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A proposed 11-inch minimum length limit and a 30-fish daily creel limit are designed to produce more slab crappie on Eagle Lake. It being a border lake, however, the changes would require Louisiana to adopt the same changes.

Changes proposed for crappie limits

May 27, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Five of Mississippi’s top crappie hot spots would have new limits and other regulation changes under a proposal passed last week by the Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. […]

Focus on travel routes for postspawn crappie

May 24, 2015 Dan Kibler

Catching crappie after the spawn is a matter of following them along their travel routes to deep water. Here are some tips. […]

Layne Carpenter, 12, caught the fish of a lifetime five minutes into his tournament-fishing career.

You can’t make stuff like this up

May 7, 2015 Paul Johnson

Fishermen are known to tell tall tales — we all know that. How do you know when a fisherman is telling a lie? His lips are moving — right? […]

Carry a wide selection of wildly colored jigs, given options for any kind of water clarity, which, in Mississippi, can range from clear to chocolate milk.

In most situations, go with bright jigs

April 15, 2015 John J. Woods

Jerry Gross of Meatgetter Jigs of Rison, Ark., is one crappie fishing fool — and, I mean that in a good way. […]

Clear Water = long-lining crappie success

April 15, 2015 Phillip Gentry

In clear waters, many crappie anglers think that long-line trolling is a great way to target crappie from a distance. […]

Steve Coleman loves fishing at Grenada Lake, where he often fills his stringer with 2- and 3-pound slabs.

Slab state — Mississippi’s top crappie hotspots

April 1, 2015 John J. Woods

When it comes to crappie fishing, Mississippi takes a backseat to no other.

Just look at Fishhound.com, a popular industry website. On its latest list of the Top 50 crappie lakes, the Magnolia State has the No. 1 hotspot, Grenada Lake, and two others in the Top 10, No. 5 Sardis Lake and No. 6 Barnett Reservoir. […]

Anglers can really stack up crappie when they head to the banks for spawn by using a single rod.

Go old-school for shallow crappie

March 20, 2015 Dan Kibler

Melvin Cummings explains why the best way to present a bait to a shallow crappie this month is jigging up close with a single pole. […]

Finding egg-filled female slab crappie on Barnett in March means fishing the first drop out from the spawning area. Keith Partridge found this one in 6 feet of water as it waited to move up to the shallow grass (in the background) to spawn.

March = pre-spawn crappie

March 15, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

In most of Mississippi, the peak of the crappie spawn, that magical time of spring when the popular fish move shallow and are vulnerable, happens in April, but veteran crappie fishermen love March just as much. […]

The Magnolia Crappie gets its signature racing stripe from the male black crappie used to mate with a white crappie female.

Magnolia crappie perfect for State Lakes

March 15, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

For decades, any crappie caught in one of the 36 State Lakes and State Park lakes managed by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks was not of the agency’s doing. […]

The Magnolia Crappie Club makes a trip or two to Lake Washington each season, and a 3-pounder at the weigh-in is a common sight.

Washington tough to beat in March

March 9, 2015 Bobby Cleveland

Seems the whole world is learning how good crappie fishing is in Mississippi. Find a listing where some magazine or website has ranked the Top 10, 20 or 50 spots in the country, and the state will be well represented. […]

How to hook a minnow

February 21, 2015 Phillip Gentry

While fishing a Crappie Masters tournament several years ago, an observer asked veteran angler Whitey Outlaw about the way he hooked a minnow on his jig. […]

Glynn Lavergne catches tons of crappie because he uses very light, sensitive tackle.

Tips from a crappie killer

February 20, 2015 Chris Berzas

Part of Glynn Lavergne’s secret to success with slab crappie has to do with the very sensitive tackle he uses to entice fish. […]