Location: Highway 12
Time: 1:00PM-6:00PM
Air temp: 65 degrees
Water temp: 65 degrees
Clarity: Clear
Visibility: 4'
Wind: NW 20
Sky: Clear
Winning tactic: Slow roll jigs 10' deep in 15' of water just before the channel dropoff.
Catch: 30 crappie and a few whites
So, Robert always comes to me and at work and says "LETS GO FISHING!!!" and I say "I can't, blah blah blah". This day the roles were reversed and he said "Let me check with the Misses. Leave at 1?" Off we went. We planned on trolling the whole day, so we stopped by the bait store and got a few chartreuse crainkbaits. We got out and started trolling around about 10' down in 20'-30' of water. We picked up a few whites in the basin and a few baby stripers. As we made the pass over the honey hole I saw a tone of fish holding on the brushpiles. I said "We have to stop and fish this, I bet it's crappie". He said "The crappie are in 2' of water, that's where we caught them a few weeks ago at Hickory." We anchored up and started throwing out little jigs. We picked up a couple crappie and were very pleased. We had no idea what was in store. After being anchored up for about 30 minutes, we figured out that they wanted pink and chartreuse and commenced the slaying. Getting our limit was the last thing on our mind, but after a while we realized that we should probably keep track, so we guessed about 20 and kept on catching. The crappie were all under us in about a 80 yard area, surfacing sometimes like whites. After we thought we had our limit we did a body count and landed right on 2 limits so we headed back to the house while the bite was still full throttle. I can think of only one other time I have quit fishing when the bite was full on, and it was because we knew we were going to be up until 3:00 in the morning cleaning fish. I have to say it was a good day.
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| Here are some white bass relating to a little log on the bottom. |
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| I don't know what these were, we didn't catch any. |
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| And the angels rejoiced. |
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| These crappie were under us for several hours. |
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| They liked being just above the ledge. |
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| One of the first ones, we thought that was the highlight of the day. |
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| More than half we knew were keepers when they were still 15' out from the boat. |
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| Hopefully his grandpa comes by to visit next time. This jig did most of the damage for the day. |
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| Miranda got me that fish cleaning table, and it has been awesome. The cooler used to hold her grandpa's crappie years ago. |
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