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Fall fishing is fun for everyone
Can you believe it? September is here. Dove season is upon us. And, as you know, dove season ushers in the ever-popular deer-hunting season.
Articles by Paul Johnson
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Cranking productivity
For more and more crappie anglers, summer fishing includes pulling crankbaits. Granted, for the few hardcore crankers, summer comes two to three months into our cranking season. […]
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What tournaments can teach you
The Magnolia Crappie Club fished our 23rd annual state championship the last weekend in May. Thirty-seven teams qualified by fishing in seven out of our nine regular-season tournaments, and competed for bragging rights and over $20,000 in cash prize money in a two-day event held on Sardis and Enid Reservoirs. […]
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Testing the limits of crankbaits
Mother Nature has certainly played some tricks on us for the last several months, causing crappie fishermen to scratch their heads more than a time or two. […]
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Crappie fishing explodes
What a great spring season for monster — I mean as big as they grow — slab crappie here in Mississippi.
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Tournament fishing 101
If you’re a regular reader of this monthly column you know that I love to tournament fish for crappie. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Eagle Lake restoration example of effective partnerships
The Magnolia Crappie Club, in cooperation with MDWFP, undertook a massive lake-restoration project back in 2006 at Eagle Lake. Let me tell you about it. […]
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Crappie head to spawning grounds
Finally, we’re breaking out of a record cold and miserable Mississippi winter, and we’re looking at spring right around the corner. Snow and frozen interstates in South Mississippi? Frozen pipes and a few frozen lakes and ponds? Sixteen days in a row — a Mississippi record — where temps didn’t get above freezing in Central Mississippi? […]
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Crappie do bite in the cold
Can you believe it? It’s 2014 — ready or not. We’re right smack-dab in the middle of a January cold front as I write February’s column. Baby, it’s cold outside! […]
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Crappie crazed
All I want for Christmas is a pair of 600-gram Thinsulate, waterproof boots. Yep, it’s after Christmas by the time you read this, but, right now, before Christmas, I’ve been asked several times by my family members what I want for Christmas. […]
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Target: Old Muddy oxbows
HO-HO-HO. Merry Christmas. Can you believe it? We’re into deer season, duck hunting is right around the corner, Christmas is upon us and I’m going crappie fishing every chance I get. […]
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Tournament time
This month’s crappie column will report the results of two recent big crappie tournaments, both held on Grenada Reservoir — and I’ll try to get back to Cranking Basics 101 that I started last month for next month’s column. […]