No GoGo's for These White Perch.......Vertical Hook Delivery Today!

Jourdan River was a bit lethargic today or I should say you had to work your jig like you were lethargic to get a bite. Nevertheless, bites I got from Blacks & Whites. Some were 14 inches, one was 15 inches, but the most were 11 inch to 12 inch, the fish I kept. Numerous shorts were around eating jigs they had no business trying to eat. No room for the needle-nose pliers to remove the hook safely. Our river water is nasty but fishable so why stay home. 1/4 mile to the ramp here and 10 minutes idling out the subdivision and you're catching.

I can see some diced up Slabs going under the Charbroiler in the very near future!

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Awesome. Congratulations on a fine outing

Nice mess

Your making me hungry for some blackened river crappies ,,,Wtg John!

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Your making me hungry for some blackened river crappies ,,,Wtg John!

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I have been informed by my better half that Ketchn's Baked Potato Chip (Utz Crab Chip) coated fillets will be cooked first with Hollandaise. She wants a meal now and another in a week. She loves the Baked Potato Chip Crusted Fillets over Pasta. Thought I would dice up some for a Charbroiled Appetizer too, just Butter-Garlic-Sea Salt-Grated Parmesan to hold everything together on a fork..........

Nice box of fish . Congrats :cheers2

Dude,,,your killing me here,,I love a finely cooked fish,,,,the potato chip coating sounds amazing

rojouio, silverroach here. Really like the post on the rivers in South Mississippi.
I was wondering if you were also a native of the area? I grew up fishing all those rivers you are fishing other than the Biloxi never fished it. I now reside in Alabama due to work. Was wondering have you been since first of January. Went a couple of weeks ago to Pascagoula River but it was high and rising. Did do much. Are you mainly fishing using Livescope technology?


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rojouio, silverroach here. Really like the post on the rivers in South Mississippi.
I was wondering if you were also a native of the area? I grew up fishing all those rivers you are fishing other than the Biloxi never fished it. I now reside in Alabama due to work. Was wondering have you been since first of January. Went a couple of weeks ago to Pascagoula River but it was high and rising. Did do much. Are you mainly fishing using Livescope technology?

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I use Panoptix the original version of live sonar. I do not use it like Livescope users normally do, only to measure distance to structure. Winter bites are so lite that watching anything other than your line and rod tip will cause you to miss the bite completely. That being said the Pascagoula River suffers from excess runoff like the Pearl River. The Tchoutacabouffa River is closer to you than the Biloxi River but both are short, deep, structure rich waterways. How I catch fish is mainly Sidescan Sonar the rivers locating good sized piles of submerged trees, old wharf structures, etc. I Vertical jig these structures with small jigs using a 1/10 BPS Clamshot weight about 5ft above my jig. The Clamshot will sink faster than your jig so I slowly sink my rig so it doesn't tangle on the way down. Once down I very slowly raise and lower my jig around the structure, very slowly. When you're raising the rod it will bend or lower your jig and the line doesn't sink you got a bite. I only move it around a foot, no more. I've been here over 30 years, native enough to fill a cooler............I hope you find this helpful.

Fellow I truly appreciate the insight. I have been fishing as long as I can remember. It’s the one true hobby once I go I am 100% focused. I have always crappie fished (white perch) as down south people call them. But I didn’t start 100% focusing on them till about the year 2000. I recall my very first pan fishing trip back around 1963 and been hooked since. I still till this day have folks who call asking where can they go catch fish and what method to use. Just a few months ago I was staying up on the Alabama delta waters had a couple from Mississippi to come in that had a group coming in for the weekend. I noticed they had crappie rigs. So we talked they fished with no success. I would go in the afternoons after work with success. I would tell them where to go and even rig their rods. Still no success for them. I finally went that Saturday morning before the rest of their family came in while they were fishing a bass tournament and caught them some 12-15 inchers for a meal for their family. Their question were how did you do this, my answer “you got to give the fish what they want that day that hour that moment and they will change.

Nor for Technology it is somewhat of a mystery to me but I have a Garmin Echo 93SV that helps me mainly find structure and bait fish. As with you I think at some point I will purchase the pan optics or Livescope just to help me find the depth and distance of the fish. I am kind of old school. Don’t enjoy looking at a computer screen all day as I do enough of that every evening finishing up work. But I see it’s place to help fisherman. I hope we can continue to talk. I don’t get on very often and I am in the Alabama group. Look forward to additional chats headed out later today and then again Monday if we can find water right. Would love to get your insight on tide fishing and your thoughts when they bite better.


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So I use a regular Echomap 93sv to Sidescan with. Once you see a likely prospect of trees or structure using a Fishfinder on the bow, preferably with a GPS to mark it with when on top but not necessary. Set the Fish Finder to 2D (Color) with a combination output like 83/200 or 50/200 whatever your fish Finder combination settings are possible, also turn on the "A Scope" or I forget what Humminbird call it but the real time sonar RTS window. Troll using your trolling motor right on top of the Structure till you see it in the A-Scope or RTS window. Vertical fish right down the side of your trolling motor. You will be on top of the Structure as long as you keep it in the A-Scope or RTS window. I can't teach presentation over the internet but my description of presentation above fills my coolers every trip. I do not post all the fish I catch as then I will look like Ketchn. Read what he posts as there is Gold in his ramblings about presentation, technique, etc.

BTW The PS22TR Panoptix Transducer was designed to work with a regular 92sv-95sv standard definition. No Echomap Plus or Ultra is needed.

Again thanks for the info. Maybe when I am around Mississippi Gulf Coast we can connect. If you ever want to come over to the Alabama Delta and jerk some paper lips let me know. To be honest I have been moved here from Mississippi since 1993. I made a commitment a few years ago to learn these fishing waters better. Truth is I finally got it a few years back. These waters are much more challenging than the Mississippi waters you are fishing. I still keep and fish more in Mississippi as I get more fillets over there. As a matter of a fact I have one honey hole over there that I only keep about 5 or 6 fish as one or two is all me and my wife can eat. It’s closer to my native home town of Purvis Mississippi.
Also locals definition of slabs here is very different from over there. I haven’t really figured out how to add photos to this sight yet. But if you will send me a way to share with you I would love that. Again your wisdom is priceless.


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