I used to own a camp near Grenada lake a few years back but sold it. It was fun fishing there but the word here is that live scope fishing has ruined that lake.
I live two minutes from the ross barnett and fish it several times a week. I will catch two or three 16 inches and up every year but...
The corp of engineer lakes along interstate 55 are great lakes to catch really big fish from although you can not catch big number of fish, ( Grenada, sardis, Enid and arkabutla). I fish the ross barnett reservoir near jackson mississippi often. I only live 1.5 miles from the lake. It is not...
Those are some beautiful fish. How long were some of your biggest fish. We get to fish here in mississippi year round and consider anything over 12 inches long a good fish. In some of the lakes here they have to be over 12 inches to keep them. You have some great eating. Congratulations.
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