Quick trip to Okatibee

After church this morning I talked dad into making a quick trip to tibby. We stay 2.5 hours and ended up with 14. Dad has the grease popping as I type this. Can't wait to get a belly full of these cold water crappie. Water temp was 46.5 and fish were 11 foot deep over 13-20 foot of water. No real pattern other than they wanted anything with Chartruse. Electric Chicken was my favorite today. Oh, out the itty bitty, my dad wont cull nothing at Okatibee. He loves small ones fried crisp.
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LOOKS GOOD TO ME . GONNA MAKE ME a trip over there this year .

Congrats on yalls catch and you got to spend time with your dad!

We will be camping a whole week from March 7-14. Come then and I'm sure between ScottV an myself we can put you on some fish.

That one is a stud

Nice

I cant wait to get over there next weekend.

Good catch!

Nice haul for a couple hours

Way to go, the chartreuse was the color yesterday morning also. I think when they dropped the water in the lake all the crappie headed for the deep water in the creek, by the dam. I never caught a fish deeper than 10 ft but in about 15 ft of water.
I'm gonna be camping the week before you get there. I'll be leaving on the 7th.

Brain you let you daddy take a lot more of the dinks out, Scott has gotten where he likes the little ones whole too. Carol only likes the fillets unless it is bream then she likes them whole, wish I knew where and how to catch bream.

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Originally Posted by SteveJ

Brain you let you daddy take a lot more of the dinks out, Scott has gotten where he likes the little ones whole too. Carol only likes the fillets unless it is bream then she likes them whole, wish I knew where and how to catch bream.

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I can put you on some this summer. You guys should have some at Okatibbee, maybe not giants but good eaters. Neshoba County Lake is not far from you guys and I bet it's full of them.

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Originally Posted by feeshrman

I can put you on some this summer. You guys should have some at Okatibbee, maybe not giants but good eaters. Neshoba County Lake is not far from you guys and I bet it's full of them.

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Didn't you catch a lot of nice bream up there last year? When they start back up let Scott or I know and lets set up a trip, we need all the help we can get. Have caught some in Okatibbee but they are small, every now and then a fair size shellcracker.

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Originally Posted by SteveJ

Brain you let you daddy take a lot more of the dinks out, Scott has gotten where he likes the little ones whole too. Carol only likes the fillets unless it is bream then she likes them whole, wish I knew where and how to catch bream.

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I blessed to have grown up in the Pearl River swamp in Philadelphia. Our deer camp land is littered with slews and old creeks that a full of bream, perch(mostly small ones) and bass. That is where I catch most of my bream at. It has always been tough to find big bream on large bodies of water(except Washington). I guess one of my favorite ways to fish is throwing a beatle spin with a minicast and catching a big blue bream.

I caught most of those at Kemper Steve, they are big but finicky. The best eating ones come from the Pearl river area like Macpappy said. Their are countless bream beds in the Ratliff Ferry area just above the Ross Barnett Resivoir which are easy to fish. I grew up catching those swamp bream up near the Nanih Waiya Indian mound, the creek is small there and you've got to fight snakes, and drag over logs and beaver dams to get to them. I like to use a 10' pole and a tiny balsa wood cork, my next favorite is on an ultra light.

A Kemper trip or Ratliff Ferry trip would be easy and fun. I will do some checking on Neshoba Lake cause that's a little closer to you guys.

Very nice

Now that I live in Madison I fish Ratliff ferry a good bit and you are right, when the bream are right its easy.

Chris and Brian, whenever the bream get right let me know, I think I can talk Scott into taking me to either place.