Mississippi Fishing Report
Ross Barnett Reservoir Sponsored by
| Date | 18-Apr-24 | |
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: Ross Barnett Reservoir: Bass fishing has been fair. Bass are in the shallows and the bite should pick up as the water stabilizes. Try throwing hollow body frogs, chatterbaits, and Texas rigged lizards right at the shorelines. Crappie fishing is good and should really start to pick up this week. Anglers have been targeting crappie along the spillway rocks and near the grass on the Rankin County side. Try starting out shallow and working out with hair jigs or live minnows. Bream fishing has been slow with few anglers targeting bream. Try targeting bream around cypress trees and vegetation with crickets or worms. Catfishing has been fair. Try tightlining or running jugs with kool-aid soaked chicken or cut bait. Reported by: MDWFP |
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| About: -
Lake Ross Barnett is one of our best known big bream lakes. Large bluegill and
redear sunfish make this lake a popular attraction to anglers. In spring 2005,
the average weight of bream kept by anglers was 0.5 pounds. The average weight
in other agency-owned fishing lakes is 0.4 pounds. A high percentage (67%) of
anglers came to fish strictly for bream, and anglers kept 77% of the bream
caught. Small largemouth bass are numerous and anglers are encouraged to harvest bass that are 10-14 inches long. During spring 2005, bass anglers kept only 18% of the bass that were caught and the average weight was 0.7 pounds. This is well below the average weight for harvested bass in other agency-owned lakes (1.7 pounds). The majority of anglers (49%) during the spring of 2005 were from Smith and Covington Counties. Jones County anglers made up 16% and 10% were from Simpson County. The remaining 35% came from five other Mississippi counties and 4% came from out-of-state. There are 4 fish attractor buoys at this lake. Christmas trees have been placed around each buoy. These attractors are great places to fish for crappie in the cooler months of the year. |
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