Page 27 - 2020 MCC Grenada Spring Issue

Magnolia Crappie Club Adventures Magazine
From the Rabbit Hole - Rabbit Rogers

Mighty Grenada Strikes Again!

If anybody was wondering about this Terry fished in the main lake on the
fishery losing it’s attraction for big fish Yalobusha side in 26 feet of water fishing
(forget it!), It’s still the best fishery for about 4 to 8 ft. deep with a B’n’M pole.
big monster crappie in the nation. How He said the fish were spooky and scat-
about Terry Stewart exposing the Big tered, so you had to find a big fish and
Mama’s, seven fish that weighed an as- run it down and pitch out to it. Most Pan-
tonishing 21.17 lbs. optic fishermen stand
(a Magnolia Crappie up, so pitching is easer,
Club Record and I but Terry does it sitting
think a National Re- down. Terry, all I can do
cord for seven crap- is, I tip my hat to you
pie). Terry, fishing (wow!).
with his daughter
(Terra), not only What other out-
won the tournament door activity can you
and big fish but won enjoy more than fishing
the Big Mama Open for crappie. Combine
with a 3.83 lb. Fe- that with competing in
male. In fact, Terry a tournament, and it’s
caught two females quite a thrill! I’ve been
that (3.83 lbs.) tied at it since 1984, and it
for Big Mama. never gets old (only you
do!). Sometimes you
I’ve never have to suffer the agony
seen that much ex- of- defeat, but there is
citement at a weigh- always another tourna-
in. At a weigh-in, ment down the road,
everybody is already and you try to redeem.
anxious to see what
the heaviest weighs Redeem, to me,
are? If you were not impressed at this means getting into the top 15 and get-
weigh-in with these heavy seven fish ting a check. With 60 to 70 teams at
weights and lots of 3 pounds plus crap- tournaments, it’s not easy, but nothing is
pie, you can’t be impressed. easy!
Good Luck!

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