Fish in a Barrel

There may be easier places to catch fish during the winter than the Ross Barnett spillway, but these two crappie anglers don’t think so.

Every angler who has ever wet a hook has an idea of the perfect place to catch fish. For some, it might be a private farm pond, for others it may be a secret set of coordinates out in the Gulf. The one thing these perfect places have in common is that when you go there, you catch fish.

Bernard Williams is a veteran crappie angler who fishes all over the state with the Magnolia Crappie Club and across the country while competing in national tournament trails. His perfect place, when it comes to wintertime fishing for crappie, is behind Ross Barnett Reservoir. Particularly, he’s speaking of the Pearl River after it exits the “Rez” below the spillway.

“It’s just too easy,” says Williams, who operates Central Mississippi Guide Service along with his fishing partner Don Terry. “When they open those gates at the spillway, crappie get sucked out of Barnett and washed into the spillway. It’s just like fishing in a pond right after it’s been stocked. For the first mile or two of the river behind the spillway, crappie are behind every tree, every stick up and every piece of cover on the bottom of the river.”Click here to read more on Fish in a Barrel

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Phillip Gentry is a freelance outdoor writer and photographer who says that if it swims, walks, hops, flies or crawls he’s usually not too far behind.

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