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Honey Badgers

Few Mississippi game fish are as predictable as crappie. In the spring they spawn about the time the dogwoods bloom. It’s sufficient to say the greatest number of crappie caught each year are hooked during the progressive spawning season. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Bay Springs Site Office

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Site Office is located on the east side of Bay Springs Lake just off of MS Highway 4 in Tishomingo County. The staff from this office is responsible for the operation of the navigation, recreation and natural resources along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway from Amory to Pickwick Lake on the Tennessee River. […]

Freshwater Fishing

Fake crickets get real results

Saltwater anglers long ago accepted that the Berkley line of soft plastics known as Gulp and Gulp Alive are just about as close to live bait as they will ever be able to get without having to wait in the bait line before blasting off. […]

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Truth be Told

There’s a saying in the U.S. Army that you can tell a soldier is lying if he starts his story with, “This ain’t no #@!%.” That’s why my military intelligence started tingling like Spidey sense when Trace State Park Lake Ranger Jeff Rosamond began telling me how good the bream fishing was in this 600-acre lake located near Tupelo. […]

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Crappie hotspot: Bay Springs Lake

Bay Springs Lake, also known as the Jamie L. Whitten Lock and Dam, is the northernmost lake on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Located off Highway 4 near the town of Dennis in Mississippi’s Hill Region, the 6,700 acres of water and 133 miles of shoreline that make up Bay Springs provide crappie anglers with loads of slab crappie that are often overlooked by anglers on their way to bigger lakes.

Our guide this month is the owner/operator of Honey Hole Guide Service, Charlie Kent. Born and raised in Baldwyn, Kent has been fishing the crappie-infested waters of Bay Springs since the lake was created by the Corps of Engineers in 1979. […]

As Big As they Grow

Snakebit

What happened to that bad winter we were supposed to have? Didn’t the local weather gurus promise one of the coldest winters last fall? I’m not complaining, mind you. And I know you fishermen aren’t either. Talk about some really great wintertime fishing — boy, this has been nice! […]

Freshwater Fishing

The crappie spawn

Mississippi’s river lakes and reservoirs provide excellent crappie fishing. Most crappie fisheries contain both black and white crappie, and the whites usually outnumber the blacks. Biologists know the basic biology of crappie and have made great strides forward to manage them. Yet, many questions remained unanswered. […]

Crappie/Bream

Crappie under cover

Veteran guide John Harrison looks forward to fishing Grenada during the spring spawn more than any other time of the year. The spawn is a time when he can catch fish on their own turf, going hand-to-hand with the monster crappie that are home to the lake. […]