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                                          Cheers to our MCC Members for          Open on Eagle Lake sponsored by
                                        finishing another season under           the City of Vicksburg and Visit Mis-
        PUBLISHER                       the COVID Pandemic. It’s been            sissippi. We’ve never had a major
        Michael Nowell                  a significant adjustment to deal         support step forward for Eagle Lake
        President                       with a deadly virus and enjoy our        like Vicksburg, and MS Tourism did
                                        comrade. I enjoy our group, from         for the coming year.
        EDITOR                          the kids to the elderly. We have an       Congratulations to Jeremy and
                                        incredible group. It’s been that way
        Bernard Williams                for 30 years.                            Clint for their 2nd MCC Champion-
        Vice-President                                                           ship win. I don’t care what nobody
                                          Our Board of                                               says; these guys
                                        Directors meet a                                             can catch fish.
        WRITERS                         week or so after the                                         They are superb
        Michael Nowell,                 championship and                                             ambassadors
        President                       made a few rule                                              to the crappie
                                        changes. The most                                            fishing world. I
        Paula Nowell,                   significant change                                           see great things
        Secretary/Treasurer             was allowing dead                                            in their future.
                                        fish to be weighed.                                          Jeremy and Clint
        Stephen Turner,                 Our thinking was                                             have two young
        Weigh-Master                    that if your fish                                            boys that I’m

        PHOTOGRAPHER                    dies at the end of a                                         sure will follow
        Bernard Williams                tournament, it’s not                                         in dad’s foot-
        Samantha McWilliams             fair to discard the                                          steps.
                                        fish. Go ahead and                                             My hats off
        Contact us at:                  weigh the fish with                                          to Michael and
        magnoliacrappieclub@gmail.      a penalty. The Bass                                          Paula Nowell;
        com                             guys have done this                                          they’ve held this
                                        for years.                               club together during a pandemic
        MCC Adventures Magazine           Another change we implemented          and helped grow it during lean
        is publication of Magnolia      is with the sponsorship program.
        Crappie Club. No portion may                                             times.
        be reproduced without written   For each $300 in sponsorship you          Fundraising is an art; you’ve got
        permission. @Copyright 2021     bring, you get a free tournament
        Photographs can be pur-         entry fee. We see this as a great        to play the game by the letter of
        chased from Magnolia Crappie    incentive to add new sponsors.           the law. Every penny has to be
        Club upon request.                                                       accounted for, and the books have
                                        Please remember that we can’t            to be in order. I commend Paula for
                                        advertise for another rod company;
        See our website for mem-                                                 keeping us legal all these years. It’s
        bership,rules or tournament     B’n’M has a sponsor exclusive.           no fun keeping up with a large sum
        schedules at:                     We set an excellent schedule. We       of money coming from many sourc-
        www.magnoliacrappieclub.com
                                        tried to move the dates around to        es. She does it with a breeze.
                                        take advantage of the spawn on            Please, keep encouraging the
                                        our big lakes. We can’t control the      youth to fish with us. We need
                                        weather, especially in the spring.       them to continue for another 30
                                        We can set our tournament dates          years. Last but not least, keep pray-
                                        when we think the lakes are at their     ing for our safety on and off the
                                        prime.                                   water. See you at Wolf Lake.

                                          Since the major circuits cut their      Be Blessed,
                                        tournament down, we didn’t have
                                        to worry about scheduling conflicts.      Bernard
                                        We also scheduled a Big Mama





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