Page 3 - 2020 MCC Sardis Issue

Magnolia Crappie Club Adventures Magazine
Sardis in the winter can be hit-
or-miss fishing, all you need is a
PUBLISHER cold-front, high-pressure or a win-
Michael Nowell ter-time rain. The fish will turn off
President like a faucet. That’s what happened
on Saturday, February 1st. Pre-fish-
EDITOR ing was excellent. Huge strings of
2-pound-plus crappie. That’s the
Bernard Williams Sardis, I know. Ask any of the locals,
Vice-President Sardis can be brutal in the winter.
I can remember several years ago;
WRITERS you could catch a double limit before
Michael Nowell, 9 am. Vic Finkley says, “I hated to
President go up there, could stay long before
I’d have my 15 fish limit.” Now,
Paula Nowell, Vic, that’s a good problem to have.
Secretary/Treasurer Nobody had that
problem Saturday.
Stephen Turner, What most fish-
Weigh-Master ermen don’t under-
stand is, on tourna-
Rabbit Rogers ment day, when you
Charter Member have 30 to 40 boats
in a location, each
PHOTOGRAPHER boat with two or
Bernard Williams more depth finders
beeping. That causes the fish to
Contact us at: get spooky. Spooky fish are fearful;
magnoliacrappieclub@gmail. they’re not in the biting mood. I try
com
my best to avoid areas with high
boat traffic. My question is, would
MCC Adventures Magazine you be hungry and comfortable on
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The Livescopers caught fish; they
Photographs can be pur-
chased from Magnolia Crappie targeted specific fish and placed
Club upon request. their bait on the nose of the fish.
Grenada Lake Charters Guide, Carlos
See our website for mem- Willis, says, “On Friday, I could have
bership,rules or tournament weighed almost 15 pounds and I
schedules at: didn’t fish them hard. Saturday was
www.magnoliacrappieclub.com
like a different day. The fish was a
lot shallower and a lot more spooky.
I had to put the bait on their nose to
get a bite.”
The next lake on our schedule
is Big Bad Grenada, “Home of the
Three-Pound Crappie.” Springtime on
Grenada is one of the most sought
after lakes in the country. It also
can be a hit-or-miss lake. I’ve seen
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huge stringers come out of Grenada.
Twenty-pound stringers are not un-
common for Grenada in the spring.
It will take some work and practice
to do good on Grenada, but it can
happen.
We had seventy-three (73)
boats fish our Sardis tournament.
That’s amazing; it’s a new club
record. I can remember when we
broke the fifty (50) boat limit. We
were in awe, no way in the world a
little on crappie club from Central
MS could draw 50 boats, but we did
it. I see nothing but growth for us
in the future. It doesn’t’ matter how
many boats we grow to in the
future; we’re still going to be a
family-oriented club. Our kids
are what matters, they’re our
future and we’ll continue to put
them first.
Please remember, we have
a Big Mama Open in conjunc-
tion with our regular-season
tournament. Our BMO’s are
the only fundraiser we have for
our end of season Championship
Tournament. The more participants
the more we fish for at the end of
the year. So if you don’t enter the
BMO, then don’t complain about the
Championship Payouts.
We have rules in place to
make sure everyone gets a fair
chance in our tournaments. It takes
our entire group to make sure every-
one follows the rules. So, if you see
something, say something. Take a
photo; pictures don’t lie. Our tour-
nament officials will follow through
with each protest submitted.
It’s only three tournaments
left in the 2020 season. We’re taking
the top-50 to the Championship.
Any team that near the 50th place in
the B’n’M AOY Points Race needs to
fish hard and not miss any tourna-
ments.
Thank you for your participa-
tion, be safe, be courteous, and my
God bless and keep you. Bernard