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                                               Congratulations to Shane John-      before saw multiple 3+ pound
        PUBLISHER                            son and Scott Ryals; I couldn’t       fish caught, we know they’re still
                                                                                   there. Our hope for the future is
                                             find a better set of crappie an-
        Michael Nowell                       glers when it comes to the Mag-       that the MDWFP Biologist sees a
        President                            nolia Crappie Club. These guys        need to lower the creel limit and
                                             have gone above and beyond            increase the minimum size to 12
                                             the call of duty to support our       inches. We are grateful for the
        EDITOR                               club activities. Scott and Shane      11-inch minimum, but we ask
        Bernard Williams                     have made our live-fish weigh-        that Yo-Yo’s be banned and en-
        Vice-President                       ins work flawlessly. It feels good    forcement increased during peak
                                             to see men and women step up          spawning times.
        WRITERS                              and take charge when asked to          Grenada Lake is next on the
                                             do so.
        Michael Nowell,                        Thank you to Greenville /           schedule; we have our Big
                                                                                   Mama Open fundraiser at the
        President                            Washington County Tourism for         same time as our regular club
                                             their long-time support. This or-     tournament. We ask each tour-
        Paula Nowell,                        ganization has never disappoint-      nament team to participate in
        Secretary/Treasurer                  ed us, and we stand behind their  our Big Mama Open. It’s one
                                             efforts to bring                                 of two fundraising
        Stephen Turner,                      anglers to their                                 tournaments for our
        Weigh-Master                         great lake, Lake                                 Club Championship in
                                             Washington.                                      June. The more we
        Shane Johnson                          Another thank                                  raise, the more we
                                             you goes to Roy’s                                fish for in the Cham-
        William Smith                        Store and their                                  pionship.
                                             staff for providing                                Finally, I would like
        PHOTOGRAPHER                         excellent food and                               to thank our youth
        Bernard Williams                     lodging. We will                                 anglers for their con-
                                             continue to pro-                                 tinued support of our
        Contact us at:                       mote and support                                 club tournaments.
        magnoliacrappieclub@gmail.           their effort to bring                            Our goal is to grow
        com                                  crappie fishermen                                from within; the only
                                             to Lake Washington.                   way we can do that is raise our
        MCC Adventures Magazine                Lake Washington was at its          own anglers. Our youth anglers,
        is publication of Magnolia           peak spawn time. It is very           from my observations, seem to
        Crappie Club. No portion may                                               enjoy tournament fishing. When
        be reproduced without written        seldom that we can visit a lake       I see kids getting up two or
        permission. @Copyright 2021          at the perfect time. Saturday,        three hours before daylight to
        Photographs can be pur-              February 27th, was perfect            fish with their parents, I consider
        chased from Magnolia Crappie         timing. Our tournament hosted
        Club upon request.                   fifty-four (54) teams; our teams      that a significant feat.
                                             average six (6) fish with an           Continue to like and share our
        See our website for mem-             average weight of 9.60 pounds.        social media content. Please
        bership,rules or tournament          The average fish weight was           continue to encourage your
        schedules at:                        1.63 pounds. We weighed a total  friends to follow us on our social
        www.magnoliacrappieclub.com          of 324 fish with a total weight of    media sites. We’re living in a
                                             528.22 pounds.                        new technological age. We have
                                               Washington is a relatively          to embrace the new tools that
                                             small lake (3,000 acres). There       come available. Please help us
                                             is no way a lake that small could     promote our sponsors that sup-
                                             produce those numbers unless          port our club.
                                             it were extremely fertile. My          May God continue to bless
                                             survey concluded that a large         every one of you and keep us
                                             majority of our teams caught          safe from all hurt and danger
                                             upwards of 40+ fish.                  while we’re together and apart.
                                               While it’s true that we didn’t      See you at Grenada Lake and be
                                             see a 3+ pounder, the weeks           safe. Bernard

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