Let me encourage a little tourism back in the home state. The fish on the left weighed in at 4 lbs. No, that's not me in the photo, which came off the MS Fish and Wildlife website. The fish was caught this year from Sardis Lake in north MS. Sardis is a flood control lake that contains the drainage of the Tallahatchie River (remember Billy Joe McAlister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge). The Tallahatchie and Yalobusha join to form the Yazoo River.

The current world record for white crappie is from the lake just south of Sardis, Enid Lake, 5# 3 oz.

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