A recurring theme from both the Mississippi and Tenn-Tom anglers is the importance of using river herring for bait when attempting to catch catfish, particularly trophy-sized blue cats. The hands-down favorite is skipjack herring, a.k.a. skipjack shad.
Pat and Jay Pickle of Rolling Fork are a father-son fishing team that has been running the Mississippi River together for trophy catfish for most of their lives. […]
Anchoring in the Mississippi River requires more planning than just dropping anchor and landing where you want. The aforementioned current, so important to catching catfish, plays havoc on boat positioning. Once settled, it can also be difficult to unhook due to the force of the current on the boat. […]
The recent announcement of B’n’M’s new Duck Commander Series of crappie fishing poles has taken the angling world by storm, although some remain skeptical of the qualifications of well-known duck hunters.
B’n’M pro Kent Driscoll, a noted crankbait angler, began tearing apart northern walleye tactics to see if they would work for crappie. […]
Getting there: Grenada Lake is located just east of I-55 in the heart of North Mississippi and is the second in line of Mississippi’s I-55 corridor lakes — Barnett Reservoir near Jackson, Grenada, Enid, Sardis and Arkabutla. Take Exit 206 off of I-55 to reach the town of Grenada, for which the lake is named. […]
Bob Crosby of Madison has been fishing the Mississippi River along the outskirts of the town of Vicksburg for nearly 15 years. The success Crosby found over the years created the desire to share his knowledge and the adventure of hauling in trophy-sized blue catfish. […]
Think the crappie season ends after the spawn? Not so, at least not on many Mississippi waters where another even more productive pattern starts — deep trolling with crankbaits on the main lake bodies.
Lake Washington, recently ranked by the website Fishhound.com as one of the top 10 crappie fishing lakes in the country, could see even better fishing soon. […]
John Harrison waded slowly until he was a pole’s reach of a flooded cypress tree before easing a jig into the knees and roots.
Wham! A Grenada Lake slab crappie nailed it. […]
Just how big was the giant blue catfish that John Summers caught and released in the Mississippi River in 2007?
“So big,” Summers said, “that it couldn’t be replicated.” […]
For two years, Michael Keene believed he had blown two opportunities he had on the same day to take a buck of a lifetime in Yalobusha County, including any chance he’d ever have of seeing the antlers hang on his wall. […]
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