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Crappie and mayflies

July 15, 2013 Phillip Gentry

Where insect hatches like mayflies, midges and mosquitoes come into play in the crappie feeding cycle is when they are in the larval stages. […]

Veteran crappie anglers Brad Taylor and Hugh Krutz don’t let hot weather stand in the way of their crappie fishing.

Crappie Down Deep — How to catch Ross Barnett crappie when summer heats move them to deep water

July 1, 2013 Phillip Gentry

Well, it’s July and it’s hot. The weather’s hot, the waters hot and, other than brief periods at night or the first couple of hours of daylight, it’s also jet ski/pleasure boat rush hour on the Rez. […]

Rogers and Jeffcoats ruled the field with 14 fish that weighed 24.90 pounds.

Pulling cranks and catching crappie

July 1, 2013 Paul Johnson

It’s July — thank goodness. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t be singing the praises of the coming Mississippi summer with all our hot weather, but, based on the last few months of unprecedented cold and windy conditions, I’m glad to see summer finally get here. […]

Former fisheries director Ron Garavelli caught this striped bass Wednesday (June 26) at Barnett Reservoir.

Garavelli reeling in benefits of his labor

June 27, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

Two weeks into his retirement, Ron Garavelli is reeling in the benefits of his 28 years as Mississippi’s chief of fisheries. […]

Charles and Charlie Lindsay of Pelahatchie were the Overall Points Champions for MCC’s 2012-13 season.

The show must go on

June 4, 2013 Paul Johnson

Are you like me — fed up with the wet, windy, cold weather we’ve had the last few months? Don’t know about you, but it has made my fishing life miserable this season. […]

Micro-fishery habitats can be those secret places on every lake that produces good catches.

Chute ’em crappie

June 1, 2013 John J. Woods

Micro fishery habitats can produce some mighty good fishing. Seasoned crappie anglers know what I mean. They typically return to the same “honey holes” every year, making a sound bet they are going to produce again and again year after year. […]

Phillip McAnally has been fishing Bay Springs his whole life and provided some insights on what to expect year-round on the 6,700 acre impoundment.

Lost in Transition — Best tactics to catch Bay Springs crappie

May 1, 2013 Phillip Gentry

“A lot of anglers struggle here,” said Bay Springs crappie guide and local fishing guru Wayne Inman. “They expect it to fish like the other big crappie lakes in the state, and that’s just not the case here.”

What Inman means is not that Bay Springs is a poor crappie lake; in fact, exactly the opposite is true. But to successfully catch crappie in the 6,700-acre impoundment, anglers will need to understand a few dynamics about the lake.

First is that depth changes are relatively extreme from one end of the impoundment to the other. […]

You know you are fishing the peak of the crappie spawn in a certain area when the females you catch are in the egg-laying process, like this one caught Wednesday by Keith Partridge of Terry at Barnett Reservoir.

Crappie spawn: Don’t blink, you could miss it

April 18, 2013 Bobby Cleveland

The first report of spawning crappie came Monday afternoon (April 15) on one particular spot on Barnett Reservoir. By Tuesday afternoon, it was over in that honey hole and Wednesday bites were tough to come by. “But we found them again, in a very similar area, about a mile up the lake,” said Joe Alford of Brandon, who fished with his son Jace. “I was in on that tremendous run between the islands Tuesday but it was over on Wednesday. […]