Although Larry Rea is probably best remembered in the area as the preps editor at the Memphis Commercial Appeal from 1967 to 1988, he has also been the Mid-South radio voice for outdoor news locally, regionally and nationally since 2001.
Outdoors with Larry Rea will now be available throughout much of West Tennessee in a partnership between Entercom Broadcasting and The Wireless Group, Inc., based in Brownsville.
Outdoors with Larry Rea will be broadcast on WNWS-AM (1520)/WTBG-FM (95.3) in Brownsville, known as Brownsville Radio, which is streamed 24/7 at brownsvilleradio.com.
WNWS-FM in Jackson, known as NEWS/TALK 101.5 and is also streamed 24/7 at WNWS.COM.
Each Saturday, the show will air in Brownsville from 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., and in Jackson from 6:30 a.m. to 8 a.m.
Carlton Veirs, president of the Wireless Group, Inc., said, “Thousands of our listeners are passionate about hunting and fishing, so Larry’s show is just perfect for Saturday mornings. We’re excited to add it to our local programming lineup.”
Dan Barron, vice president/general manager for Entercom Broadcasting in Memphis said passionate hunters and fishermen are in for a special treat.
“After more than 16 years of broadcasting Outdoors with Larry Rea in Memphis and the Mid-South, it’s exciting to see the expansion of this show,” Barron said.
The program, which airs from 6 a.m. to 7:30 a.m., on ESPN-AM 790 in Memphis, has won numerous awardd through the Tennessee Outdoors Writers Association and the 13-state Southeastern Outdoor Press Association, and it has been recognized several times by environmental organizations.
Fishing Report
Gibson County Lake
Water temperature: 40 degrees. Water color: muddy
Bass: “Fishing is very slow,” Trenton’s Brent Smith said. “A few bass are being caught in deep water off of brush piles using a blue and black pig and jig. One eight-pounder was caught using a soft plastic on a Ned rig.”
The Ned rig is simply a small chunk of soft plastic stick bait (think Senko or Charlie’s Worms Salt Bang-O) threaded onto an ultralight 1/16 to 1/8 ounce jighead.
Pickwick Lake
Water Temperature: 47 degrees. Elevation: 410 feet
Bass: “I have been on a few fishing trips above and below the Dam lately, and while some trips have produced big fish and a few small ones, some trips have not produced any bass at all, but we are likely to catch some other species,” Clagett Talley said. “Grassy areas in the lake are still producing good fish at times, although the grass is dying, right now.”
Clagett, a tour guide from Savannah, said Texas rigged Stike King tube baits and jigs have accounted for most of the fish that’s being reeled in.
“Strike King had a color called “Crazy Craw,” and it has been a good color for me as well as green pumpkin,” Clagett said. “The weather being colder may make bass fishing tough over the next few weeks, but this is still a time of year where you are likely to catch the biggest fish of the year.”
Crappie: “We’re starting to hear a few good crappie stories,” Clagett said. “Fish in 15-to-18-feet of water in creeks with a jig and minnow.”
Stripers: “I am still selling a few striper baits, but when I ask the fishermen if they are catching any stripers, they say they are not,” Clagett said. “If I were to take someone striper fishing right now. I would depend on a deep-diving Strike King Series 6XD crankbait to keep the trip interesting.
“Although I know you can have a good day on live bait and jigs drifting right now, I would not try it first.”
Catfish: “After talking to a few catfishermen while I was on a sauger fishing trip, I was told that catfishing is still productive right now,” Clagett said. “And after a few slow days of sauger fishing, I think I would have been better off cat fishing. Most catfishermen are using worms bought out of bait stores in deep water.”
Sauger: “I love to eat sauger like everyone else, but it has been a little slow over the last couple of weeks,” Clagett said. “I have been fishing with a plastic grub on a sauger jig bouncing it in 50 feet of water.”
Want more from the “Mayor of Pickwick Lake?” Give Clagett Talley a call (731) 607-5266, or visit him online – www.pickwickareaguide.com
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