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? […]
John Harrison waded slowly until he was a pole’s reach of a flooded cypress tree before easing a jig into the knees and roots.
Wham! A Grenada Lake slab crappie nailed it. […]
Still a month and a half away from the spawn, crappie fishermen at Barnett Reservoir are already buzzing about what they feel could be one of the best springs ever on the 33,000-acre lake near Jackson. […]
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! […]
The crappie is a white-flesh fish caught in lakes and ponds. The meat is not easily frozen, so it is best cooked fresh. […]
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. […]
Tommy Hemphill has the perfect answer for an age-old question: Does it get too cold to crappie fish? […]
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. […]
From extremely popular oxbows to heavily fished state fishing lakes, state fisheries personnel have been busy stocking crappie to insure future fishing opportunities. […]
For Brad Whitehead, the appeal of sideways crappie fishing has a lot more applications than simply drifting with jigs trailing behind the boat. The guide admits that he catches plenty of big crappie in the conventional sense with side-pulling, but it doesn’t end there. […]
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. […]
Forget spring — Fishing guide Brad Whitehead believes there might be no better time to catch slab crappie at Lake Pickwick than right now. […]
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