinsville’s Mark McPhail has been hunting turkey in Mississippi since he was 20, and has learned a few things in the process. […]
Bass Fishing
Water temperatures key to spring bass bite
Bass pros know surface temperatures play a key role in bass activity during the pre-spawn period, especially in March when instinct tells the big fish to move shallow. […]
Crappie/Bream
Flood-control lakes present crappie fishing challenge
Dereck Redwine is an engineering technician who works at the dam on Grenada Lake. It’s his job to maintain proper water levels at the big U.S. Army Corps of Engineers flood control project. […]
Crappie/Bream
Getting ready to wade for crappie
A good pair of waders, an 8- or 9-foot rod and a box of jigs is all that’s required to get on some big crappie at Grenada this month. […]
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Pro turkey tip: Start easy, call less
When it comes to talking turkey, there’s no better resource than Mississippi turkey legend Preston Pittman, a native of Hattiesburg who now resides in Canton. […]
Bass Fishing
Other Ned Rig options
While the Z-Man Finesse TRDs are made specifically to be used with the Ned Rig, there are a couple of other options. […]
Freshwater Fishing
10 Tenn-Tom locks and dams
The Tenn-Tom waterway is composed of 10 locks, which are stretch from north to south along the waterway; […]
Freshwater Fishing
B’n’M Poles enters catfish pole market
About three years ago, West Point’s B’n’M Poles, made an expansion of their nearly exclusive crappie and panfish lines to include catfish rods. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 200 years in the making
The first known recommendation to build a water transportation route connecting the Tennessee and Tombigbee Rivers was made by a French explorer, the Marquis de Montcalm, to Louis XV of France between 1760 and 1770. […]
Bass Fishing
Location consideration for pre-spawn bass
Here are some nuggets of wisdom to help you locate fish along their seasonal routes.
Making hay: — FLW regional pro Phil Marks knows the standard seasonal targets, but he said it’s also important to pay attention to weather events and how they might influence subsequent seasons. […]