Jackson, MS
Arkansas · Alabama · Mississippi · Freshwater
White River trout, Mississippi crappie lakes, Coosa spotted bass and Delta catfish.
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Main targets
Largemouth Bass
Micropterus salmoides
Ambush predators of warm, weedy water. Bass reward anglers who fish cover precisely and slow down when the sun is high.
Black Crappie
Pomoxis nigromaculatus
A speckled, paper-mouthed panfish that suspends over brush and timber in clear lakes and sloughs. Crappie bite small jigs and minnows delicately — the strike is often just a slight heaviness.
Bluegill
Lepomis macrochirus
The classic beginner's panfish: abundant, willing and surprisingly strong on light tackle. Bluegill nest in colonies on shallow flats in spring and guard the beds aggressively.
Channel Catfish
Ictalurus punctatus
The most widespread catfish in North America, at home in rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Channel cats find bait by scent and taste, bite readily after dark, and are the backbone of pay-lake and river catfishing.
Flathead Catfish
Pylodictis olivaris
A solitary, big-river predator that ignores stink baits and eats live fish instead. Flatheads hide in log jams and deep holes by day and hunt sunfish and bullheads at night.
Blue Catfish
Ictalurus furcatus
North America's biggest catfish — a slate-blue, open-water hunter of big rivers and reservoirs, from Chesapeake trophy holes to Texas winter flats.
White Crappie
Pomoxis annularis
The crappie of warm, fertile reservoirs — a schooling, minnow-eating panfish that swarms brush piles each spring from Texas to the Midwest.
Sauger
Sander canadensis
The walleye's river-running cousin — a spotted, bottom-hugging predator of big turbid rivers, and a cold-season staple from the Mississippi to the Saskatchewan.
Bowfin
Amia calva
A living fossil of the swamps — a long-finned, air-breathing brawler that guards its nest like a pit bull and thrives where nothing else can.
Landlocked Striped Bass
Morone saxatilis
The coastal striper gone inland — stocked giants that herd shad across big reservoirs from Texoma to Santee-Cooper and Mead, and America's favourite landlocked big fish.
Redear Sunfish
Lepomis microlophus
The 'shellcracker' — a bottom-grinding sunfish that crushes snails over shell beds, grows heavier than any other panfish, and fills spring stringers from Florida to Lake Havasu.
Spotted Bass
Micropterus punctulatus
The largemouth's river-loving cousin — spotted bass school on rocky points and current seams from Georgia to the Ozarks, hit small baits with total commitment, and pull like smallmouth.
Longnose Gar
Lepisosteus osseus
A living fossil with a needle beak — longnose gar hang like sticks in warm weedy shallows from the Great Lakes to Texas, gulp air at the surface, and ambush anything that drifts past.
Alligator Gar
Atractosteus spatula
A river giant from another age — alligator gar are the largest gar, broad-snouted ambush predators of Texas and Louisiana backwaters that can top 100 lb. Cut bait under a float in still, warm sloughs is the classic method.
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