Flooded Fantasy

Bailey Robinson shows off two Okatibbee Lake slabs caught on a jig and grub.

These flood-control lakes offer everything a growing crappie — and those who target them — could want.

Mike Heard handed his dad a jig and cork rig attached to a crappie pole, and quickly began fishing for the succulent white perch. No sooner had the pair gotten their rigs into the water than the action began. Both father and son were soon hoisting some nice slab-sized “pan fries” into the boat and in the “supper well.”

Their day had begun with a bang, and the action never subsided for very long during the fishing trip.Click here to read more on Flooded Fantasy

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Mike Giles of Meridian has been hunting and fishing Mississippi since 1965. He is an award-winning wildlife photographer, writer, seminar speaker and guide.

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