Grenada Lake in Mississippi is known for big crappie, but it is an open lake and the wind can play havoc with the fishing if you don’t know how to handle it. I was there to fish with Brandon Fulgham, a local guide with plenty of experience with the wind on Grenada.
Like a lot of other anglers, Fulgham does not like dead slick calm water. “I think when you get dead calm, no wind at all, I think the fish can see you better and hear you better. They hear your trolling motor, they hear a live well running, and they hear any boat noise better when it’s calm. I like a little ripple on the water, it kind of disguise things, covers you up. It doesn’t make the water seem like a big mirror reflecting everything.”
Our plan for the day was to spider rig the flats for some big Grenada crappie. We were fishing his 22-foot Ranger boat. “I love a Ranger boat to fish for crappie, stated Fulgham. It is heavy and it sets low to the water. It doesn’t make your poles bounce up and down real hard like some boats do. When you get waves that make your poles go up and down, up and down, it makes it hard to catch fish. Those baits are just jumping up and down in the water column too hard. That’s why I fish out of the Ranger, the stability of it, the weight of it.”It did not take long to realize we would have to contend with the wind. “We have a NE wind today and the lake has a little roll to it,” commented Fulgham. “I never like calm, because of the noise, but with too much wind gives you waves sloshing on the hull, especially on aluminum boats. Wave slap will spook the crappie away from your poles.”
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