Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River in northeast Mississippi is one of the best wintertime bass lakes in the country. You can catch a wide variety of bass there, including largemouths, smallmouths, spotted bass, striped bass and hybrid striped bass. […]
To combat spooking crappie in wintertime gin clear waters, Whitehead will add a Thill balsa wood slip cork to troll jigs further away from the boat. […]
In order to accommodate the crappie enthusiast who’s gotten hooked on fishing sideways, Monticello, Ark.-based War Eagle Boats has started offering a list of side pulling options on its RG 1754 model aluminum boats. The design and setup were the brain child of side-pulling founder and War Eagle pro-staffer, Roger Gant. […]
Forget spring — Fishing guide Brad Whitehead believes there might be no better time to catch slab crappie at Lake Pickwick than right now. […]
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. […]
With a veritable jungle of iron weeds, small brush and other shoreline structure to hide in, there are some specific areas that go virtually untouched by fishermen — everyone that is, except members of the angling world’s plastic armada. […]
Mother Nature can be a fickle mistress. One summer you get no love from the clouds, and the next year they won’t stop pouring rain. […]
Karl Hudson typically doesn’t fish with other people. It’s not that the bass angler, who lives in Corinth, is unsociable, it’s just that he so infrequently has other anglers around the places he prefers to fish. For 40 years Hudson has been a die hard basser, and the last 15 years he’s preferred to be seated in a kayak while he’s doing it. […]
The crappie tracking project aimed at learning more about crappie spawning areas began at Sardis Reservoir where biologists, who knew tons about the fish but not as much about fishing, ran into a problem with collecting enough fish for the study. […]
The most-commonly recommended techniques for catching mobile crappie in August are all trolling tactics — power trolling, tight-lining double minnow rigs and trolling crankbaits. […]
While following a bunch of radio transmitter-outfitted fish around all day might seem like an attempt at herding cats, Ole Miss graduate student Dylan Williams, who handled much of the legwork of the study, said it’s all in a day’s work. […]
Without a doubt, Mississippi’s crappie fisheries are an important natural resource. They are the backbone of a multi-million-dollar economy that impacts tourism, manufacturing, retail sales and a host of other state businesses. […]
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