Bass Fishing
Fish Pickwick for big numbers of July bass
Pickwick Lake is great in the summer for big numbers of largemouth, spotted and smallmouth bass. Here’s some lures you should fish there. […]
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Bass Fishing
Pickwick’s smallmouth equation
Pickwick Lake is Mississippi’s top fishery for smallmouth bass. Here’s how to catch them. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish Pickwick for rod-bending December bass
How to catch nice-sized largemouths, big smallmouths, white bass, stripers and hybrids all in the same day at Pickwick Lake in December. […]
Bass Fishing
Pickwick Lake offers Mississippi anglers unusual post-spawn opportunities
An obvious key to successfully bass fishing on a post-spawn pattern at Pickwick Lake, or any water for that matter, is knowing in what phase of the spawn the largemouth and smallmouth are at any given time. […]
Bass Fishing
Pickwick Lake’s bass bonanza
Catching 30 to 50 bass per day is what you can expect in November on Pickwick Lake, which corners Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee and should be one of the hottest lakes in all those states this month. […]
Bass Fishing
Fish Pickwick Lake for 30 May bass per day
Pickwick bass fishing can’t get any better than in May. From only two or three schools of bass, you may catch 30 or more bass per day. If rising water happens, the bass will be in this newly inundated water in the grass, bushes and trees. About the middle of May, the bass will be pulling out of the creeks and staging at their mouths or in the cuts and ditches in the flats leading to the river channel. At the end of May, I’ll look for bass out on the main river channel. […]
Catfish
Pickwick Lake has the blues
The Arkansas blue cat is just at home in Mississippi as it is in it’s native state, and nowhere in the Magnolia State is that more true than at Pickwick Lake. […]
Bass Fishing
Pickwick Lake bass fishing turns on in this month
You must understand water levels and temperatures to find and catch April pre-spawn and post-spawn bass at Pickwick Lake.
But if you know what type of bank and structure to look for and what baits to use you’ll catch more and bigger bass. […]
Bass Fishing
Stairway to heaven — Tips for Pickwick Lake bass fishing
Telling a dancer to “work on those steps” might come across rather crass, but on Pickwick Lake, that’s just sensible advice for fall bass fishing. […]
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Early season trolling for catfish at Pickwick Lake
When the name “Pickwick” is heard in general fishing conversation, it’s generally in context with the great smallmouth bass fishing or tremendous crappie fishery that’s contained in the lake. Say the word “catfish” and most anglers think they misunderstood you. […]
Freshwater Fishing
Crappie Hotspots – Pickwick Lake
Located at the most-northern reach of the Tom-Bigbee Waterway, Pickwick Lake is synonymous with crappie fishing to many anglers in the tri-state areas of Northeast Mississippi, Northwest Alabama, and Southern Tennessee.
Pickwick’s clear waters are in stark contrast to most of Mississippi’s other notable crappie lakes, but its reputation as a slab crappie fishery is well earned.
As cooler weather settles in for the season, two things occur that help crappie anglers hone in on their favorite game fish. With flood control as one of the lake’s primary objectives, the Tennessee Valley Authority begins drawing the impoundment down to winter pool. In reaction to both the receding and cooling water, crappie tend to congregate along the main channels of Pickwick’s major tributaries. […]
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Crappie Hotspots – Pickwick Lake
Located at the most-northern reach of the Tom-Bigbee Waterway, Pickwick Lake is synonymous with crappie fishing to many anglers in the tri-state areas of Northeast Mississippi, Northwest Alabama, and Southern Tennessee.
Pickwick’s clear waters are in stark contrast to most of Mississippi’s other notable crappie lakes, but its reputation as a slab crappie fishery is well earned.
As cooler weather settles in for the season, two things occur that help crappie anglers hone in on their favorite game fish. With flood control as one of the lake’s primary objectives, the Tennessee Valley Authority begins drawing the impoundment down to winter pool. In reaction to both the receding and cooling water, crappie tend to congregate along the main channels of Pickwick’s major tributaries. […]