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Magnolia Crappie Club Adventures Magazine
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Bernard Williams
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2 - Adventures Magazine - MCC Barnett Fall 2022 Issue
Magazine
We’re one tournament away from
being halfway through the season.
Barnett was adventurous, tough, and
rewarding for some. Team Jeffries,
Hayden, and Dan did it again. It’s not
like it was a surprise, they’re tough to
beat on any lake and Barnett is their
home lake. Hayden and Dan grew up
fishing there. It’s not much you can
tell them about the Rez. When you’ve
located 30+ brush piles all over the
lake, all you got to do is find out what’s
on the crappie food
menu.
According to
Hayden, it was a
combination of min-
nows and jigs. The
Jeffries guys are not
above using live bait,
I can’t blame them
for using everything
legal to catch the
huge slabs. Hayden
swears by the South-
ern Chase Crappie
Jigs. They look awe-
some, I’ve never used them but I think
that’s going to be another item for me
to spend my money on.
Hayden has another excellent coach
besides Dan, veteran long-liner Brad
Chappell. Hayden works for Brad in
his assembly business. They’re around
each other daily when Hayden’s not
in school at Mississippi College. That
makes three jobs Hayden has, school,
work, and fishing. I think the fishing is
paying as much as the assembly job.
Hayden and Dan are easy to talk
to, they’re very humble and down to
earth. Dan and Mrs. Jeffries have done
an excellent job of raising those boys. I
have tremendous admiration for young
men that pulls their pants above their
butts, respect their elders, and don’t
mind working for a living. MCC is full
of those types of kids. It’s one of the
reasons I don’t mind giving my services
to this club. Seeing young kids grow
from little ones to teens then to men
and women is all the pay I want.
Fishing tournaments are always
challenging, we had something happen
to us Saturday morning that I’ve never
seen before. Don’s Ranger Trailer broke
where the swing away connects. We
turned into Tommy’s and got out, low
and behold the tongue was broken and
almost dragging the ground. I have
to say thank you to Bob, Bill, David,
Lance, Aubrey, Chad, and
my cousin Antoine for
coming to our rescue.
My first question to Don
was what are we going to
do? He said we’re going
fishing, we’ll worry about
that at 2 pm. I called my
cousin and asked him to
bring a tractor pin, Bill
and Bob loaned me a
floor jack, we jacked it up
and put a pin in where it
had sheered the old pin
and we headed down
the Trace as nothing had happened. It
did not affect Don the entire day, on
the other hand, I could not focus. I
only caught 1 fish, Don caught 11. It’s
called T-e-a-m-w-o-r-k.
Special thanks to the Ridgeland Tour-
ism Commission, PRVWSD, and the
Reservoir Police Department for all they
did to make our tournament successful.
Thanks to Pelican Cove Restaurant and
its staff for our registration venue. We
looked like a big-time fishing group,
all the boats, contestants, and specta-
tors.
It’s on to Okatibbee, lets show our
support for the Lauderdale Tourism
Commission, Visit Meridian, and the
merchants in Meridian. This lake is full
of fish, any technique you choose to
fish should be productive. See y’all at
the lake. Bernard