Magnolia Fly Fishers photo album

Chad Johnson, Alaska, 2007

Tommy Shropshire,20+ inch Yellowstone Cutthroat at Nez Perce Ford (also known as Buffalo Ford) in Yellowstone National Park... Yellowstone River of course --- 10/12/07

Jim Watson, GI Weekend '07, 19" Sheepshead 7/14/07

Albert Wood, GI Weekend '07 7/14/07

Albert Wood, GI Weekend '07 7/14/07

Bickham Forshee, GI Weekend '07 7/14/07

Chad Johnson, Port Sulphur, Spring'07

Don Davis of Breambugs.com, Nice bass on Accardo popper 6/2/07

Be Careful what you "fish" for, Chuck Wilder caught this bass fishin for crappie, March '07

Tommy Shropshire with Brown trout in Arkansas, March '07

Jim Derryberry with 16" brown trout caught on the Provo in Utah, March '07

Rick Lauman with an October zilla!

Judith Forshee with Norfork Rainbow

Judith Forshee, wife of our esteemed president, with a Norfork rainbow on a recent trip. Now ya'll take a tip from Judith and wear that Magnolia Fly Fisher cap when you send in a photo, also, only flyrod photos need apply!

Mississippi Marsh Redfish

Rick Lauman guided me through the Mississippi Marsh in his hand-made custom flats boat this weekend and I had one great time. See the article link for a description of this trip.

Bill Maily with 21lb Pickwick striper

Rick Lauman lands Redzilla!

If you came to the July meeting you will remember Rick Lauman was a guide that came to visit us and gave us a little pitch about his guiding. Mostly what Rick did was work us up with stories of giant redfish in the Biloxi Marsh. Rick "hung out" with us all the way to the "meeting" after the meeting which is customarily held in the parking lot. He must have influenced some members quite a bit because when we met up for the GI trip there were some enormous crab flys that were tied "because Rick said the big fish like big crabs". Well if you check out the photo below you will know that Rick was telling us the truth about monster redfish in the Biloxi Marsh (and apparently not pulling our legs about the big crabs either!). Rick caught this 36lb "Redzilla" the last weekend in August. I just got this updated photo from Rick and he provided the following re-cap:
The day I caught the 36, I was fishing with a writer friend of mine. I poled him around for 2 hours and he got shots at over 20 fish over 20 pounds. Just one hook up and it got off. The fish were acting a little crazy. As luck would have it when my turn came I got on the front and within 5 minutes a pair of slobs swam up and I fed the big one. The fight was about 5 minutes on an 8wt on 20# tippet. He ate a new crab ive been tying- super big profile but still small enough to throw on the 3wt. I had been fishing a 6# IGFA set up and had just switched so we could boat a big fish to take pictures. Dont know if they are going to give me the record as I released the fish after weighing, measuring, photo'ing him. Current state rules require killing the fish to submit and at this point I just cant do that. The guys at Dept of Marine Rewsources were really cool about it and said they were going to propose changes to be more similar to IGFA so we can release these big fish and still get credit.

2005 Sheepshead Record

A photo of the current MS Sheepshead fly-fishing record found on The Chandeleur Outfitters site photos page

Tommy Shropshire with MS River Cat caught while "Ballooning" with a Flyrod!

GI Weekend Redfish

This was one of two legal reds caught at GI Weekend in July. This one hit a green "Lefleur's Charlie". I saw him bust the surface then used Kirby Lacour's trick of sneaking up on him coming straight in to the sun to keep from making a shadow. Thanks Kirby, I owe this fish to you. I met Kirby when he gave a program at the Memphis Fly Fishing show. Kirby guides in the marshes East of NOLA 504-464-1697

Fishing the rock

This is our esteemed President fishing for white bass and stripers. Note the location of his flyline, those darn fish will stack in one spot and that was it. I know, I tried all the other white water and all the fish that day were caught by that rock.

Calling Panther Bass

Albert Wood with a bass he caught at Calling Panther while casting a bream fly. Note the trees, that lake hates flyrods.

Prez at the Rez May 2006

Mississloppy White Bass June 2006

Mississloppy Striped Bass June 2006

Mississloppy Skipjack

Skipjack caught in April, see ole man river in the background. No stripers caught, did see one big one chasing shad. The wind was ripping across, the river. I had a Yankee uncle that used to refer to our state as Missisloppy to tease his nephews, but that weekend, the Mississippi was the Mississloppy. Water level was right, clarity was good, but that wind, oh that wind...

State Record for Long Nose Gar, 11.42lbs

Bee Lake, April 1, 2006.

Bee Lake Slab

This is one of many caught at Bee Lake on April 1, by Albert Wood. The spawn is on!

Calling Panther Bream

Don't miss out on the big bream at Calling Panther, but practice your roll cast because there are trees everywhere!

Now that's what I'm talking about!

A mess of nice bream from Calling Panther. All fly caught, makes'em even sweeter when you fry'em up.

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