Crappie/Bream
Hot crappie action on Okatibbee Lake
Joe and Mike Giles recently fishing at Okatibbee Lake and had their limit of crappie by 7:30 a.m. and had to start culling fish. […]
Okatibbee Lake
Crappie/Bream
Okatibbee Lake on fire
If you’re looking to catch a few crappie, then head to Okatibbee Lake this month. The fish are gobbling up jigs and minnows. […]
Crappie/Bream
Crappie ready to feed at Okatibbee Lake
Mike Giles and Ken Murphy caught a bunch of nice crappie on a fishing trip to Okatibbee Lake in late March. […]
Bass Fishing
Bass moving up at Lake Okatibbee
Although Lake Okatibbee wasn’t producing good bass for a while, in recent years, the lake has bounced back. Here’s the best way to fish there. […]
Bass Fishing
Mississippi’s February bass frolics
Slow down and fish the right baits, and February can be lunker city for bass fishermen on a handful of Mississippi lakes. […]
Crappie/Bream
Okatibbee crappie in February? Oh boy!
Okatibbee Lake is a winter crappie haven for Mississippi anglers. Slab crappie are getting ready for their big move and are there for the taking. […]
Bass Fishing
Okatibbee fun – This lake offers a lot of options
I’m picking Okatibbee just north of Meridian to fish in July because it offers an early morning topwater bite, a good mid-morning technique and a tactic we can use to finish off the day. […]
As Big As they Grow
Lesson learned – Long-lining jigs for crappie at Okatibbee Lake
OK, I admit it: I’m not nearly as mad at the crappie as I used to be. Officially, I’m a senior citizen, and the older I get the less trouble I have passing up a trip to the lake. […]
Bass Fishing
Bet on Okatibbee Lake for cold-weather fishing action
I enjoy fishing 4,144-acre Okatibbee Lake near Meridian during January. With its 28 miles of shoreline, the lake is an important feature in the development of the Pascagoula River Basin, a project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized by Congress in 1962 for flood reduction on 26,000 acres of residential, industrial and agricultural lands along Okatibbee Creek and the upper Chickasawhay River. […]
Crappie/Bream
Okatibbee Lake fish attractors packed with crappie
One of the great things about being a crappie angler is that you can learn your trade at any number of lakes across the country. Seasonal crappie fishing patterns remain pretty similar in a variety of places and typically work interchangeably across wide geographic areas.
Content
Spring Fling — Catching limits of crappie is the norm at Okatibbee Lake this month
Okatibbee Lake has changed over recent years, but not the reservoir’s incredible crappie fishing. Here’s how to fill the boat. […]
Bass Fishing
Late spawner turns out to be Okatibbee Lake record
Okatibbee Lake has garnered a reputation among many locals as The Big O, The Dead Sea and a few other less-desirable names, as it traditionally has been a tough place to catch bass. While the crappie population has thrived with thousands of limits of perch caught each year, catching bass has been a problem for all but the most-accomplished anglers.
But Mississippi State University Bass Club member Taylor Odom proved in May that the lake holds some beastly bass when he sank a hook into a lake-record fish — a 10-pounder that bested the old record by a solid pound. […]